Go naked in the Alps
December 2007
HERE’S a travel tip for anyone heading to the Austrian Alps. You have to be naked when you go into a sauna in this neck of the woods. Same goes for the steam room. And the communal showers inside the day spa area.
Yep. Totally nude. And yes, it’s men and women together.
Now, some of you who are well travelled may already know this, and delight in the freedom of baring all among strangers. But for those who aren’t familiar with spa etiquette in Europe, listen up.
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7 health myths revealed
December 2007
Seven health myths revealed include
The need to drink eight glasses of water
Reading in dim light ruins your eyesight
Shaving makes hair grow back faster or coarser
Eating turkey makes you drowsy
We use only 10 per cent of our brains
Hair and fingernails continue to grow after death
Mobile phones are dangerous in hospitals
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Low fat
December 2007
Lite this, low-fat that, 99 per cent fat-free something else. These days, it seems that whatever your poison, there’s a low-fat version to satisfy your hunger. Which sounds like great news for your body’s fat content, not to mention your waistline. So why, in an age where everything from ice-cream to salad dressing has a low-fat alternative, is Australia’s obesity problem getting bigger and bigger?
So big, in fact, that overweight and obesity rates have more than doubled over the past 20 years, so that around seven million of us are currently overweight or obese?While low-fat foods can’t take all the blame for the nation’s weight problem, it turns out they do have a few things to answer for.
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