By Judy Davie **”I desperately need to lose weight. I was put on high blood pressure tablets five months ago and I have put on 10kgs. My height is 168cm and I weigh 80kgs. I am a very plain eater and do not like anything spicy. Please help!” — Jane** While high blood pressure may […]

Biggest Loser contestant Marty Barrett talks to Woman’s Day about his time on the show. **Starting weight: 160.6kg Elimination weight: 130.1kg** How was your time in the Whitehouse? The last two weeks I shut down and this is something Gerard did a lot of. I was getting upset about the rumours that were going around […]

Let’s take action before the world becomes full of Paris Hilton look-alikes, pleads Libbi Gorr. Body image seems such a shallow topic. We spend so much time thinking about our bodies, worrying about our bodies, dieting, exercising. There are so many other things in the world that we could be applying our minds to. But […]

About six months out from our wedding I started to think more carefully about the incidental food I ate every day. Weight loss was not really my primary goal (I was 65kg), but I was hoping (with regular gentle exercise) to get a bit fitter and more toned for the big day. By cutting out […]

By Annette Campbell So, you’re way too busy to get to the gym? There’s the long list of household chores that always need doing, as well as the kids who need to be delivered to and from school and sport and friends… The list goes on and hardly leaves time for any recreational exercise. But […]

Biggest Loser contestant Gerard Fleischer talks to Woman’s Day about his time on the show. **Starting weight: 133.5kg Elimination weight: 116.4kg** How was your Biggest Loser experience? I’m rapt to be out of the house. I had a fantastic time but I’m a person that when one door closes another door opens. I don’t look […]

The paranoia of a few shouldn’t prevent refugees settling here, says Mary Moody. The way we have treated refugees in the past is heartless. I spend a lot of time travelling around the world and it’s sometimes embarrassing to be an Australian. With the Tampa incident, we more or less turned away a boat full […]

Biggest Loser contestant P’eta Phelan talks to Woman’s Day about her time on the show. **Starting weight: 131.6kg Elimination weight: 126.3kg** How did you feel about being a replacement contestant? When I was told I wasn’t in, I’d said to myself, “Thank God I didn’t get in”. There was a part of me that wanted […]

One of the complaints I often hear from people trying to lose weight is that while there’s diversity in a diet, with interesting and different meals each day, it’s just too hard to organise. When we examine the majority of people’s eating habits, it’s typical to eat the same or similar meals many days a […]

By Judy Davie “Can you please provide me some information on how diet can affect children suffering concentration and learning problems and with ADD? What foods should be avoided and what foods added to assist?” Research has shown that a diet free of processed foods with additives can have a significant effect on children with […]