What’s the best form of exercise for weight loss? Here, we look at what the research tell us about running and shedding kilos.

Your online persona could help you lose weight and improve your general wellbeing.

Obesity and overweight is making the total weight of humanity unsustainable for the planet.

When you eat can be as important as what you eat.

Stress, hormone imbalance, poor gut health … Here we look at some of the physical obstacles that may prevent you from achieving the ideal weight for you.

The Dark Mistress is surfacing from a successful weight-loss routine of daily yoga, fasting, detox and health education at the Dharma Healing Centre on Ko Samui. Weight-loss fasting leaves you a lot of time on your hands – once the tyranny of shopping for, preparing and eating food vanishes, you, well… get time to think. […]

The recent screening by SBS of “Did Cooking Make Us Human?” during my week of post-fast raw food has given cause for consideration of cooking, and meat. Coming off a fast, raw food is recommended. Eat raw, very little, one new fruit or vegetable at a time, no protein until the 7th day. It has […]

Do we really need to eat so much food? Who says? For most of us, eating is about the relentless search for satisfaction – nutrition happens to be a convenient side-effect. Desire for food is more fundamental than desire for sex. We engage with food three or more times a day, by adulthood most of […]

In an attempt to find sunshine, holistic fitness, natural weight-loss and stress relief the Dark Mistress found herself waking up in Thailand today. Leaving the iPhone was hard, leaving the laptop impossible, the only hope for this hopelessly addicted screenager, is that the Bamboo Huts of Ko Samui don’t have broadband… Why Thailand…? An irony […]

Strawberries can reduce the damage that alcohol does to your stomach.

Resistance training can reduce your chance of developing type 2 diabetes.

Did you know that a study called ‘The A to Z weight loss study’ was done comparing the low carbohydrate Atkins diet, the low-carb Zone diet, the low-fat, high-carb LEARN diet and the very high-carb Ornish diet.