Fitter, happier, more productive: exercise at work
December 19th, 2008 15:35
Want to be more productive, happier and less stressed, with the emphasis on ‘more productive’, of course? Try building some exercise into your working day.
Want to be more productive, happier and less stressed, with the emphasis on ‘more productive’, of course? Try building some exercise into your working day.
Just how many slices of white bread, fried eggs, cheese and scoops of mayo do you need to be an Olympic gold medallist? Flipping loads, it turns out.
Enormous man-mountain, Michael Phelps, he of eight golds and counting fame, has shared his diet with the world. It makes for incredible reading, not least because it’s not much different to that of enormous teen-mountain, Georgia Davis.
It’s hard to believe sometimes that Nicole Kidman had a baby just a few weeks ago.
The Hollywood star gave birth to her daughter, Strawberry Sundae (or something like that) only last month, but has already shed her baby weight.
Some have claimed it to be a miracle. Even we started to think the whole pregnancy thing was a cunning trick, and that Nicole Kidman had simply adopted another child and stuffed a pillow down her top to make it look natural.
The Grammy-winning star tells OK! magazine how she keeps in shape and healthy. And how she eats at least five meals a day.
“It’s diet because I can’t always workout every day.
“Egg whites in the morning, with a piece of fruit. Water is very important all day long. Protein shake for the second meal and a piece of fruit.
She’s chucking K-Fed his £20,000 a month and propping up the local Starbucks but Britney still has money to burn, and she’s burning it on getting rid of her pot belly and back fat.
After she was pictured with enough of a gut to spark some pretty believable pregnancy rumours, Britney took the bull by the horns and signed up to a £11,000-a-month diet and exercise regime.
Emma Bunton, who once claimed eating disorders don’t happen in Barnet, has told Red magazine that she prefers herself curvy to scrawny.
Baby Spice is adamant that knocking around with Victoria Beckham and Geri Halliwell again hasn’t made her diet bonkers and has no intention of following them on their dogged size zero quest.
An NHS leaflet which urged kids to exercise during TV ad breaks has been shelved after being branded ‘patronising’ and’ unrealistic’ by angry parents.
Red-faced health chiefs were forced to withdraw the booklet, designed to curb growing child obesity levels in the UK, after several complaints from focus groups.
Don’t be surprised if you see some of the male athletes competing in the Beijing Olympics competing with huge bulges in their shorts.
No, Linford Christie is not back competing for Great Britain. But if he did, he may have trouble seeing the finishing line, never mind beating everyone else to it.
Why? Well, you see, athletes are now using Viagra to boost their on-the-field performances as well as fueling their legendary off-the-field antics.
Breaking news: Amy Winehouse is not, at the time of going to press, on the brink of death. As recently as yesterday, she was frolicking on a beach in the sun like an actual human.
The troubled singer-songwriter (where “troubled” is an euphemism for ‘we expect her to be found dead in a ditch any second’) spent Sunday on a beach in St. Lucia. We thought she was in rehab in London, but OK.
So far, her latest stint in treatment doesn’t seem to have done Wino any harm; splashing around in a pair of bikini bottoms, she’s distinctly less skeletal and has clearly undergone the process that the Daily Mail refers to as “packing on the pounds” and we at DietPixie call “starting to consume something other than crack”.
Amy has also reportedly started working out for two hours a day - and it seems ‘working out’ is not just code for ‘rolling around on the floor, clawing at the walls and screaming for drugs/booze/Blake’. She has apparently hired a personal trainer and “bounds in to work out on the bikes, weights and Power Plate”.
On the one hand, I’m pleased to see Amy looking a bit more human and actually smiling for a change. On the other hand, things have got pretty bad if Amy freaking Winehouse spends more time in the gym than I do. Who am I supposed to use now as my ‘it could be worse’ person? “It could be worse, you could be Amy Winehouse.” It’s not going to work if she’s running around on Caribbean beaches, now is it?
Still, there’s always Britney.
Source: Daily Mail
Breaking news: Amy Winehouse is not, at the time of going to press, on the brink of death. As recently as yesterday, she was frolicking on a beach in the sun like an actual human.
The troubled singer-songwriter (where “troubled” is an euphemism for ‘we expect her to be found dead in a ditch any second’) spent Sunday on a beach in St. Lucia. We thought she was in rehab in London, but OK.
So far, her latest stint in treatment doesn’t seem to have done Wino any harm; splashing around in a pair of bikini bottoms, she’s distinctly less skeletal and has clearly undergone the process that the Daily Mail refers to as “packing on the pounds” and we at DietPixie call “starting to consume something other than crack”.
Amy has also reportedly started working out for two hours a day - and it seems ‘working out’ is not just code for ‘rolling around on the floor, clawing at the walls and screaming for drugs/booze/Blake’. She has apparently hired a personal trainer and “bounds in to work out on the bikes, weights and Power Plate”.
On the one hand, I’m pleased to see Amy looking a bit more human and actually smiling for a change. On the other hand, things have got pretty bad if Amy freaking Winehouse spends more time in the gym than I do. Who am I supposed to use now as my ‘it could be worse’ person? “It could be worse, you could be Amy Winehouse.” It’s not going to work if she’s running around on Caribbean beaches, now is it?
Still, there’s always Britney.
Source: Daily Mail
Breaking news: Amy Winehouse is not, at the time of going to press, on the brink of death. As recently as yesterday, she was frolicking on a beach in the sun like an actual human.
The troubled singer-songwriter (where “troubled” is an euphemism for ‘we expect her to be found dead in a ditch any second’) spent Sunday on a beach in St. Lucia. We thought she was in rehab in London, but OK.
So far, her latest stint in treatment doesn’t seem to have done Wino any harm; splashing around in a pair of bikini bottoms, she’s distinctly less skeletal and has clearly undergone the process that the Daily Mail refers to as “packing on the pounds” and we at DietPixie call “starting to consume something other than crack”.
Amy has also reportedly started working out for two hours a day - and it seems ‘working out’ is not just code for ‘rolling around on the floor, clawing at the walls and screaming for drugs/booze/Blake’. She has apparently hired a personal trainer and “bounds in to work out on the bikes, weights and Power Plate”.
On the one hand, I’m pleased to see Amy looking a bit more human and actually smiling for a change. On the other hand, things have got pretty bad if Amy freaking Winehouse spends more time in the gym than I do. Who am I supposed to use now as my ‘it could be worse’ person? “It could be worse, you could be Amy Winehouse.” It’s not going to work if she’s running around on Caribbean beaches, now is it?
Still, there’s always Britney.
Source: Daily Mail