Want to know how to put a stop to crying when you don’t want to or curing the hiccups? Woman’s Day health expert Jane Worthington has the answers! Swallowing a teaspoon of sugar can work, reports the British Medical Journal. Or take a series of deep breaths and hold for 5-10 seconds without exhaling. It […]

It's 10pm on a Friday night. You're home alone, slouched on the couch and armed with a tub of choc-chip ice cream. Why? Because you're upset.

If you think taking vitamin C will stop you getting the flu, think again. In fact when if comes to taking vitamins, an Australian dietician suggests you may be taking more than you need to. Accredited practising dietician Lisa Renn says if you eat a healthy and balanced diet there is not a great need […]

July 19-25 is Wee Week (www.kidney.org.au), and — seeing as one in five women will suffer at least one urinary tract infection (UTI), or cystitis, every year — it’s a good time to learn how to prevent or at least shorten the infection, and ease the awful pain (not for nothing do sufferers describe it […]

Ask Magda Szubanski her greatest accomplishment of the past year and the answer won’t be losing 25 kilos and five dress sizes, a feat which has arguably saved her life. Not that she isn’t thrilled with her weight loss – she is, and rightfully so. It’s just that Magda knows that her real success isn’t […]

With a new celebrity diet on the front of every second magazine and a seemingly endless line of new weight loss supplements promising unbelievable results, it’s hard to escape stories of amazing weight loss. There are many parts that play a role in successful, long-term weight loss and finetuning these components in our lives is […]

Australian adults eat an average of 8g to 10g of salt each day, which is equivalent to more than one-and-a-half teaspoons! The body only needs about 1g of salt to function — anything extra is simply increasing our risk of high blood pressure and other adverse health outcomes. Research shows that reducing our salt intake […]