Jamaica Blue Escape Spring 2016

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ONE STEP AT A TIME A SIMPLE APPROACH TO FITNESS

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06 cover feature Nicole Kidman returns home 12 FOOD Danika Heslop's spring tips and new menu 16 TRAVEL The constant traveller 20 sport Grand final fever 22 entertainment TV political dramas: Real-life vs reel-life

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lifestyle SECTION 26 ONE STEP AT A TIME A simple approach to fitness 28 PUTTING IT TOGETHER Interior design on a budget 30 THE BOOK OF LOVE We delve into the world of digital dating 32 career mentoring Help take your career in new directions 34 PASSION projects Embrace retirement 36 fitness Accentuate the positive 38 fashion Bright and fresh looks for spring 42 books Spring reads 44 Nutrition with sharon natoli Busting the most common myths about food 46 Recipes Tastes of spring

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Welcome to the spring edition of Jamaica Blue Escape. It's time to dust off those winter cobwebs and embrace the new season with a bang. This issue is filled to the brim with pages on home ideas, fitness tips, lifestyle inspirations, spring fashion and delicious recipes. Plus our cover star, Australian actress Nicole Kidman talks about love, career and why she will always call Australia home. Sit back, relax and enjoy... and don't forget to share your spring Jamaica Blue experience on Facebook and Instagram using #jbescape. You could find yourself in an upcoming edition!

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Our newest Jamaica Blue cafés are positioned in growing cities around Australia, ensuring even more people have access to great coffee in their own neighbourhood!

Jamaica Blue brings relaxing café culture to vibrant Campbelltown Mall

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irst established as a small farming community in 1831, Campbelltown has today grown to become a thriving regional capital for south-western Sydney.

Campbelltown Mall is located on Queen Street in the historic heart of Campbelltown, amidst its classical colonial-era buildings, and forms the centre for a vibrant retail culture.

With more than 120 specialty stores on offer, the mall can cater to a wide range of tastes and needs – and now thanks to Crystal, our latest franchisee, Jamaica Blue is there too, providing a place where shoppers can take a moment to relax in warm and comfortable

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surroundings. Visitors can look forward to an excellent baristamade coffee brewed with one of the café's fine blends, or they might grab a delicious bite to eat, created with simple, fresh, quality ingredients.

With a new café now open on the lower level (near Kmart), Jamaica Blue is set to bring something extra to Campbelltown’s vibrant retail culture.

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Lake Macquarie Fair welcomes Jamaica Blue

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he growth of Perth’s south-eastern communities has been spearheaded with Stockland’s award-winning Newhaven residential development setting a new benchmark for urban design. Stockland’s reputation for commitment to developing thriving communities has been cemented with its $51 million investment into a shopping centre, catering to Newhaven’s steadily growing population.

Stockland’s exciting development of the Harrisdale Shopping Centre opens with a Jamaica Blue café ready to provide members of the Newhaven community a tastefully designed and decorated site in which to

recharge, relax, and reflect – a comfy chair, and service with a smile.

Bringing with it exceptionally fine coffee blends and a menu that offers interesting variations on a range of classic dishes, Jamaica Blue at Harrisdale is helmed by new owners Henry and Luis, and will surely grow to become a popular meeting place for Newhaven residents.

Taking pride of place within Stockland’s Newhaven residential development, Stockland Harrisdale also offers a full range of supermarkets and specialty stores, including Woolworths, Aldi, a fresh food and grocery precinct, hairdressers, post office and pharmacy.

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Jamaica Blue’s newest café at Lake Macquarie Fair is the perfect place to take a break during a busy shopping excursion.

Lake Macquarie Fair shopping centre, located at Mount Hutton, is part of the thriving centre of New South Wales' picturesque Hunter Valley region. Lake Macquarie Fair features all of the big-name stores you would expect from a large modern shopping mall, including Big W, Coles, and Woolworths, and over 45 specialty stores.

With such a selection on offer, Jamaica Blue represents a timely addition to the centre: a perfect place to meet or a destination for a much-needed moment of rest from a busy shopping excursion.

Here you will find the kind of quality coffee blends Jamaica Blue cafés are known for, alongside its new seasonal menu, offering a new twist on a selection of comforting classics.

Lake Macquarie Fair’s newest addition will surely be a welcome one, bringing a fabulous café culture to the busy centre. Stop by and say hello to Carolyn and her team.

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HOME TOWN

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scar-winning actress Nicole Kidman has always marched to the beat of her own drum when it comes to her career, defying typecasting with her impressive and eclectic mix of films like Moulin Rouge, The Hours and Rabbit Hole.

While the Aussie redheaded

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force of nature is famous for her acting legacy, she’s also synonymous with the country she still calls home, and has emerged as one of Australia’s best ambassadors to the world.

She has also remained a constant support to the film and TV industry that she began in, including starring with Hugh

Jackman in 2008’s outback saga Australia, and more recently, coming back to support firsttime director Kim Farrant in the 2015 independent drama, Strangerland.

Now Kidman, 49, is back home again, but this time the destination is the small screen.

She is to star in the highly

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It’s been years between appearances on the Aussie screen, but as Nicole Kidman reveals, it’s now time to return home.

By Jenny Cooney Carrillo

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U.S.. For Nicole, the trip proved to be something of discovery as she explored her old stomping grounds from growing up in the Harbour City.

“There’s always been a yearning for this place in my soul,” admits the star, who was born in Hawaii but grew up in the Sydney suburb of Longueville from the age of four.

“Everything about it feels like it’s just imprinted on my psyche and on my physical being, with all those unique sights, smells and sounds.”

Nicole Mary Kidman was only

“My kids say they are Aussie Nashvillians.” five when she was introduced to acting in the school nativity play and, by all accounts, stole the show as a bleating sheep. She later studied drama in her teen years and made her television debut in the 1983 film Bush Christmas.

The former North Sydney Girls High School student was quickly catapulted to stardom after her 1987 breakout TV role in the mini-series Vietnam which she followed with the movie thriller Dead Calm. That success led her to Hollywood, with a starring role opposite Tom Cruise in the 1990 film Days of Thunder.

Cruise and Kidman married later that year, adopting two children, Bella, 24 and Connor, 21, before their ten-year marriage ended in 2001.

