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August on the road with The Weekly

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Catch up with the road train as it heads from the Top End across Queensland.

Coming to Cairns

Catch the Nine Network’s Today show team in action on Friday, August 31, from 6am on the Cairns Esplanade. From 9am, The Weekly team will entertain you with food demonstrations, beauty makeovers, fashion parades, interactive finance workshops, important health information and a live performance by country singer Felicity Urquhart and others.

A helping hand

The Commonwealth Bank, as part of its Community Spirit program, has donated to a charity in each of the towns the road train has visited, contributing more than $40,000 since January. The road train has also teamed up with the National Breast Cancer Centre to provide information on breast and ovarian cancer, as well as supporting Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea, Relay for Life, Clean Up Australia Day and Smile Day. We’ve also been joined by Lions, Country Women’s Association and Rotary groups around the country, which have provided barbecues and morning teas.

What’s on: Young Australian of the year

Visit the road train in Cairns to see Young Australian of the Year, Tania Major, who will talk candidly about her experiences and the issues facing the welfare of young indigenous Australians. To make a nomination for the Australian of the Year 2008, visit a Commonwealth Bank branch or go to www.commbank.com.au/aoy. Nominations close August 31. The Commonwealth Bank is proud to be the major sponsor of the Australian of the Year Awards, helping to recognise those in our community who make us proud.

Welcome aboard!

The road train is on the move again from Darwin, heading through Queensland to the coast. By the end of August, it’ll be in Cairns welcoming some special guests.

  • Mount Isa, Sunday, August 19

11am-1pm: Mount Isa Civic Centre lawns, West Street.

  • Longreach, Wednesday, August 22

11am-1pm: Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame, Landsborough Highway, Longreach.

  • Emerald, Saturday, August 25

10am-1pm: Under the giant sunflower painting at Moreton Park, corner of Capricorn Highway and Dundas Street.

  • Port Douglas, Wednesday, August 29

10am-1pm: Market Park.

  • Cairns, Friday, August 31

6am-9am: Today show, then The Weekly team, 9am-3pm, on the Esplanade.

For details of road train locations and times, visit our website at www.aww.com.au/roadtrain or email [email protected]

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Stir fries

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By Judy Davie

**”My family enjoys a lot of Asian dishes. I like to stir fry meat or chicken and vegies and usually add a pre made sauce with rice. As I’m trying to lose weight I don’t eat the rice but are the sauces OK?”

— Diana**

The problem with many of these sauces is that those with a low KJ value typically contain high amounts of salt (sodium) and the other sauces with less salt get their flavour from sugar and usually contain more kilojoules.

For the health of your whole family it’s important to minimize the amount of salt in their diet and for you to achieve your weight loss goal you have to decrease the number of KJ you consume. It’s too easy to ladle these sauces over food — doubling the energy intake with one nudge of the elbow.

Try to create more flavour from the food ingredients themselves so there’s less need to disguise their taste with an overpowering sauce. It’s easy to copy the fresh ingredients from the ingredient list of the sauces you use. In Asian dishes it’s likely you’ll need garlic, ginger, chilli and herbs including basil and coriander. All these fresh ingredients added to the stir fry will add flavour with fewer Kj than those found in sauces with added starch thickeners and sugar.

Lemon, lime and rice vinegar (found in Asian stores) are also great in Asian dishes and reduced sodium soy sauce combined with lemon is delicious. Make a lower KJ version of sweet chilli sauce by mixing vinegar with a little chilli and a teaspoon of sugar or honey. The beauty of making your own is you control the ingredients.

Watch out for pre made curry sauces with coconut cream which are very high in kilojoules. A better alternative is to use curry paste, a low fat yoghurt (stirred in at the end of cooking) and a teaspoon of dessicated coconut to serve.

Always check the labels before you buy a sauce and check that the recommended serving size is realistic. The table below gives you a guide to the most popular sauces.

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Woman’s Day Beauty Editor, Mary Zavaglia answers your beauty questions.

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Trend alert: Pale lips

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Hollywood’s A-list celebrities have ditched sexy red and crimson pouts for nude lips in shades of beige, pink and toffee. Here’s our guide to wearing cool pale tones successfully.

  1. Prep lips — Applying pale colours to dry lips can make them look even drier and unattractive, so exfoliate and moisturise lips before applying colour.

  2. Colour code — If you have a pale, milky complexion choose beige tones with a rosy reflect. If you have an olive or Asian complexion, go for butterscotch, toffee and plum nudes. Finish with a slick of gloss.

  3. If you can’t find the perfect pale lip colour, apply your normal concealer over your lips, then apply a clear gloss. The natural colour of your lips will come through for a perfect shade.

  4. Keep your colour on longer by outlining lips with a nude liner. Blend the edges with a cotton bud, then apply lip colour. Blot with a translucent powder to lock in colour.

  5. Applying a colour that’s too matte can be ageing and unattractive. If you’ve made the wrong choice, mix a little clear gloss with your lipstick before applying.

  6. Remember the golden rule — pale lips need to be teamed with smoky eyes and lashings of mascara. Blush will also prevent you looking washed out.

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Every week Dr Chris Brown answers your pet questions — submit your own or browse our archives.

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Our miracle hospital wedding

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The groom was struck by a flesh-eating disease that cost him his leg and almost his life, but it was no barrier to true love…

The week before their wedding day, Andrew Ballantyne and his fiancée Esther Jacobson were like any other couple eagerly anticipating their big day. But their world was turned upside down when Andrew fell victim to a rare flesh-eating disease that took his leg and almost took his life.

