Fitness guru Tammy Hembrow wants you to stop stressing and start eating if you ‘aren’t making progress’

June 7, 2017, 2:49 am

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Anyone who’s into fitspo on Instagram knows Tammy Hembrow.

She’s the insanely fit 23-year-old mum from Queensland who claims to have returned to her pre-baby body just two months after giving birth.

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For anyone unfamiliar, Tammy has risen to Instagram fame thanks to her ultra-glamorous, ultra-hardcore workouts.

She’s also a member of Khloe Kardashian’s Good America squad who has apparently motivated Khloe on her own fitness journey.

And this week, she posted a video to Instagram of the progress she’s made on her bum over the past two… Read the full story

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June 7, 2017, 2:54 am

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Milagros ‘Mili’ Hernandez is an eight year old girl who is really great at playing football.

So much so, Mili frequently plays with her older mates, starring in a team full of 11 year olds.

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Mili made headlines recently following a problem involving her appearance at a football tournament in Nebraska on Sunday.

Mili, who has short hair, was mistaken for a boy at the girls football tournament and her team the Azurri Achurros, were made to forfeit a championship game following a complaint from their opponents.

Following the disqualification, Mili was, naturally,… Read the full story

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June 7, 2017, 3:47 am

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We all have visions of ourselves running around in the summer, Baywatch style: hair flowing behind us, red swimsuit clinging to our curves but not riding up our butt.

The reality is often a little different.

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Wet hair plastered to your head is rarely flattering. Neither is the expression we pull when we realise we have sand where sand should never be.

It makes sense, then, that we try to compensate by putting on makeup before we head to the beach or pool.

Even if we end up swimming and our eyeliner runs… Read the full story

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June 7, 2017, 4:38 am

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My pink Asics are dying.

We’ve been together for over five years. Through rain and shine, through snow and hail, my trainers have carried me miles.

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They’ve been the most trusty kicks a runner could wish for but alas, their days are numbered.

In fact, I’ve not put them on since we went over the finish line at the London Marathon.

Our journey together began when I started university and was presented with a box of brand new size 8s to go up to York with.

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June 7, 2017, 5:00 am

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There was nothing more exhilarating than running to your local Woolies as fast as your little legs could carry you, armed with your bounty – aka pocket-money – for the week.

Before the shops shut, the chain was a national treasure; an Aladdin’s cave of everything you didn’t realise you actually needed and much more.

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You may not realise this, but your choice of purchase in Woolies said a lot about you.

If you were after the posters, you were on a mission to… Read the full story

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June 7, 2017, 5:03 am

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It feels like just last week that we were celebrating Mother’s Day, but now it’s time to celebrate our dads.

Father’s Day is usually held on the third June of each year, and this year it falls on Sunday June 18.

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The annual celebration of how fathers impact our lives began in the US 100 years ago and has since come to be celebrated around the world on various dates.

Mark the date in your diary and make sure you at least have a card to give him – here are some ideas for… Read the full story

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June 7, 2017, 5:09 am

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A new study has found that companies that are open about what everyone earns makes for happier, more motivated employees.

A joint study from the Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labour Relations and Tel Aviv University found that employees work together more effectively when we all know who is on what money.

So your boss really should be letting everyone know how much they earn.

The study states that workers collaborate better when they know how much people earn, as employees become better at asking for help from the right people.

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June 7, 2017, 6:50 am

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How many unloved books have you chucked away in an effort to get your shelves suitably minimalist?

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You really should be donating them.

But if the idea of a little old lady picking up your book in a charity shop doesn’t persuade you to keep novels out of the bin, maybe this’ll show you the potential joy your unwanted books could bring.

Jose Alberto Gutierrez is a binman. For the last 20 years, he’s been taking books that have been thrown away and adding them to a public library of… Read the full story

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Drinking coffee before a work out might make you exercise more effectively

June 7, 2017, 7:01 am

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Talk to many PTs and fitness types and they’ll tell you about their love of coffee.

While many of us are fuelled by Pinot Grigio, they can be found discoursing on their favourite coffee houses, bean blends and caffeine-rich macha lattes.

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Are they just into coffee because they can’t go on the lash? Does drinking coffee have any impact on fitness?

Well, a study claims to have found that drinking coffee actually helps with workouts.

Bruno Gualano, a physiology professor at the University of São Paulo drinks a load of coffee and cycles… Read the full story

A nurse in Canada is making tiny superhero capes for premature babies and it’s too much

June 7, 2017, 7:37 am

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For new parents whose babies are born prematurely and have to spend their first weeks or even months in an incubator, it’s a stressful time.

Their babies are sometimes fighting for their lives and new parents can find it incredibly hard being separated from them as they grow strong enough to be allowed home.

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But one nurse in Canada has decided to do something to raise everyone’s spirits.