The powerhouse performer

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anticipated follow-up to the miniseries Top of the Lake, her first role on Australian TV since her Logie-winning performance in the iconic 1989 mini-series Bangkok Hilton.

Top of the Lake 2 was written, produced and directed by Oscarwinning filmmaker Jane (The Piano) Campion, with a story that

revisits Detective Robin Griffin (Elizabeth Moss) in Sydney, where she’s exploring a new job, a new murder and some unfinished family business.

This time, the case involves Kidman as a, ‘mysterious and grey-haired character’, but the actress says she's not yet allowed to talk about it.

What she can say is, “It’s a supporting role but I wanted to do it for Jane, who I’ve known since I was 14.” Kidman and director Campion worked together in the 1996 period drama The Portrait of a Lady.

“I’m very much in that place now where I just want to support other women in the industry and it’s also fantastic to be able to support the Australian industry and film in my hometown.”

As well as a base in the US country music capital Nashville, Nicole and her husband of 10 years, country singer Keith Urban, still call Australia home, with a house in Sydney and a farm in Sutton Forrest on the NSW Southern Highlands.

The actress confides that her desire to spend much more time at home has only grown since the sudden death of her father Antony in 2014.

“When I went home to make the film Strangerland, little did I know what was going to happen and I’m so grateful now that it gave me time with my dad and he was there with his grandchildren too,” she says with emotion.

For Top of the Lake 2, she brought back her two children, Sunday, 7, and Faith, 5, to spend time with her mother Janelle while Urban was on tour in the

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admits it has been her marriage to Keith Urban, who was born in New Zealand but grew up in Australia, that has also helped strengthen her connection to home.

“My kids say they are Aussie Nashvillians,” she chuckles. “I think it’s a big thing for us that we are both Aussies but we also have a unique global view of the world, so it’s great the kids get to see everything through so many lenses.”

Later this year, Kidman will be seen in the HBO miniseries Big

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“I just think we are meant to be together, it’s that simple.”

Little Lies, based on the book by Australian author Liane Moriarty, as Celeste Wright, a well-to-do mother in the darkly comic tale about a murder at a school fundraiser. It also stars Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern.

“I love that the story focuses on

women and children,” enthuses Kidman, who also co-produced the project with Witherspoon.

“It’s also great at this point in my life to work with so many amazing friends.”

But the home screen remains very much on her radar as she has also signed on for a key supporting role in the Australianproduced film, Lion, to be shot in Tasmania, Melbourne and India. In Lion, she will play the adoptive mother of an Indian man raised in Australia who sets out to find the family he lost when he was five years old on the streets of Calcutta. It has already been hailed as a return to the intense dramatic roles she is most noted for, but Nicole wastes no time brushing aside any early Oscar buzz.

“I choose things that I feel passionate about and it’s always a surprise to me when I hear about award talk,” Kidman responds modestly.

Wherever Nicole goes, her devoted husband isn’t far behind. Urban flew to Australia earlier this year for a 48-hour date with his wife between U.S. tour dates to celebrate her birthday, and she later appeared on his Boston concert stage via Facetime from the Sydney set of Top of the Lake 2 to tell him, ‘I love you baby’ on their 10th wedding anniversary.

“I just think we are meant to be together, it’s that simple,” she revealed in Marie Claire magazine earlier this year. “We are just really into each other and we’re into our kids and we’re a family. We spend five days apart at the most and that’s it. Once you commit to that, everything else becomes simple.”

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JB spotlight stores barista championships The winning team: Hwasuk Choi and Alex Paparwin

Foodco’s 10th Annual Barista

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With four challenges ranging from taste testing to speed runs, all 10 finalists (five teams of two) in the competition were pushed to their limits.

Proving himself as a universally brilliant barista, Hwasuk’s dedication to coffee has clearly paid off. He emphasises the importance of speed and intuition when creating coffees, which he can normally be found doing at Jamaica Blue Warringah Mall.

“Fast service, caring for the customer, remembering their name and coffee [or] sometimes making coffee before they order” are some of his key tricks of the trade.

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The 10th Annual Barista championship has crowned its winners, with champions Hwasuk Choi and Alex Paparwin sharing success.

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ver two full days of gruelling challenges that would make even the most competent of baristas sweat, Jamaica Blue tested some of the nation’s greatest baristas in its annual barista competition.

All finalists were required to perform tasks that showcased a sense of creativity, efficiency and teamwork.

By displaying their skills via numerous challenges and intensive workshops, the

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state finalists created coffees and beverages of the highest standards.

When asked what gave his team the edge to take out the top crown, Hwasuk Choi, with his partner Alex Paparwin, stated that communication and diligence always come first.

“Communication and always checking that everything is alright… [and] using feedback to learn,” he says of his winning strategy.

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With stiff competition emerging from all nationwide Jamaica Blue cafés, this competition was no walk in the park.

The taste test was one of the toughest tasks faced by all competitors, as it required all baristas to rely on their years of experience and intuition.

Baristas were asked to name the odd coffee out of three choices by relying solely on taste.

Jamaica Blue’s Annual Barista Competition offered many opportunities for all competitors to better themselves as they honed their already impressive skills. For instance, by offering intensive workshops such as the Brew Bar workshop, competitors were able to discover the finest manual brewing methods used in cafés.

With challenges such as the Wheel of Fortune Challenge – where contestants were made to recreate the image in which the Wheel of Fortune landed on – baristas were also able to express themselves creatively whilst excelling in efficiency.

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he other half of the winning duo, Alex Paparwin excelled in many latte art challenges, proving to be the cream of the crop – though it’s been a long road to success for this budding barista. “[The] first time I didn’t know how to make coffee. So I practised and studied coffee, and developed skills to become a great barista,” says Alex, who is also from Jamaica Blue Warringah Mall.

“To make the best coffee for the customer, the time of extraction [is key]. The first impression is important.”

Alex’s great attention to detail and his unsurpassable growth as a barista have led to praise beyond the competition.

“Customers sometimes give gifts for the great coffee,” he says.

With his dedication to perfecting extraction and latte art, Alex’s success in the 10th Annual Barista Competition is well deserved.

Here’s a selection of some of the other great latte art from the competition, including Alex's.