Andrew, 26, had always pictured himself standing at the altar waiting for Esther, the love of his life, to walk towards him. Instead he found himself exchanging vows lying on what had almost been his death-bed.

Not that he’s complaining. Andrew knows the fact that he made it to his wedding at all is nothing short of a miracle.

Just seven days earlier, doctors had told his loved ones to prepare for the worst, as Andrew’s chances of survival were minimal. All thanks to a rare illness Esther, 26, says took everyone completely by surprise.

“He began vomiting on Friday morning and we went to a GP, who diagnosed a combination of food poisoning and the flu. At lunchtime, he started complaining about a sore leg. I just assumed he’d knocked it.”

His condition rapidly deteriorated and Andrew called an ambulance. But before it had even arrived a worried Esther drove him to hospital, where doctors thought the rash on his leg might be deep vein thrombosis (DVT).

“The scan cleared him of DVT and he was put on antibiotics, which ultimately saved his life,” Esther says. “But the rash on his leg had grown dramatically in size and one alert doctor realised the significant dangers straight away.

“An MRI confirmed they were dealing with a rare flesh-eating disease called necrotising fasciitis, which destroys the skin and muscle by releasing toxins into the body. The surgeon told Andrew that if his leg was not removed he would die…”

For the full story, see this week’s Woman’s Day (on-sale July 23)

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Skinny Posh’s life falls apart

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Now in LA, Posh hits her lowest, and skinniest, point yet.

Victoria Beckham is distraught that she has become an an object of ridicule in her new home of LA, with critics panning her reality TV special Coming To America.

“Victoria and I rushed into this,” her hubby David has confided to a friend. “If only we’d waited a couple of years.”

Posh was reduced to tears when the show was savaged by critics and viewers, who labelled her “overhyped” and “overbleached”.

Friends back in the UK now fear Posh is pushing herself towards collapse, especially as she tightens her already extreme diet.

“The more her life gets out of control, the more she wants to control what she eats,” reveals one insider. “We’re all worried the Hollywood [dress size] 000-obsession will have a terrible effect on her, even worse than when she was at home…”

For the full story, see this week’s Woman’s Day (on-sale July 23)

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Kylie back with Olivier

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Kylie Minogue is back with her ex-boyfriend Olivier Martinez.

The former couple, who split in February after Olivier was linked to model Sarai Givati, have been on a series of intimate dates, and they were recently spotted kissing outside a cafe near the 41-year-old actor’s home in Paris.

“Kylie has made regular visits to Olivier’s home over the past few weeks. And recently their relationship has begun to develop,” says a friend of Olivier’s. “Since their split they’ve talked to each other on the phone constantly, but it’s only in the past few weeks that they’ve started meeting again.”

“Things started to progress when Kylie flew over for a hospital appointment,” says the friend.

They went for a heart-to-heart lunch and thrashed out a few issues. “Olivier was keen to discuss the possibility of patching things up with Kylie after realising that she was the love of his life…”

For the full story, see this week’s Woman’s Day (on-sale July 23)

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Michael J. Fox: ‘I feel really lucky’

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Bobbing like a cork buffeted by rolling waters, he surges into the room, his elfin body alive with motion. Arms, legs, hands, fingers, feet all are moving ceaselessly, but each operates in a different pattern, speed and rhythm, as if commanded by separate control centres engaged in competition. That famous face, beloved by audiences for more than two decades, remains boyish, but it’s clear that being Michael J. Fox is a challenging role these days.

He has spent the past 16 years coping with Parkinson’s disease — a “progressive, degenerative and incurable neurological disorder”, as he puts it in his best-selling 2002 memoir, Lucky Man. Despite his illness, that choice of title reflects the 46-year-old’s philosophy of life.

“I don’t want to be glib about it, because I know this is really hard for a lot of people, and it’s hard for me physically, and emotionally sometimes,” Michael acknowledges. “But it’s become clear to me that I’m really lucky. The stuff I have — my wife Tracy [Pollan], my kids, my career, the experiences I’ve had, the effect I’ve had — I’ve had a lot for one human being. The shaking and the not always being able to do what I want to do, it’s not that bad.”

“I don’t feel anger, I don’t feel fear. I have a full life. I don’t look at the world through Parkinson’s-coloured glasses. I look at the world the way I’ve always looked at the world. I feel really lucky,” Michael says.

Parkinson’s most often afflicts the elderly, but Michael — who’s dad to Sam, 18, twins Aquinnah and Schuyler, 11, and Esme, 6 — is among the 5-10 per cent of patients who develop symptoms before 40.

“The young-onset community has a unique responsibility to use our energy to be proactive,” says Michael, whose privileged circumstances have also heightened his sense of obligation. “If I didn’t work again, it would be OK, and that’s huge. My situation is unique. I don’t have to worry about health insurance or losing my job or the other big issues that most people with Parkinson’s have to deal with. So it’s freed me up to do this stuff.”

“This stuff” is his typically self-deprecating way of describing the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, which he founded in 2000. Since then, the New York-based organisation has raised and distributed $108million — a considerable achievement by any measure, although Michael is modest in describing his contribution. “I’m not so much a philanthropist as an encourager of philanthropy,” he says…

For the full interview see this week’s Woman’s Day (on-sale July 23)

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