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Celebrating International Day of Yoga 2024

South Africa’s largest yoga event, held at the Wanderers Stadium, has several new features this year

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Pedal power with the people

Cycling to work is healthy, cuts carbon emissions and is for everyone, rich or poor

Eating the way nature intended

The impossible quest for purity

Linking a fad diet to notions of godliness is a path to hell for those who have a problematic relationship with food

Kenyans and Ugandans need to change their ways to arrest lifestyle diseases

Two surveys paint a shocking picture of how East Africans are exposing themselves to the mounting risks of non-communicable diseases.

South African running is itself a race to compete. (Nick Laham/Getty)

Longevity is just a few steps away

But life is running out if you are a couch potato, whether deep-fried or even oven-baked.

Long and the short of it: How Africans have shrunk

A lot of things went wrong for Africa since the 1960s, but here’s one you probably didn’t know about: we got shorter.

Resolutions for lasting effects

Resolutions for lasting effects

<strong>Dr Luisa Dillner</strong> offers a failure-proof guide to tweaking elements of your lifestyle that will ensure you feel good beyond January.

Obesity — the silent killer

Obesity — the silent killer

Obesity can be dangerous to one’s health. Many South Africans are unaware of the dangers of being overweight.

Weigh-Less for the weighty

It’s been 11 years since Weigh-Less opened a branch in Dobsonville. The first was opened in Soweto at Baragwanath in the 1980s.

SA goes large

Almost half of SA’s adults are too fat. The health risks are huge: heart-related illness, often triggered by obesity, is the second-biggest killer.

Red Heart pill on human trial

A drug that combines four different medicines and could halve deaths from heart attacks and strokes around the globe will enter human trials soon.

Black man running

Oarabile Rops Mosikare attempts a 30km charity walk in Francistown, Botswana. But he struggles to keep up with the elderly vice-president.

Link between fitness and wellness

The link between exercise and better health has been confirmed by three reports commissioned by Discovery Health’s Vitality programme.

Online catharsis

For many people with serious illnesses, blogging offers a way to cope and share their stories, writes Joanna Moorhead.

Take to the floor

As the first specialised clinic offering vaginal strength tests, electronic toning and ‘sexercise’ packages opens in New York.

Life is not a sprint, it’s a marathon

Keeping active is key to a healthy lifestyle. However, our bodies change as we get older and we need to target our exercise accordingly.

Ignore ‘Hollywood heart attack’

The Hollywood heart attack (think Elliott Gould in <i>Ocean’s 13</i>) involves dramatic chest clutching and collapse. But in reality, symptoms vary.

The bottled water affair

It is an astonishing kind of stupidity that sees us duped into paying for bottles of water, stuff that flows freely from our taps, writes Marina Hyde.

Walking to wellness

People with diabetes can limit the impact of the condition simply by walking for an extra 45 minutes a day, according to scientists.

Revolutionary peanut

No longer the preserve of salty pub snacks, the humble peanut is enjoying a moment in the culinary limelight, says Allegra McEvedy.