Diet and Fitness
Eat chocolate to improve your workout
Sarah Berry What to train faster, higher, stronger? An Easter egg might just be the boost you need.
Will tech kill the trainer?
Sarah Berry As fitness tech becomes smarter will people stop going to the gym?
Can impatience ever be a virtue?
Linda Blair Despite impatience being linked in some way to accelerated ageing, many people still consider it to be a good quality, and a powerful motivator.
The benefits of a cold start to the day
Sarah Berry Research shows that, as well as waking you up, warming yourself to cold water has multiple benefits.
Keep fit and carry on
Sarah Berry Increasing numbers of women are discovering it's fun to work up a sweat together.
How we learn to eat
Paula Goodyer With a big weekend for chocolate ahead, now's a good time to ask if women really do have a special relationship with chocolate - or have they just been told they do?
Michelle Bridges' mum launches eating and exercise program
Sarah Berry Diet and fitness changes have stopped Maureen Partridge's osteoporosis deteriorating.
'Pull your finger out, Australia': Jamie Oliver urges action over soft drink sugar tax
Latika Bourke Britain's new sugar tax is a "profound move" which will have "ripples around the world," but is only just the beginning of anti-junk food measures, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver says.
Brain maker: neurologist David Perlmutter gets to the guts of brain health
Sarah Berry Neurologist and author of the best-selling Grain Brain, David Perlmutter thinks it's time to rehabilitate our guts.
For serious training, hold the carbs at dinnertime
Gretchen Reynolds Strategically skipping bread, pasta and other carbohydrates at dinner might improve subsequent athletic performance.
Blueberries may help prevent Alzheimer's, researchers say
A "super fruit" famed for its health-giving properties may protect ageing brains and help prevent Alzheimer's, new research suggests.
Over the hill at 50, or just starting out?
Sarah Berry Rosalie Gascoigne is one of Australia's preeminent artists.
The case for smarter labelling of sugar
Paula Goodyer When it comes to the sugar in packaged food should food labels distinguish between sugar that's a natural part of the food (like the sugar in milk) and sugars added by the manufacturer?
While his parents slept, this seven-year-old boy's life was saved by Jedi, his diabetes-sniffing dog
Sarah Kaplan It was the middle of the night. The lights were off, the house was still, the six members of the Nuttall family were sound asleep. The machinery that monitors the blood sugar levels of 7-year-old Luke Nuttall, who suffers from dangerous type 1 diabetes, was utterly quiet.
The magical thing eating chocolate does to your brain
Roberto A. Ferdman In the mid 1970s, psychologist Merrill Elias began tracking the cognitive abilities of more than a thousand people in the state of New York.
What is healthy, according to Michael Mosley
Sarah Berry Dr Michael Mosley, GP and host of upcoming SBS's Trust Me, I'm a Doctor series, is a rebel of the health world.
Get fit or get fat: a man's mid-life choice
Jake Niall Have you buried a personal training voucher in a drawer for 12 months? Jake Niall did, then realised he needed a kick in the pants or he'd soon be buying bigger ones.
Why we need to un-shame STIs
Paula Goodyer In Scrotal Recall, a British TV comedy series, 20-something Dylan sits across the desk from his GP and learns he's tested positive for the sexually transmitted infection chlamydia.
Lack of sleep leads to the 'marijuana munchies'
As if a lack of sleep wasn't bad enough, we have to deal with the knowledge that losing sleep is also likely to make us fat.
Is juicing bad for you and the environment?
Sarah Berry Juicing is bad for your health and for the earth.
