Gwyneth Paltrow has revealed that she avoids feeding her children carbohydrates, including pasta, bread and rice, because she believes it is bad for them. The 40-year-old mother of Apple, 8, and Moses, 6, who has just launched her low-carb gluten-free cookbook It’s All Good, says, “Every single nutritionist, doctor and health-conscious person I have ever […]

Australians undergoing IVF and competing for donor eggs that are in short supply will soon be able to import eggs from overseas donors. A groundbreaking deal facilitated by the Monash IVF clinic gives Australian women using assisted reproduction access to the US-based World Egg Bank — the largest commercial frozen egg bank in the world. […]

You know that lack of sleep is making you tired but scientists say it could also make you gain weight. A US study which observed participants who slept for just five hours each night found that they gained more weight over a week, and when they returned to adequate sleeping patterns, they shed weight. Researchers […]

Melbourne researchers have made a significant breakthrough in the fight against Alzheimer’s. The team from Austin Hospital can now diagnose the condition 15 years before symptoms develop, offering hope dementia might one day be avoided. Researchers tracked the build-up of a protein called amyloid, which is created when brain membranes are replaced. In healthy people, […]

Only a few weeks into the full CrossFit swing of things and I find out about something ominously called Testing Week. I soon learned that this is a really important part of what they do at CrossFit Athletic. It’s used to give them vital feedback on how we’re all progressing. Since I had never completed […]

This week my dad emailed me a photo from the archives of me with the weight of the world on my shoulders. I’m guessing this was me about age 6, just coming to terms with my destiny as a future superhero. I took a few decades off from my training but now I’m truly back […]

The Aussie singer is amazed at how little it took for the kilos to simply fall away. Mahalia Barnes can’t help but smile over her latest weight loss victory. Just four months ago the thought of buying a new swimming costume would have inspired the sort of fear many women experience when they walk into […]

Nineteen years after her diagnosis, ovarian cancer survivor Margaret Rose told an Ovarian Cancer Awareness Day leaders forum today the reason the disease isn’t talked about as much as other women’s health issues is because “not many of us survive”. An average of 1200 Australian women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year, and of […]

She may have swapped her neon Lycra outfits for a simple tracksuit and traded in her bouncy workouts for some simpler moves, but at 75, exercise guru Jane Fonda isn’t ready to hang up her sweatbands just yet. After bouncing back from a knee and hip replacement as well as recent back surgery, the fitness […]

Following the birth of her daughter, Blue Ivy, 13 months ago, Beyonce Knowles stepped out looking better than ever. So how did she do it? Her trainer has revealed the secrets behind the singer’s post-baby body. After gaining 25kg during pregnancy, the 31-year-old sought help from exercise physiologist and trainer Marco Borges. He instructed the […]