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In an industry ruled by an obsession with the coveted size zero, the full-figured Rebecca Field is a welcome addition as a regular on October Road.  The actress plays plump barmaid Janet “The Planet” Meadows in the ABC series now on its second season. In real life, Field has had her

Living a healthy lifestyle adds fourteen years to life, British researchers reported today. Fruit and vegetables, light alcohol intake, some regular exercise and not smoking all combined to add years to the life of people from the county of Norfolk in the UK. The conclusions, by a Cambridge University team,

Currently, my “big” brother is on diets…and unfortunately found that it doesn’t really work like what he expected…. The answer is simple because they’re not natural. Fad diet is the term that describes an array of diet approaches used to temporarily lose weight through unsafe and unrealistic methods. Quick fix

The family dinner is more than a quaint slice of American life. Researchers at the University of Minnesota have confirmed it discourages teen girls from risky weight-loss tactics. Extreme behaviors such as self-induced vomiting and diet-drug use were less common among teen girls who reported in a survey that they

It’s Goodbye to 2007 and HELLO to the start of 2008……YIPPEE!! For me, it’s a time to look back on the past, reflect on the changes I want (or need) to make, and a chance to wipe the slate clean and start a fresh!! Did you make any New Year’s

Once the fairy-dust has settled after the rampage of festive food and party tipples, thousands and thousands of us each year head on down to our nearest sparkly top of the range super-gym and sign-up for a year’s membership, 100% positive that we’ll be religiously swimming and gym-ing it 3

Many widely held medical beliefs are myths based on frequent repetition rather than any real evidence. Sometimes even doctors are duped, say two US experts in the Christmas issue of the British Medical Journal. They scoured the medical literature for evidence to support seven widely held beliefs, and found little

Wow what a year it’s been, what with the re-launch and all the new faces we have around here at 100% People HQ, it’s definitely been one to remember! I’m off on my Christmas holidays now, but before I go I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone

LAST month we revealed obese patients in Reading have cost Royal Berkshire Hospital almost £140,000 this year after it had to shell out for specialist furniture and equipment to cope with overweight people. Here, PHIL GOWLER, from Woodley, explains why he thinks overweight people like himself are being treated like

We consume, on average, a whopping 7,000 calories over the course of Christmas Day – four times a woman’s daily recommended intake and more than three times a man’s. Our usual daily fat allowance is 70g and 90g respectively, but the average Christmas dinner alone contains a staggering 114.2g fat.