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Re-energise your sex drive

Re-energise your sex drive

Lost your libido? Here's how to regain your sexual energy.
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Top fitness foods for women

Top fitness foods for women

Wondering what the best foods are to keep your work-outs working well?
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Simple solutions for weight gain

Simple solutions for weight gain

Do those extra kilos have a habit of slowly creeping up on you?
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Annoying weight loss tips

Annoying weight loss tips

What are the most infuriating health and weight loss tips going around?
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Christmas challenge: party foods to avoid

Christmas challenge: party foods to avoid

It's the silly season! So what party foods are kinder on the waistline?
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How to lose weight at work

How to lose weight at work

Sitting on your backside all day makes a day in the office a dangerous affair for the waistline.
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Do you know your diets A-Z?

Do you know your diets A-Z?

From the nutritionally sound to the utterly bonkers, diets are constantly in and out of fashion, changing, evolving and being torn to shreds or credited by...
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Low-alcohol wine

Low-alcohol wine

The advent of low-alcohol wine varieties poses the question: Why is it we drink it in the first place? If you enjoy a tipple but value your health,...
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How to eat like a superhero

How to eat like a superhero

If Superman and Wonder Woman existed in real life what would be on their menu?
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Ricki Lake's battle with dieting

Ricki Lake's battle with dieting

Ricki Lake, like Oprah Winfrey, is a celebrity who has consistently battled with weight throughout her life. At her lowest point, Lake weighed 270 lbs but...
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Celebrity diet secrets are bogus: expert

Celebrity diet secrets are bogus: expert

Green tea supplements, acupuncture and natural diet pills have all been hailed by Hollywood stars as the secret to staying slim.
Diet mixers get you more drunk: study

Diet mixers get you more drunk: study

Mixing spirits with diet soft drink makes the alcohol more potent than mixing with sugary soft drinks, according to a US study.
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You haven't heard of the Paleolithic diet?

You haven't heard of the Paleolithic diet?

The Paleo diet is followed by many celebrities and in many ways resembles the Atkins and other low-carb regimens.
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Three weight-loss rules that work

Three weight-loss rules that work

You’ll lose more kilos if you identify the behaviours that support your diet, reports the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Small changes to make to your diet

Small changes to make to your diet

Taking small weight-loss steps can create good eating habits that will help you stay slim, says Julie Beun.
Diet soft drinks not so 'diet' after all: study

Diet soft drinks not so 'diet' after all: study

Diet soft drinks may be tricking your brain into thinking you're hungry when you're not, according to a new study.
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How to eat out and lose weight

How to eat out and lose weight

You can have your restaurant food and eat it, too. That’s the news from US experts who found women taught healthy-eating strategies lost weight, without...
Man has not eaten any food or drink for 70 years

Man has not eaten any food or drink for 70 years

Prahlad Jani says he survives on "spiritual life force" and has not eaten any food or drink for 70 years

Couch potato wanted to eat more, do less, for diet pill firm

Couch potato wanted to eat more, do less, for diet pill firm

British diet pills firm Proactol wants to pay someone £23,750 (NZ$50,874) a year to laze around and eat junk food.
Kids being used to test junk food

Kids being used to test junk food

Eight-year-old children are being used by food producers and marketing companies to test new junk food products

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