What are Phytochemicals? Phytochemicals are partly responsible for vegetables’ protective benefits, helping to improve your overall health! Did you know that it is these phytochemicals that give vegetables their colours and each colour holds their own, unique health benefits? (See below for the 5 colour groups and some examples of vegetables they include). Chose vegetables […]

Question: Are fresh vegetables better than frozen ones? Answer: Ideally, we would all be growing fresh vegetables from our flourishing vegetable patch in the back garden. For most of us, this scene is unfortunately far from reality, instead relying on our local supermarket for fresh and even frozen vegetables. This week we aim to clarify […]

There must be something good in the air Down-Under — according to a recent survey, at least two-thirds of Australians believe they hold the key to being happy. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) tested 22,000 people as part of its 2007/08 National Health Survey and found that around a third of Australians exhibit some […]

Julia Roberts has been branded one of the bravest ladies in Hollywood after brandishing her ‘mummy midriff’ in a skimpy bikini in Hawaii recently. View our picture gallery featuring our favourite heroines of real women On holiday with her husband, cinematographer Daniel Moder, 40, and their children, the 41-year-old Pretty Woman (1990) star showed her […]

When Magda Szubanski revealed her amazing weight loss on The Weekly’s cover, she inspired the nation. Here she shares an open letter with us all. Hi Guys It’s Magda here. I would like to thank all the Weekly readers who entered the competition for a chance to meet me, and see me as Big Julie […]

As they lounge on a crumpled doona, eating choc-chip cookies, Kathy Lette chats with her friend, pop princess Kylie Minogue, about home, hearth and her latest venture. In pictures: Kylie Minogue throughout her career Kylie Minogue loves to turn the other chic — she is constantly reinventing herself. The woman is style personified. I first […]

Mum is sweetness and light, daughter is hard rock. Yet, writes Wendy Squires, despite their musical differences, Olivia Newton-John and her daughter Chloe Lattanzi are each other’s greatest fans. Wendy Squires takes us behind the scenes for our feature story on Olivia Newton-John As the fading sun casts a golden glow on Los Angeles’ famous […]

After the heartache of her cancelled wedding with Marty Pask, a new-look Leisel Jones is on a journey of self-discovery away from the pool, writes Rose Fydler. If it’s a woman’s right to change her hairstyle after a romantic break-up, then recent singleton Leisel Jones – a platinum blonde turned sultry brunette – has clearly […]

Download your exclusive first chapter from My Husband’s Sweethearts by Bridget Asher here. About this book: Lucy Shoreman discovers in one fell swoop that not only has her husband Artie been cheating on her, but that his heart is failing and he’s dying. So in a drunken moment she takes his little black book, and […]

About this book: Egypt, 1977: Oliver, an English geophysicist expert in oil exploration, finds himself unwillingly swept up in a world of political and mystical sabotage after his wife, Isabella, a marine archaeologist, drowns while recovering a mysterious ancient astrolabe she’d been searching for all her life. About the author: Tobsha Learner was born and […]