Alternative medicine should be considered before reaching for the pill packet, says Zoe Sheridan. I think every physical disease has an emotional or a mental element to it. For example, cancer eats at your healthy blood cells and that also causes something to eat away at you — whether in the form of anger or […]

Biggest Loser contestant Jules Condon talks to Woman’s Day about her time on the show. **Starting weight: 126.5kg Exit weight: 106.9kg** Your heart condition, atrial fibrillation, is the reason you had to leave The Biggest Loser. How did you feel about leaving in this way given you’ve lived with the condition for two years? I […]

By Judy Davie It’s easy to be confused with the mixed messages banded around about healthy eating. I have a simple rule: if it existed in nature 100 years ago then it’s real food and should be eaten. If you believe “in nature lies the answer” then you should be able to accept this rule. […]

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 […]