Female athletes want to be the most they can be, not the least. They want to be stronger, faster and more powerful—all to support their goals of winning.

I pulled my shoulder at the gym this week. But I wasn’t lifting weights or speeding along on the rowing machine—I was trying to get sports leggings on.

Dietary supplements sometimes contain banned substances and mislabelled ingredients but there are people out there keeping you safe

Low-carb diets are among the most popular diet choices for people trying to lose weight but research suggests this weight loss may come at the expense of general health, especially if followed for a long period of time.

Having been practised for thousands of years, a personalised approach to food is nothing new but now we can combine it with everything we know about health.

Many superfoods—like turmeric and ginger—have been used for centuries by different cultures around the world but say you’re using hemp, and everyone assumes you’re smoking marijuana and seeking the high cannabis is famed for. But the cannabinoids present in hemp are an incredible set of molecules with real positive effects on the body.

In the age of social media, comparison has become almost instinctive. Overwhelmed with edited and cosmetically enhanced faces, reshaped bodies positioned in carefully calculated poses, and all manner of lavish possessions, our perception of reality can begin to warp and, in turn, our self-worth suffers as the expectations we hold for ourselves adapt.

While government funded schemes do exist, healthcare in the US is a largely private sector that costs Americans thousands of dollars every year, and yet continues to perform poorly when compared to other developed countries. Why, then, does the American public seem to oppose universal healthcare so vehemently?

We’re used to measuring our health using tools like body mass index (BMI) and resting heart rate, so it feels like a baby step to turn our attentions to what’s under the hood—our genetic code. But, in exchange for a couple of facts about your health or disease risk, you could be selling everything about you.

Why doesn’t the human body crave the nutrients in fruits and vegetables, preferring instead to demand sugar and fat in unhealthy quantities?

There are populations around the world that exclusively live off fish and other sea creatures, with minimal fruit, animal products or carbohydrates—so why don’t Inuits suffer vitamin deficiencies? How can the Masai keep running on a diet of just milk, meat and blood?

Every year sees a new crop of health trends hit the headlines. You have to wonder; are these things actually good for us or just pretty pictures pretending to be healthy?

When I tell my grandma I am working out to make my bum look bigger, her face is a picture.