L-R: Jeremy Regan, Drew Eide, winners Hwasuk Choi and Alex Paparwin, Simon Au-Yeung

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the flavours of spring Jamaica Blue's own Danika Heslop says there’s no better way to get inspiration for spring time cooking than to take a visit to the farm to meet the people creating the best produce of the season. By John Burfitt

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the soil all the way into the final crop, and can tell you what is the best pick.

“I don’t know of anyone – either a professional chef or the person at home who is passionate about cooking in their own kitchen - who does not love that connection with the land.

“You can easily lose sight of the process when you are cooking with food, of exactly what process it has gone through to get to the point where it is on your kitchen bench ready for preparation.

That’s what I love about talking with farmers as you get such an insight into all the things that can make a difference into the way you eventually use it.”

It can also offer dramatic new inspiration, as Danika found last year during a visit to a coffee farm. As she witnessed the way the bean is extracted from the coffee cherry and then how the bean is then ground into coffee, she admits she was struck with a revelation. As she stood in the field, she wondered why the cherry of the bean is not put to better use.

“We were picking the berries off the branches and I was looking at the berry, thinking wouldn’t it be great to work with both the berry and the bean inside it?” she says.

“It has a sweet taste and a similar colour to a cranberry. It triggered many ideas of how we could

use that fruit as well in muffins and cakes. If I had not gone to the farm and actually picked the cherries myself, it would not have triggered such thoughts. That’s why I believe taking a visit to the land is a great thing for anyone who loves food.”

It was on another visit to a farm that also changed the way Danika now cooks. She was at a macadamia plantation in the hills behind Byron Bay on the NSW Far North Coast, and spent a day with a farmer, watching the entire process the nuts go through.

As a result, Danika vowed she would never let a macadamia burn in the oven ever again!

“Absolutely not!” she says with a laugh. “When you see how hard the farmer has worked to gently guide the crop through every step, we can get a bit carefree in the kitchen about exactly what it is we are working with. And I have been known to burn the macadamias in the oven!

“After seeing that process and talking to the farmer about what is involved, burning them now seems like such a waste and it gives you a complete new respect for the food and the people who have worked so hard to produce it. That’s why connecting with farmers and the land is so important. It will change the way you cook and how you approach food.”

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f you are at a famers’ market this spring, and notice a woman chatting intently with the stallholders about the quality of the produce they are selling, there’s every chance it might be Danika Heslop, Jamaica Blue’s Executive Chef.

And if Danika is not spotted at a weekend farmer’s market, she might be found on a number of farm tours, looking over the fields where the spring crop is being harvested, and chatting to the farmers to find out about the best of the season. She might even be out picking the produce right off the branch.

At spring time, Danika makes the most of the opportunity to get out of the kitchen and go to where the food is grown, so she can talk with the people who are producing it. She says this is one of the main ways she finds the inspiration for working with the foods available in the new season, and for creating the spring menu for Jamaica Blue cafés across the country and the region.

“That is what I love most about this time of the year, that after all the cold months, everything is fresh and all ready to cook with it,” Danika says.

“I really love to connect with the farmers as they know more about food than any of us. They have seen the harvest grow from

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a selection of sweet and savoury bowls – sweet with the latest in spring fruits and savoury with mushroom, tomato and eggs.

There is also a colourful bowl of chickpea, carrot, corn and grated cabbage. “It is light, but delicious and just what people’s tastebuds want at this time,” Danika says.

A dairy-free breakfast smoothie will also be an option for cafés to include. “That is made from coconut water, almond milk and blueberries and is so delicious,” she adds.

On the lunch table will be such offerings as chargrilled zucchini with fetta, rocket and tahini dressing, as well as salmon in a cured beetroot juice and served with a citrus cream.

For those with a sweet tooth, Danika says the good health approach will not be forgotten as a blueberry loaf and a special

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new recipe for chocolate crackles will also be added.

“It is a sweet treat, with only a bit of chocolate but enough for the taste to really carry through.

It’s a favourite.”

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ith the changing of seasons from the cooler months of winter into the warmer days of spring, Danika explains that foods we crave now are lighter in taste and texture.

“People don’t want anything that is going to weigh them down or be too heavy,” she says.

“Through spring, it is like the gates of the garden are open again and you are able to make a choice from such a brilliant range.”

Later in spring Jamaica Blue will launch a new range of healthier recipes, offering the best of the season with a particular focus on vegetables and healthy eating.

“This is a revamp of the menu and we want to offer a fresh range with simple ingredients, which is what people want at this time of year,” Danika adds.

The breakfast menu will include

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Digital nomads are breaking the rules, emerging as the new breed of workers who live life constantly on the road, combining their careers with travelling the globe.

By John Burfitt

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or many years, writer Ute Junker’s office was usually located in a corner of a Sydney magazine newsroom, working at such a busy pace that she rarely ventured outdoors during working hours.

These days, Ute’s office is often outdoors but in no fixed place.

It might be in a café on a beach, the back of a bus, the corner of a hotel lobby or an airplane seat, as all work is completed on her laptop while connected to the internet.

Ute estimates she works as hard as ever as a freelance travel writer, but does so as she constantly travels the world.

Ute is a ‘digital nomad’, the people who work full-time in their careers, but do so from any place in the world – as long as there is Wi-Fi and good mobile phone reception available.

“When I switched from editing magazines to freelance writing about 15 years ago, I decided to spend three months each year travelling – and back then, that meant taking time off work as there was no easy way to stay connected,” Ute explains.

“Thanks to the spread of Wi-Fi

across the world, these days I can work wherever I am. And I love not knowing where I will be next month; sleeping in a remote village in the Acadian mountains, speeding across Japan in a bullet train or strolling along a tropical beach.”

The online revolution that has occurred in recent decades has changed the way the world

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among the recent lands Ute has travelled to include Mexico, Zimbabwe and Japan, there is also the reality of earning an income while being constantly on the move. There is also the even tougher reality of having a career that can be done remotely. “You really do work twice as hard when you are on the

road, as you might spend all day exploring a destination, and then you still have to get through your emails, attend to the business and then work on writing up stories. “You also have to be wellorganised. I may be travelling through Africa when I get commissioned to write a story about a South American trip I

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operates and for many people, their jobs can now be just as easily completed while working in a hotel room in Timbuktu as it can in an office in a city tower in downtown Melbourne.

