If you think that vitamins, particularly antioxidants such as A, C and E help maximise your workouts, think again. There’s emerging evidence that antioxidant supplements may adversly effect: Insulin benefits of exercise “One previous small study found that trained and untrained people who dose up on antioxidant supplements impair important exercise training adaptations such as […]
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What are the greatest melanoma myths? We ask Pascale Guitera, dermatologist at Melanoma Institute Australia. Myth #1: The worst melanomas are the very dark ones. Truth: Variation of colour is actually the thing to look out for, meaning if a mole has two or more different colours – pink, blue, brown, etc. Bad melanomas are not […]
We chat to our January cover model, Emily Skye about what she loves about exercising, how she relaxes and a day in her shoes. MOVE I love how exercising makes me feel – mentally and physically. When you reach a point where you’re happy with your fitness level, you can just maintain it, which is […]
We chat to clinical nutritionist Jess Sepel on how to stay on track this FebFast – are you up for the challenge? The festive season is over, the January hangover has slowly subsided and it’s time to rekindle the healthy routine you’ve been avoiding so far in 2016. Lacking motivation? The annual Febfast event encourages […]
What you do during the day, not just in the hours before bed, determines whether you’ll go straight to sleep. Ditch the macchiato, cupcake and Thai “Avoid caffeine in the afternoon and avoid large quantities of food, particularly heavy, fatty foods immediately prior to sleep that may make you feel uncomfortable and prevent sleep,” says […]
Controlled breathing – a technique designed to slow your breathing – can reduce stress, fast. Psychologist Damien Adler, from Victoria’s Mind Life Clinic, says it works because when we get stressed, we start to breathe faster. While in the old times this would have been helpful because it would have given us the energy to […]
Retrain your brain to decrease those unwanted cravings with these 6 tips. If your food choices disappoint your tastebuds, you’re more likely to resort to an unhealthy sweet treat to make up for feeling deprived. Here’s how you can reduce those hunger pangs. 1. Choose low-GI foods “Foods with a lower glycaemic index (GI) of […]
Before you jump on the detox bandwagon, it’s important to look into the potential side affects to a full body cleanse. Here, the experts help us unpack the pros and cons to this weight loss phenomenon. Starving yourself is not the way to go Most detoxes promote a reduced calorie intake, which can quickly turn […]
Travel can seriously mess with key mechanisms of oral contraceptives such as The Pill, rendering travellers susceptible to unplanned pregnancy. The most direct way they fail is through malabsorption due to travel maladies that induce diarrhoea or vomiting. Antimalarial doxycycline and high doses of vitamin C found in some jet lag pills can also inhibit […]
You think you have leaky gut because you’re bloated, gassy, achy and crampy. We ask three doctors to define this ‘grey area of medicine’. What is leaky gut? Leaky gut is still a grey area of medicine. The term has become popular in the last 10 or 20 years to explain how gut substances literally […]