Just a few short days after we posted about Harper’s Bazaar magazine celebrating the natural body with photoshop free images, it seems that some industrious photoshopper has decided to take the photo-retouching issue into his or her own …more »
Just in case you had any doubts about how serious a problem obesity is becoming, not only in America but all over the world, figures released by the NHS yesterday show that the number of people admitted to hospital because …more »
With the news of breakthroughs in the science of marathon running still ringing in our ears, new research cautions that newer runners who are out of shape could actually be damaging their hearts by pushing themselves too …more »
“The wall” or “the bonk” as it’s affectionately and slightly bafflingly known, is the bane of many distance runners’ lives. It is a state of extreme fatigue, where the body has run out of it’s preferred energy source (glycogen) and …more »
Damn I love the Onion. You want to know what the sad thing is? Even though they make up pretty much everything that’s written on their website, this is probably completely true.
So today a guy asked me what to do to strengthen his back. He’d bent over to pick something up during the weekend only to discover that his body had no intention of letting him stand back …more »
Originally developed as a way of working out which foods would be safest for diabetics, the Glycemic Index (GI) is a way of measuring the rate at which carbohydrates are metabolised by your body and is one of my favourite ways to help people lose weight. Carry on past the break for the low-down…





