While the possibilities seem endless, the reality is it takes commitment to make life as a digital nomad work. For all the great adventures to be had, and

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LIFE ON THE ROAD Ute and Sara offer these tips for anyone considering embarking on life as a fellow digital nomad.

- Be sure your work can easily be completed online and by telephone.

- Be disciplined to always set a working routine.

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did months before, so I need access to all files where ever I am. The only way to stay on top of those things is early mornings and late nights – and that gets tiring.”

It was two years ago that Sara Nguyen, a website designer and online campaign manager, and her husband David left Australia to become digital nomads.

Since then, the couple has travelled to Hong Kong, Serbia and the Czech Republic. They commit to working eight hours each day, and once the work is done, allow themselves the freedom to go exploring.

“When we arrive in a new place, we stay for up to three months, so that gives us plenty of time to see everything,” she says. “I like to keep

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experiencing new places and different cultures as we go.”

But for all the adventure and variety her way of life offers, Sara admits it is not for everyone.

“Being in a country where you don’t speak the language and are not familiar with the culture puts you way out of your comfort zone – and culture shock is not something all people deal with well,”she adds.

“Many people also ask if I get lonely being away from friends and family all the time and the answer is no. There are lots of communities for digital nomads and travellers, like www.internations.com and www.meetup.com that allows you to connect with like-minded people and the locals.”

- Be flexible to deal with ever-changing circumstances and locations.

- Be sure to have access to everything you need, with as little luggage as possible.

- Be prepared to live out of a suitcase – and to enjoy it.

- Be ready to step beyond your comfort zone.

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Grand Finals Weekend in Melbourne and Sydney is about far more than just a football game. Both cities make it one of the best party events of the year. By Blake Dennis

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he Melbourne Cup in November carries a couple of titles, including ‘the event that stops the nation’ as well as, ‘the sporting event of the year’.

While the first claim is indeed true, the second is definitely questionable. There is one weekend on the annual calendar – the first in October – that has the biggest stadiums in the two biggest cities at full capacity, with television audiences around the world captivated by the telecasts.

Grand Finals weekend in Melbourne and Sydney is no longer just a big sporting carnival, but has become a

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major tourism event. The majestic competition of the weekend – AFL at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday, October 1 and NRL at Sydney’s ANZ Stadium on Sunday, October 2 - has fans of two very different football codes cheering from one coast to the other.

But Grand Finals weekend is not just for sports lovers. For all the colour and spectacle, it is also one of the biggest tourism events on the annual calendar as sporting fans pack up their team colours and descend on both cities to join in the festivities.

And in recent years, the

celebrations have taken on a new dimension as Victoria added the AFL Grand Final Holiday on the Friday before the big game, turning it into a three-day long weekend. There is also the AFL Grand Final Parade which weaves through the city, providing a chance for supporters to see their favourite players who will play in the big game.

In 2014, Melbourne City Council issued the findings of a tourism report that claimed the AFL Grand Final generates $36 million of economic activity. Another report from Victoria University noted that Australian Rules Football has

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an impact of about $1.6 billion each year on the Victorian economy.

The Melbourne Cricket Ground has an official capacity of 100,000 and the Grand Final is claimed as the best attended domestic club championship event in the world.

And in Sydney, the NRL Grand Final attracts an estimated

20,000 visitors to the city, adding almost $20 million to the economy. ANZ Stadium, which hosted the events of the 2000 Olympic Games, has a capacity of 83,000.

Now Brisbane looks like it is about to muscle into this territory, with reports that the sunshine city is the favourite to wrestle the 2019 NRL grand

MUST DO IN MELBOURNE ON GRAND FINAL WEEKEND  Sleep in on the Friday morning – it’s a public holiday and with all the events of the coming days, you will need to be rested  Head to the Old Treasury Building from midday to witness the AFL Grand Final Parade, as it makes its way to the MCG.  As Melbourne is Australia’s food and wine capital, navigate the city’s maze of alleyways and drop into a café or bar.  Get to the MCG early and make the most of the entertainment. It is an all-day feast of colour and

final away from Sydney in a major coup for Queensland rugby league fans. This would also make it the first time the NRL ultimate event would be played outside of Sydney, while the ANZ Stadium undergoes a major renovation, although Melbourne, Perth and Auckland are also said to be in the running.

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celebrations before kick-off.  If you’re not in the MCG, choose carefully which pub to watch the game and be sure to barrack for the right team. Melbourne takes club competition very seriously.

MUST DO IN sydney ON GRAND FINAL WEEKEND  Grab a ticket to the big game and head out to Olympic Park by ferry up the Parramatta River.  Once through the gates, wear your team’s colours and get swept up by the excitement of the game.  Be sure to watch the half-time entertainment.

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as the what is played in the stadium.  If you fail to snare a ticket, head to a popular pub with a giant screen to watch the game. One near the harbour and with views is ideal.  Once it’s all over, follow the crowds to Darling Harbour to continue the revelry. In recent years, the night has culminated in fireworks.

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Kerry Washington in Scandal

a sign of the times TV political dramas are riding high in a new golden era, which some claim is a reflection of the real-life times we’re living through. By John Burfitt

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hink back over some of the wilder political headlines of this year, that have come out of Canberra, Washington, London and Europe as various campaigns have been waged.

Now think back to some of the wilder storylines of television political dramas like House of Cards, Madam Secretary and Scandal, and closer to home on Secret City and The Code.

So, which of the scenarios seemed more far-fetched? The ones being played out as news headlines, like Prime Ministers being removed in leadership coups and presidential candidates talking about building giant walls, or the antics of Frank Underwood in

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House of Cards or the backroom scheming of the Prime Minister’s office in Secret City?

It’s just too close to call, which is one of the reasons why political TV drama is currently enjoying a golden era, according to writer Steve Lewis. Along with fellow journalist Chris Uhlmann, Lewis wrote the novels The Marmalade Files and The Mandarin Code, on which Secret City is based upon.

“The fact that there is so much good political TV drama from all around the world tells you there is such an appetite right now for these kind of stories,” Lewis says.

“With everything we have seen played out for real in the news, there is an inherent distrust of politics and of our leaders, and

so people are able to relate to political TV dramas and believe these kind of things actually happen – which indeed they do.

