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- Shine Food
Get the soup attitude…
Soup has become a fashionable and sophisticated food of choice again. Soup is delicious, but there are many other good things about it too…Its invigorating qualities certainly make soup perfect for cold, winter months. But soup is also making a big comeback because of its health virtues, as it can
- Healthy Living
Why You Shouldn’t Be a Diet-Food Junkie
Diet Foods That Ruin Weight Loss They promise to help you control portions, lower your fat intake, slim your waist, and still allow you to eat three square meals a day. But in reality, the only thing "square" about many diet foods is the box.
- Fashion
Beauty secrets of women around the world
World cosmetics (skincare inspired from far reaching destinations) have found a place in our bathroom cabinets and provide pleasure for our senses. So take a 'feel good' trip on the discovery of beauty secrets of women from other parts of the world. Pamper yourself!Beauty secrets of African women
- Shine Food
Mango and papaya salad
serves 4 prep 15 mins cook 10 mins Ingredients: 1 piece preserved stem ginger, cut into thin strips 2 tbsp stem ginger syrup 2 tbsp caster sugar grated zest and juice of 1 lemon 1 pomegranate, cut in half, seeds scooped out 1 large ripe mango 1
- Shine Food
Apple and Pear Chutney
makes 4-5 jars prep 1 hr cook 45 mins preserving pan or large stainless steel saucepan, 4-5 × 450g (1lb) jam or Kilner jars Ingredients: 1kg (2 ¼ lb) apples, peeled, quartered, and cored 450g (1lb) pears, peeled, quartered, and
- Fashion
Simple truths about good skin
When it comes to skin care, prevention is definitely more potent than cure, so it's better that you take some of these simple truths on-board while there's still time.It would be fantastic if a pot of cream or a peeling treatment could transform damaged skin into beautiful skin. But it's not the cas
- Healthy Living
10 questions about PMS (premenstrual syndrome)
Many women suffer from premenstrual syndrome: PMS. Although the causes of premenstrual syndrome remain quite a mystery, it seems that hormonal changes do play an important role.
- Parenting
Why doesn’t my baby bump show?
For women carrying extra weight, a developing foetus may have enough room to grow "sideways" and so the much anticipated baby bump doesn't swell into view until later in the pregnancy, if at all.Weeks and months go by and your belly doesn't become rounder, even though you are regularly gaining weigh
- Healthy Living
Is fresh and organic food best?
There is no doubt that fresh food is best from a nutritional point of view and that organic food is great for its lack of pesticides
- Love + Sex
The 10 Relationship Enemies
It's no use looking for a magic formula to make your relationship work. On the other hand, you can avoid certain traps, which, in the long run, can weaken the bonds that tie you together. Here's a short guide to the bad habits that you must avoid at all costs! An Identikit picture of 10 of the major
- Healthy Living
Children: warning signs of an eating disorder
Eating disorders most commonly affect adolescents and young women, and occur across all the social groups.
- Love + Sex
How can we make our orgasms more intense?
Are intense night-long lovemaking sessions and multiple orgasms only possible for those who are exceptionally gifted lovers? Not at all! Both women and men can have multiple orgasms… You just need a bit of training.Orgasms can be good or mind-blowing, and for many, multiple orgasms are even better
- Healthy Living
Tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you...
Do you know exactly what you eat? This is a question your doctor will ask you if you see him or her about weight problems. Most of the time, people underestimate their food intake.If you're overweight, it's essential that you know what you eat in order to determine the most adequate diet or just bre
- Parenting
Hey,You'll be a good mum!Have confidence in yourself as a mother
The baby you dreamt of is finally here and you are a mother for the very first time! You were so impatient to finally hold your little darling in your arms! But now baby's here, you're feeling quite helpless and hardly like a mother at all.
- Love + Sex
Bouncing back after a break-up
After a long period of reflection, you've finally decided, done it and are living with it - you've broken up with your partner. But sticking with it and rebuilding yourself can seem like a real obstacle course. You might think that it's easier to 'dump' rather than being 'dumped', but actually it's
- Healthy Living
Beware of food-borne infections
We've all been fretting about the dangers of eating cucumbers due to an outbreak of food-borne E-Coli infection, causing deaths and illness in Germany.And yet, many of us have forgotten how common food-borne infection actually is… Doctissimo gives you an update. Many pathogenic agents are known t
- Parenting
Causes Of Babies' Crying
Your baby will still cry if she's hungry, if she's in pain and if she's too hot or too cold and the cures for these will remain the same as for newborns (see Causes of Crying). However, as she gets older she will also be distressed by new things.Boredom Hang a mobile or similar toy above your b
- Love + Sex
Battle of the sexes: how equal is equal?
Are men and woman equal? Yes, but are we the same? Well, er, no. Insisting on the differences between the sexes in an era where the idea of 'unisex' dominates is rather frowned upon, but here we go...Psychiatrist Jean-Paul Mialet is clear on this: "The differences between men and women are not simpl
- Love + Sex
When puberty comes early
Puberty marks the end of childhood. But why does it sometimes start early? Puberty is considered precocious in girls younger than eight and boys younger than ten.And it seems that precocious puberty is becoming increasingly common. But why has the biological clock started to speed up? Do we know the
- Parenting
Constipation in children
Constipation in children is the difficult, infrequent, and sometimes painful passage of hard faeces. All children differ in their bowel habits. Some children pass faeces several times a day, and others may do so only once every few days. Both these situations are normal provided that the faeces are