It's difficult to believe that 28 years have passed since her angelic voice was silenced by anorexia, or that at period the illness was individual who few people had heard about. Karen Carpenter fought a courageous, but ultimately unsuccessful battle with anorexia. She was only 32. Her death provided a front-page view into the painful and dangerous world of eating complaints. It also allowed others with eating disorders, including Princess Di and Tracey Gold, to go public their own own…

The fitness industry wants you to believe that you need an endless range of kit to reach your workout goals. They try to convince you that you will never be ready to achieve that high level of fitness you always wanted without the need for treadmills, elliptical trainers, chest press machines, leg curl machines and also other contraptions.

From the period on, my youngest sister, my sister's best friend, and I became body guards to my grieving aunt. We delegated, we arranged, we became…