And they are such compelling tales to follow.

“We have had people comment about the characters in Secret City that we don’t portray the politicians in a favourable light, and I always respond, ‘but we are just trying to be realistic!’ I believe that lack of faith in our leaders is one of the key reasons driving this surge of political drama as a popular TV genre.”

Not that political dramas are anything new on TV. The Kennedy years in the White House had numerous US TV incarnations, as did the troubled years of the Johnson and Nixon

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fascination with the outrageous through to laughter at the ridiculous.

Take the hilarious antics of Selina Meyers in Veep, which is a world away from the hardline negotiations of Elizabeth McCord in Madam Secretary and the soap-laden passion of Scandal or the ruthless scheming in House of Cards.

Closer to home, the success of The Code and Secret City has proven there is just as strong a local appetite as well.

“Political dramas are in part some reaction to the political culture of the day,” Michael Idato, Fairfax Media’s senior TV writer says.

“The West Wing was born in the final days of the Clinton presidency as the American sphere was shifting, and newer series like House of Cards and Secret City are materialising at a time when there is such a widespread failure of political

machinery, with the likes of the Brexit schism and the Trump campaign.”

Idato says the changing tastes of the TV audience in their choices makes a huge statement about the times we are living through and offers a suggestion of what is yet to come on our screens.

“What this suggests is that perhaps audiences use television to explore themes which have a profound realworld impact and so they see TV as a safe place to explore provocative ideas,” Idato says.

“I think we’re probably nearing the end of the House of Cards - era, at the same time we are seeing some dramatic shifts in the real-world political arena.

Newer political dramas may find ways to explore the shifts we are seeing which will be even more reflective of the times we are living through.”

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administrations. Later, The West Wing ran for seven, Emmy winning seasons to become a TV staple.

UK TV has had no shortage of political offerings either, running the gamut from the many seasons of the comedy Yes Minister through to the complex dramas of The Deal, Absolute Power, The Wire and the original version of House of Cards.

Closer to home, Australian political dramas have been sparse, with only a few offerings like the series Our Man In Canberra in 1972 and the blistering real-life saga of The Dismissal mini-series in 1983.

But never in TV history has there been such a wealth of political series, and crossing such a wide range of topics, as the recent years have offered.

With all the farce and intrigue, all the secrets and lies, politics really does offer the perfect material for a TV series, with a

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Forget feeling like you need to change everything about your approach to fitness this spring. Taking just one step can achieve real results. By Blake Dennis

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While great intentions are always to be applauded and having a goal is always important, the simple fact is that taking on too much is usually a recipe for disaster, as even the most committed people burn

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out within a few weeks.

Which is why this spring the plan is to keep it simple, and aim to just adopt one new routine into the busy schedule.

“There is no doubt that having a simple and realistic goal will increase your motivation to achieve real change, prevent boredom from settling in and encourage you to strive to do your best,” University of Sydney fitness consultant Lou Lou Stanley says.

“The first step in making

a lasting change is about awareness. The second step is about taking one small positive action each week, that you know is achievable and, importantly, you will commit to.”

Making A Change According to the current Australian Physical Activity Guidelines, it’s recommended that adults engage in muscle strengthening activities at least two days every week.

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Setting The Routine To establish a new muscle strengthening program, Lou Lou recommends a range of exercises be added to a routine.

Muscle strengthening exercises can include such home-based exercises as sets of push ups, squats and side planks, or even a program of simple hand weight drills.

Alternatively, head to the local park for a set of pull ups on a bar, or even dips off the side of a bench.

“This is all so easy and, aside from the hand weights, you do not need any equipment, just your own body weight and a routine to follow,” she adds.

“The best thing is even small increases in a routine will have health benefits. Among just some of the benefits of muscle strengthening include management of blood pressure and cholesterol levels, preventing heart disease and type 2 diabetes, improving posture and balance and a positive mental health.”

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For the best outcomes with this new routine, Lou Lou says it is best to follow a few simple rules.

“Attempt to train your body 2 – 3 times a week to begin with.

With each exercise, attempt about 10 repetitions of each exercise, trying for 1 – 3 sets of each.

“Most importantly, choose something you enjoy and is easy to fit into your day. And by adding just this one new routine, you could be making all the difference for the future.”

In addition to taking on one fitness goal for this spring, Brisbane Weight Loss Coach and Consultant Leanne Sklavenitis also offers one dietary change that could have meaningful consequences.

“I tell my clients if they want to change just one thing, cut down on as much sugar as they can,” Leanne says. “We need to be choosing far better foods and drinks to be fueling our brains and our lifestyles other than sugar.”

Leanne acknowledges that while cutting out sugar can be a real challenge, the benefits of doing so are significant.

“Cutting right back on sugar will just allow your entire system to function better, and it is helping to prevent issues like diabetes down the track.

“And if you cut down on sugar, you will drop weight. I have seen my clients lose up to six kilos within a matter of three weeks just by cutting out soft drinks from their diets. It can have that big an impact.”

Keeping a food journal for just one week this spring, of everything you consume, can offer a major insight into areas that might need changing.

“That can be such a revelation and just by seeing it all written down, you see what needs attention,” she says. “Even if it is only one habit you change, it can make such a difference.”

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Recent research reveals, however, that less than 20 per cent of the population comes close to meeting these guidelines.

Lou Lou suggests adopting muscle strengthening training – of any kind – as the one fitness routine to adopt this spring.

“While everyone knows how great aerobic activity in fitness training is, there’s such important evidence highlighting the importance of muscle strengthening.”

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PUTTING IT TOGETHER An interior design overhaul of the family home does not need to break the bank, and could well change the way your entire home looks and functions.

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t’s one thing to have a love of all things about the home, and it’s another thing to have an understanding of good home interior design. The two passions, however, often exist in different worlds.

“I think that’s because while most people do love their homes, when it comes to casting a critical over the interior design and knowing what to do with it, that is when they get overwhelmed by the task at hand and just don’t know what to do about it.”

So says Alex Butta, an Interior Decorator at Freedom Furniture in Melbourne. For all the readilyaccessible ideas that have become available through TV shows like Better Homes and Gardens and House Rules, along with interior bibles like Home Beautiful, the reality is there is a saturation of interior information about splashbacks, skirting boards and scatter cushions to sort through.