Stephanie Treherne, who works at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, has been surprising exhausted parents by making mini capes, adorned with their baby’s… Read the full story

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June 7, 2017, 8:28 am

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All over the internet today, you’ve probably seen some iteration of the following headline: ‘marriage is good for your health, so you’d better hurry up and get hitched unless you want to die young in some horrible way.’

Everyone’s talking about a new bit of research, which suggests that married people have better health than poor, sad, unhealthy singletons.

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A study of almost a million… Read the full story

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June 7, 2017, 8:39 am

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You can customise every part of your wedding ceremony, so why not your wedding ring?

Increasingly more and more people are looking to add creative, personal spins onto their wedding bands and the results are pretty great. 

The latest personalisation comes to us via Reddit, as user Im_High_Tech shared a photo of his customised fingerprint wedding ring.

Fingerprint wedding bands are a personal spin on the wedding ring

The ring, which is a white gold band and comes adorned with an engraving of his wife’s fingerprint, was inspired by a piece of woodwork Im_High_Tech had previously encountered. 

‘Several… Read the full story

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June 7, 2017, 8:47 am

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Are you one of those people who looks to ‘catch up’ on sleep on the weekend? Are you a fan of a Friday nights out? Or even late Saturday nights in watching Netflix?

A new study from University of Arizona has claimed a shift in people’s sleep patterns on the weekend could lead to poorer health.

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Dubbing the phenomenon ‘social jetlag’, research assistant Sierra B. Forbush has suggested that employing an altered sleep cycle on the weekend could be the reason why people frequently complain of fatigue during the week.

Put… Read the full story

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June 7, 2017, 9:02 am

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You might not be able to afford a personal trainer but there’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to work out like one.

All you need is a little education about how your body type and how it reacts to certain foods and types of exercise, and away you go.

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After all, they too started from nothing.

And while they might have dedicated hours to studying nutrition and sports science, all you’ve got to do is go onto their Instagrams to see what they eat and how… Read the full story

World Oceans Day 2017: 5 things to do to help clean up our oceans

June 7, 2017, 4:01 pm

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Whether an avid seafarer or an intermittent beach dweller – the oceans are a big part of the planet.

Why we should support our oceans

It isn’t just about saving the sea life – the world’s oceans generate oxygen, help feed people, regulate the climate, clean the water we drink and offer a stock of medicinal drugs, according to World Ocean Day’s official website.

But these large expanses of water and the creatures that reside beneath them are under threat from an estimated 8 million tonnes of plastic every year, according to Greenpeace.

Coral reefs are reportedly dwindling partly due to… Read the full story

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June 7, 2017, 9:30 pm

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Human babies wake up during the night; I knew this going into motherhood.

I was fully aware that having children would be tiring, but what I did not anticipate was the kind of relentless, torturous exhaustion that can destroy your confidence, and reduce you to tears in the supermarket because there is an ‘unexpected item in your bagging area’.

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June 7, 2017, 11:41 pm

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Great news, animal-lovers who also enjoy buying fancy clothing online: Net-a-Porter has officially announced that as of this week, they will no longer be selling real fur of any description.

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Yoox Net-a-Porter Group (YNAP), Net-a-Porter’s parent company, announced on Tuesday that they’ve adopted a fur-free policy, which will prevent any items made with animal fur from being sold on the website.

This policy will apply to all of the group’s online stores: Mr Porter, Yoox, Net-a-Porter,… Read the full story

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June 8, 2017, 12:32 am

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Today’s reminder that yes, the internet remains a very strange place: right now on Twitter, thousands of people are losing their minds over a Shiba Inu.

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But this is not just any Shiba Inu.

This not a classic doge reference, or our favourite, a Shiba Inu stuck in a hedge.

Nope, this specific Shiba Inu is ‘sexy’.

Now, to be clear, we’re writing ‘sexy’ instead of sexy because frankly, we just can’t see it. We will accept that Roco the Shiba Inu is… Read the full story

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June 8, 2017, 1:14 am

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Napping in public can be a struggle.

Tube seats are too cramped and uncomfortable. The sofas at work are usually hogged. Any patches of grass tend to be damp.

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But one woman has come up with the perfect solution to dissolve all your napping dilemmas.

Simone Giertz, better known for building ridiculously inventive robots, has just made herself a full-body mattress.

All she does is cut out her shape from a large bit of foam, then straps it to her waist, legs and head.

And sure, it looks… Read the full story

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June 8, 2017, 1:21 am

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I was sat at my desk trying to write funny words for money when I heard the news…

‘Seven people were killed and 48 injured in London terror attack.’

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Hearing this just two weeks after the devastating bombing at Manchester Arena left me in tears.

Yet another story of mass murder, death and terrorism in which parents have lost children. Children have lost parents.

But I needed to work.

‘11 reasons why I wish laundry had a face so I could punch it’. I can’t be funny. Not today.

I… Read the full story