Debbie McGee told last week how she takes a spoonful of an alternative health supplement called colloidal silver – microscopic silver particles suspended in water
Strictly Come Dancing favourite Debbie McGee has revealed the secrets of her success: eggs and bacon for breakfast and two dinners.
The 59-year-old told last week how she takes a spoonful of an alternative health supplement called colloidal silver – microscopic silver particles suspended in water.
But she also admits that she has developed a voracious appetite since she started on the show.
‘I have a big breakfast every morning,’ says Debbie, left. ‘Generally, I have mashed avocado on toast with two poached eggs and bacon.’
And after a gruelling rehearsal schedule with dance partner Giovanni Pernice, she also tucks into two dinners.
‘I can’t just have one dinner any more – I’m burning up the calories when I dance so I need huge meals.’
However, Debbie, who battled it out against Paralympian Jonnie Peacock in last weekend’s dance-off, still manages to maintain her killer figure.
‘I’m about 3 lb lighter than when I started,’ she says. ‘I don’t diet – I love my food too much.’
If you want to complete a jigsaw in a hurry, ask a girl to help you. Girls are better at solving the puzzles than boys, according to new research, because they make fewer wrong moves and spend less time moving the pieces around.
While primary school-age boys took up to five minutes to complete a puzzle, girls of the same age took little more than three minutes, according to a study reported in the journal Frontiers In Behavioural Neuroscience.
Researchers at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia say girls were more focused and worked their way through the test systematically.
In contrast, boys performed more by trial and error, picking up pieces and trying to fit them in without considering already completed parts of the puzzle.
Britain’s leading heart charity is launching a campaign to fund research into fish genes, which they claim is close to unlocking the causes of deadly cardiac conditions.
The British Heart Foundation needs £750,000 to continue a study at Newcastle University’s Institute of Genetic Medicine, which has used zebrafish DNA to uncover vital clues about the causes of congenital heart disease.
The fish was chosen because its embryo is transparent, which makes it ideal to study how the heart first starts to grow and beat. The development of its heart also begins in a similar way to that of humans.
Researchers are close to discovering why 4,400 babies a year are born with malformed heart valves and other arterial defects. With funding, they aim to work out how to reverse the effect of the faulty genes that cause it.
No wonder TV star Kim Kardashian is so popular – men have evolved to be attracted to women with prominent derrieres, according to new research.
In some animals, a lordotic posture – where the lower spine is curved towards the belly, which has the effect of thrusting the buttocks outwards – is associated in females who are ready to mate.
It led scientists in Portugal to investigate whether the same trait is seen in humans.
No wonder TV star Kim Kardashian is so popular – men have evolved to be attracted to women with prominent derrieres, according to new research
They report that men who had to rate images of female bodies were more attracted to those with the greatest back curvature.
A new smartphone app has been launched to help teenage arthritis sufferers combat loneliness.
Nearly three-quarters of youngsters with the condition say their social life has been hit because their rheumatoid arthritis can leave them with painful and swollen joints, sleep problems and low moods.
The new RheumaBuddy app acts like a social media platform and allows sufferers aged 16 and over to record and share their symptoms via a diary.