Breaking the Pattern As a result, a sense of paralysis can set in, as well as a sense of familiarity. Owners may know they want to tackle the interior design of the place, but they lost sight of what they want to

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achieve long ago.

“We deal with so many people who know their home can be so much more, but they have been looking at the same place for so long they no longer can see it any other way than in its present state,” Alex adds. “That’s when they need someone to come in with a whole new perspective.”

Which is where decorators like Alex can make the world of difference. While hiring an interior designer to assist with the outfit of the home once seemed like an extravagance out of reach for most people, Freedom Furniture has an Interior Decorator Service in which a decorator will visit a home to come up with a design concept, for a rate beginning at $150.

FundamentalS of Good Design Alex says it is the ability to step into a home and see it through fresh eyes which is the real benefit of the service.

“Good design is about being smart about working with what you have and what is available to add to it,” Alex says.

“There is a slight fear that if someone is going to have a

decorator work on their home, it will be turned into a showroom that is stripped of all its character – and no one wants that. It is more a matter of working the aspects the owners love and that reflects their personality, and working that into the mix with a range of new pieces and items we will recommend.”

Creating an Impact Among the areas a designer pays attention to includes room flow, size and scale of furniture, colour choices and lighting tones.

It is how each room of the

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Having something that catches your attention can create the ‘wow’ factor.”

The lighting of the room and the choice of the globes can make a huge impression on the appearance of the room.

“Too many people underestimate the lighting of the room and the impact it can have,” she says. “The tones of the light bulbs you chose could well change the colour of the room, the furniture and your moods as well. It is one area that needs more attention than people give it.”

Alex says Spring is a brilliant time to give any home a style makeover, and insists it does not need to be complicated.

Fresh flowers – “Flowers or greenery breathes life into a room and adds a colourful touch.”

Textures – “Natural materials like timbers and fabric weaves make a place feel really cosy.”

Linking Pieces – “You can have a walnut piece and oak piece in the same room, but have two of each piece so it all balances.”

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home flows into the next which Alex says often requires the most attention, along with the choices of colour and lighting in each space.

“One of the first things I can do – and anyone can do this – is to walk back out the front door and then in again, thinking of all the ways the flow of the house could be improved,” she says. “You need to determine if there is an easier flow from room to room.

“Also, when you walk into a space, what is the first thing you look at and what do you want to have as a focus of the room?

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JB relationships New research shows that old school ways of meeting people now come a close second to the fast-paced online dating world

By Rachel Smith, advice columnist and co-writer of dating and sex advice book, Get Lucky.

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ack in the day, finding love happened more often than not in the workplace, at your friend’s BBQ, or in an otherwise face-to-face scenario we largely took for granted.

But with the explosion of digital technology and the fact that 2.6 billion people around the world (including 89 per cent of Australians) have a smartphone, it’s little surprise that dating has changed. A lot.

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profiles, downloading apps like Tinder at a rate of 1000 a day and finding people not just to love, but to marry.

According to a study commissioned by eHarmony and conducted by the University of Chicago’s Department of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, 35 per cent of couples who married between 2005 and 2012 met online – and were slightly more likely to stay together than those who met via other means.

So, where are the places the marrying kind are heading to find love right now?

We went exploring…

Online dating sites www.rsvp.com.au www.eharmony.com.au Dating sites are a dime a dozen and the one you choose may depend on anything from how easy it is to use, to whether your cousin’s brother’s best friend swears by it because she met the love of her life on there!

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has initiated 11,000 marriages since launching in Australia in 2007.

Tinder www.gotinder.com Tinder has evolved since its launch in September 2012, and these days, 32 per cent of the app’s 50 million users are aged between 25 - 32, and most are using it to find long-lasting love. Its premise is simple: it links to your Facebook profile and enables you to check out Tinder profiles by swiping right to the green ‘heart’ if you like the look of someone (you swipe left if you don’t and voila – that person disappears forever). Just beware that you could come across Tinder profiles of your ex, best friend’s dodgy husband, or too-close-for-comfort family members!

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www.coffeemeetsbagel.com This app launched in New York and, also via Facebook, connects people through their mutual friends – sending you potential matches, aka ‘bagels’, daily. If you want to start somewhere and in a way that isn’t too overwhelming, this could well be it.

Future dating predictions So what does the future look like? Mind-boggling, to say the least.

1. Virtual reality dating No more rocking up to your first coffee date and realising there’s no chemistry. In the future, a full-sensory virtual reality dating experience could be available from the comfort of your own home – where you smell and even touch potential dates.

2. DNA matching From a biological perspective we’re primed to seek partners who’d be a good genetic match for us, and researchers say in the future, as DNA testing becomes cheaper, it could be a key in the dating process.

3. Behavioural matching.

How you react to certain situations or the lifestyle you lead could – with the help of ‘wearable’ technology – be the key in matching you up with like-minded partners.

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There are basically two different types of dating sites – match making ones which require you to answer lengthy questionnaires, then sort through your choices and give you a short-list of matches, like eHarmony.

The other type are open search sites like RSVP, which let you do the legwork. Success rates differ; RSVP claims 1 in 5 who’ve used it have married or found a life partner, while eHarmony says its ‘compatibility matching system’

www.happn.com We see so many of the same people on our way to work, on the train, at the bus stop.

Chances are, they’ve noticed us, too – and if you’re both single, that’s an opportunity! But how to make your approach if you’re too shy or not sure of that person’s relationship status? Happn, an app launched in Paris in 2014, is making it well, happen, by exploiting digital technology to create old school connections with people who cross your path every day. Like Tinder, but relying on geographical proximity to work, it links into your Facebook profile and enables you to ‘like’ or ‘pass’ on people who’ve ‘happn’d’ across your path that day.

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Developing a mentor relationship can prove to be a smart game changer in taking your career in brave new directions. By John Burfitt

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here was a time when mentoring was considered as something people just starting their climb on the career ladder actively pursued as a way of finding the right direction to follow.

In recent years, the social media revolution has shone a new light on mentoring as an important process for people at any stage of their careers to be involved with.

Take a look at any of the posts on social media hubs like LinkedIn and invariably,

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there will be a post of some kind extolling the virtues of mentoring, the importance of it for career progression and how to find one.

