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When you’re an Olympic athlete, your body is a finely tuned machine, a precise instrument of competition dependent on exactly the correct mix of nutritional elements to fuel optimum results. Unless you’re Usain Bolt, in which case you just devour Chicken McNuggets by the truckful and outrun the entire planet anyway. In his newly published […]

DEREK Nance is a butcher. Before that he was an electrician. But it’s been a natural transition – given he eats a diet of exclusively raw meat, VICEreports. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky, and fell into the raw meat thing about five years ago when he was in desperate search of a cure-all diet for […]

HE founded the world’s most famous software company and is dedicated to eradicating malaria. Now Bill Gates could be set to add another line to his CV: World’s first trillionaire. That’s according to financial forecasters who predict it’s only a matter of time before we see billions become trillions. That’s a million million for the […]

A 116-YEAR-OLD Peruvian living in extreme poverty in the heart of the Andes is staking a claim to be recognised as the oldest person in the world. Thought to have been born on December 20, 1897, Filomena Taipe Mendoza’s age would make her three months older than Japanese Misao Okawa, who was believed to be […]

If you’re going to fail, fail well ? it simply means success is just around the corner. The Collective Magazine looked to Britain’s brilliant business tycoon Sir Richard Branson for a few cunning and shrewd tricks and how to’s. So you’ve failed. The big idea, with all its hopes and expectation, is toast. On the […]

Picture: Sarah Matay Picture: Carmel Denniss Picture: Justin Lloyd HE HAS run a marathon every day for the past 20 months, and now all Tom Denniss plans to do is kick back and enjoy a hard-earned cold beer. But don’t be fooled, he won’t be resting for too long – the father-of-two who made his […]

RYAN Suffern is the best brother ever. Hands down. No contest. Most children write to Santa to ask for toys, video games, iPads and whatnot. Not Ryan. When single mother Karen Suffern asked her twin children, Ryan and Amber, to write a list of things they wanted from Santa, Ryan didn’t have a selfish thought […]

America’s super-rich just keep getting richer. Overnight, Forbes released its annual list of the top 400 richest Americans. While most of the top names and rankings didn’t change from a year ago, the majority of members of the elite club saw their fortunes grow over the past year, helped by strong stock and real estate […]

A US$200,000 ($216,000) tip for a bartender turns out not to be as generous as it first appeared. The woman posted a photo of the receipt to social media site Reddit, commenting: “Today the absolute weirdest thing happened to me, ever.” She reports that two women in their 20s visited the St Louis restaurant where […]

MICHELLE Obama has pushed Americans to eat healthier and to exercise more. Now she says they should “drink up” too. As in plain water. And as in more of it. The first lady, an exercise fanatic who loves French fries and whose biceps are envied by women everywhere, is getting behind a campaign being launched […]