This month we asked sports medicine expert Dr George Janko, McKinnon Sports Medicine for his team’s top lifestyle and fitness tips for surviving this silly season. Increase that training – whatever it may be.Let’s up the ante! Push harder, faster, stronger, and longer! Do something each day even if only a brisk walk. Remember getting […]

Catherine Zeta-Jones has one of the most enviable figures in Hollywood but unlike many other stars, she doesn’t have a personal trainer or weight-loss coach. Revealing her slimming secrets in the December issue of InStyle magazine, the 43-year-old says she has enough determination within herself. “I don’t have a trainer. Crazy, right?” she tells the […]

The Sunrise sweetheart steals the show in a slinky scarlet frock after a red-hot makeover. She was rubbing shoulders with the likes of heart-throb Hugh Jackman, but last week, when popular Sunrise co-host Melissa Doyle stepped out to a charity gala in Melbourne, all eyes were on her.Looking more like a movie star than a […]

Woman’s Day‘s Karen Birkemoe has taken on a 12-week CrossFit workout challenge to shed some unwanted kilos. Here she reveals the events of her first week. WEEK ONE Confronting is a good word to describe my first week. I knew from looking in the mirror that things were getting out of hand with my weight. […]

A new study of Australian children has found that almost 20 percent of kids are overweight or obese by the time they start school. The study of more than 1200 children aged up to five conducted by the University of Sydney found that the biggest factor contributing to children’s shocking weight gain was their home […]

Want to kick the habit, but don’t know where to start? We get you off on the right track. Name: Woman’s Day staffer Jen Goodall, 25. Reason for quitting: “I was noticing dry skin wrinkles, and I love running but knew smoking slowed me down. My biggest fear, though, was lung cancer, which has now […]

Are you sick of the same old gym routine that delivers the same results? New training trend Crossfit may be just what you need. Woman’s Day’s Karen Birkemoe has taken on the challenge. THE CHALLENGE Every so often an exercise program arrives on the scene that everyone is talking about. CrossFit seems to be just […]

Jessica Simpson’s baby-weight battle has been highly publicised, but the slimmed down first-time mum says she’s never going to be a supermodel and won’t let criticism get her down. The 32-year-old has successfully shed most of her baby weight, losing 30kg in five months in a “healthy and realistic” way. Jessica reportedly gained more than […]

Kids who were popular in high school earn more money as adults, a new study has found. US researchers from the National Bureau of Economic research found that teenagers from “cool groups” earned 10 percent more than “social rejects” and two percent more than classmates with the average number of friends. Related: Does Facebook cause […]

Following the release of shocking figures that more than half of the UK’s hospital admissions for eating disorders were under-20 and some of those under-10, social media has copped much of the blame for contributing to the development of eating disorders in “the Facebook generation”. Teen and pre-teen eating disorders are on the rise with […]