By definition, a mentor is a senior or more experienced individual who acts as an advisor, counsellor, or guide to an another professional or trainee. The mentor takes on the role of providing support and feedback to that individual.

A key to success Whether you are a senior corporate executive or in the

early stages of your professional training, mentoring can assist to build a dynamic community where professional advice and insights can be offered to help achieve personal and professional goals.

Melbourne career trainer Louise Davis says the direct approach taken by the millennials generation now making their mark on the workplace, has seen mentoring now playing a far greater role in the business environment. “This is something the millennials generation

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about having someone whose advice you value and trust.”

And that offering of advice is no longer, Davis says, from older professionals to younger. “I have recently seen many mature business people being mentored by younger people, to have a better understanding of the rules regarding millennials.

It is a relationship that can work both ways.”

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en Stark knows a thing or two about good mentoring.

As Jamaica Blue’s Senior Operations Consultant, Ben is in charge of mentoring new franchisees in the most effective ways of setting up a business.

Having mentored many franchisees through the process of opening a Jamaica Blue café, Ben offers some golden rules about what mentoring is – and is not.

“Mentoring is not about telling people what to do and forcing people to follow your direction,” he says.

“A mentor should smoothly guide a person who is embarking on a new project, offer advice when asked and act as a sounding board for all their ideas.”

The most important quality of a good mentor, Ben adds, is to provide assurance for the various goals a person is attempting to achieve.

“Assurance is the key, offering a guiding hand into the right direction,” he says. “It is taking the experience you have had and based on that wisdom, offering direction where it is relevant.”

“When it comes to mentoring, it’s about learning to trust yourself, and knowing when it’s time to seek support.”

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completely gets - they are very proactive about where they want to go and being clear about what they have to do to get there,” Davis says.

“And they well understand that having a mentor to help guide and advise them along the way is one of the smartest things they can do as they are setting out on their new career path.

“Having a mentor is about having someone who will listen to your ideas and who can offer advice.

You can brainstorm with them and use them as a sounding board to get another point of view. It is

For some people, a mentor relationship is one that evolves naturally with an older person in the same field, be it a trusted friend, a former school teacher, university lecturer or previous boss. For others, however, a mentor is someone they seek out.

Recruitment specialist Catriona Watt Herron of CV Saviour says anyone in business, no matter what stage their career is at, should be seeking out a mentor.

“Mentoring often crops up in conversations with both the graduate clients I work with, and those who have more established careers but feel that their careers have stalled or become stagnant,” Catriona explains.

“I have reaped the benefits from a couple of significant mentors in my career, and found it incredibly reassuring and challenging to have an advocate who understood my goals, helped guide my progress towards those goals, and from whom I was able to seek advice and bounce ideas around with.

“I'm quite confident I wouldn't have had the early career development and embraced the shifts in career focus I have had, without the benefit of these early relationships.”

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JB lifestyle CAREER Whether you want to put your retirement years to good use, or are looking for a weekend hobby with a difference, there’s a passion project to suit your dreams – no matter how big or small. By Shane Conroy

For the petrol head

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Always dreamed of roaring down the freeway in your own custom-built Shelby Cobra? Put your mechanical know-how to the test and build your own replica Cobra with a car kit (www.gforcesportscars.com.au) that you can put together in your home workshop.

If the wide-open ocean is more your speed, an aluminium boat kit (www.nomadmarinekits.com) could be right up your alley. Start with a simple dinghy, or throw caution to the wind and build a 12-metre catamaran that can hold 12 people.

If cars and boats just don’t deliver enough adrenaline for you, then taking off into the great blue yonder in an ultra-light aircraft will quench your thirst. Try a self-build kit (www.aircraftkits. com.au) for a fully enclosed twoseat aircraft to make your flying dreams come true.

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excitement of your youth?

Programs like the Weekend Warriors (www.weekendwarriors. org.au) can connect you with like-minded rockers in your area to jam in a welcoming, nonjudgemental environment.

They say everyone has a book in them. Find out if they’re right and set your fingers typing on a memoir or that work of fiction you’ve been putting off for years.

And with self-publishing (www. xlibris.com.au) becoming easier – and cheaper – by the day, you don’t even need a big publisher to get your words out there.

For the foodie Food blogs are all the rage at the moment, so why not document your own culinary creations on the world wide web? It’s not as difficult as you might think – websites like Wordpress (www.

wordpress.com) and Squarespace (www.squarespace.com) provide step-by-step instructions to create your own blog. Then it’s time to do your best Nigella impression.

There’s nothing like homegrown veggies to improve your game in the kitchen. If you have the space, greenhouse kits (www.growfreshgreenhouses. com.au) are relatively inexpensive and will extend the growing season. Otherwise, dedicate a garden bed or two to your kitchen garden project and feast on the spoils.

Home-made food preserves have come roaring back into fashion over the last few years, so if your kitchen garden is producing more than you can eat, start a market stall to sell your home-made jams, pickles or sauces. You might even become the next Maggie Beer.

For the artistically minded From painting to pottery, community centres offer a range of art classes where you can stretch your creative muscles.

Whether it’s watercolours that get you going or it’s photography that raises your pulse rate, get busy creating your own masterpiece.

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ACCENTUATE THE POSIT Despite the grand claims, some fitness promises fail to stand up when put to the myth busting test.

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espite the best of intentions, there’s often an enormous difference between what the bold coverlines on the fitness magazines promise and the reality of what can actually be achieved.

The rules about fitness seem to change every few years, and just as one concept is being adopted, another set of rules come along to change everything. Which means a lot of myths are created along the way of what can be achieved - and what can’t.

This can make getting into a new routine just a little bit harder. But for all the changing rules and dramatic myths, what must remain, explains personal trainer Kathryn Weihen of

FitnessU education group, is taking a basic, commonsense approach.

“Just remember that getting fit takes time, and despite everything you hear, there really are no quick fixes or short cuts,” she says. “If it took you a while to get out of shape, be patient as it might take a while to get back into shape again. But with each step, you are one step closer to your goal. Just don’t let yourself be too easily misguided by promises that are almost impossible to keep.”

So, we asked Kathryn to guide us through some of the great fitness myths that get plenty of attention, and to put them to the test to determine whether they are hits or misses.

Myth

fitness website Mark's Daily Apple, "for every gram of stored carbohydrate – also known as glycogen - three to four grams of water are stored as well.”

Verdict: Miss

Drop a dress size in one week.

“This is highly unlikely, and it’s just not realistic unless you've been ill with gastro or food poisoning! The guidelines still say that the average weekly weight loss amount is between 0.5 - 1kg per week, with a number of factors to consider such as exercise, food intake, current height and weight.

Initial weight loss is mostly in fluid when carbohydrate intake and pro-inflammatory foods have been removed from the diet. According to US

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Myth 10 Days to a flat stomach.

“There are so many factors that contribute to someone holding body fat around their midsection, including hormones, digestion, training frequency and intensity, type of exercise and sleep. All of those play a role in how your body stores

fat. Strengthening your core muscles is important as part of whole body conditioning.

A restriction in carbohydrates and increase in exercise may cause a change in your body but for lasting change, it is important to address many factors, like diet, sleep and training.”

Verdict: Miss

Myth Change your life in 30 days.

“The research suggests it takes 21 days to form a new habit.

Depending upon how great or

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temperature. Sweating is water loss, not fat loss and we sweat when we exercise in order for our body to maintain a safe internal body temperature. Some people are naturally bigger sweaters than others but this does not mean they are sweating the fat away any more than the person next to them.”

Verdict: Miss

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Sweat that fat away.

“Examining this myth clinically, sweating is a regulatory system of the body to control its

Less than 40 minutes of exercise is a waste of time.

“There are just so many variables around this statement, as it really

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does depend upon the individual’s goals and fitness level. For instance, someone training for a half marathon of about 21.1km which may well take over three hours to complete would need to train for longer than 40 minutes in order to train their body to last the distance. A largely overweight person, however, who has never exercised in their life may only be able to handle 20 minutes of exercise at a time.”

Verdict: Miss

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large that change is, it actually could change your life! Habits are routine patterns or behaviour done on regular basis, so to make a change or to have a new habit, the actions must be done routinely on a regular basis.

Whether it changes your life will depend upon your perception of it!”

Verdict: Hit

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Heels, $169.95, Wittner, wittner.com.au

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JB books

SPRING READS

By Sarah Megginson

Coach Yourself

Rebound

By J.M. Peace Publisher: Macmillan What could be better than an edge-of-your-seat thriller influenced by the real experiences of the police officer who penned it? The Twisted Knot is set in Angel’s Crossing, where a gang of justice-seekers are gathering to uncover the truth behind paedophile rumours amongst the community. They assume they’ve found the culprit when a man is found hanging in his shed. However, Constable Samantha Willis’ own investigation turns up more secrets, an unexplained crime and motives of revenge. The Gold Coast Bulletin rightly commented that this book “grabs your attention from the very first line.”

By Muffy Churches Publisher: Love & Write Publishing This one is an absolute must-read for anyone looking to inject a boost of confidence into their lives! Coach Yourself features an easy-to-follow, seven-step guide to changing your life and allowing positivity to affect everything from your career to lifestyle and relationships. Written by success coach Muffy Churches, this book shows you how to coach yourself through life’s challenges, how to redirect anxieties into positive results, and explains the power of the mind in relation to happiness, potential and life experiences. The balance of advice, exercises and resources in this book will inspire to make positive change – and who couldn’t benefit from that?!

By Aga Lesiwicz Publisher: Macmillan This debut psychological thriller is guaranteed to keep you up at night, telling the story of successful Anna, who has everything a woman could want – or so it seems. On one of her regular nightly runs, she takes an unchartered turn and bumps into a stranger. Things begin to crumble from here, as a series of disturbing events in Anna’s personal life pressure her into acting in ways she never thought imaginable. With fantastic characters and an addictive pacing that will have you dying to reach ‘the event’, Rebound is a truly compelling story. Good luck putting this one down!

Beyond Belief

Beyond Belief, in an effort to discover how us humans find fulfilment and relate to life when we’re not certain about God. Told from an Australian perspective for an Australian audience, Beyond Belief manages to discuss a controversial topic with an invigorating tone that leaves room for readers to consider new perspectives.

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By Hugh Mackay Publisher: Macmillan Australia Two-thirds of Australians believe in God or an equivalent ‘higher power’, and yet less than one in 10 Australians attend church weekly. Prized author and social researcher Hugh Mackay explores these and other confusing statistics in his non-fiction book,

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100 Desserts to Die For

By Trish Deseine Publisher: Murdoch Books Beloved food writer and former BBC TV cooking show host Trish Deseine is at it again, this time serving us up 100 unique and tantalisingly delicious dessert recipes to entice the sweet tooth in all of us. All the recipes can be made from home, making them ideal for dinner parties, children’s birthdays, and just about any other occasion

(or excuse!) you can think of.

You definitely don’t need to be a seasoned chef to get the most out of the recipes, and just a glimpse across the first few pages will show you why Trish has sold over one million copies of her cook books. Just like me, you’ll definitely have your favourite recipes picked out in no time!

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small town on the Irish coast to escape her demons, where she meets charismatic Edward.

Still, the nightmares of home wait for her. What will happen when she returns to face them?

This honest, bittersweet story – which outsold 50 Shades of Grey in France – leaves a sense of hope, and will have even the most cynical readers believing in the magic of love.

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By Agnes Martin-Lugand Publisher: Allen & Unwin Diane’s life is about as ideal as it gets: a wife and mother, she’s also the owner of a charming literary café in Paris. But everything falls apart when a tragic accident changes everything, leaving her too scarred to keep living.

She abandons her home one year later and relocates to a

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The rise of the internet and in particular social media over the past few years has seen a parallel increase in the rise of nutrition confusion and perpetuation of nutrition myths. Social media provides a level playing field for anyone with an interest in food or nutrition to have a say.

While a variety of opinions is useful for providing different perspectives on issues, it can also be challenging to sort fact from fiction and to identify which information to believe and which to ignore. Here I provide answers to four common nutrition myths that are circulating currently.

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Myth Dried fruit is higher in sugar than fresh fruit.

On a recommended serving size basis, dried fruit contains the same amount of sugar as fresh fruit, the key difference however is that as the water has been removed, dried fruit tastes sweeter because the sugars have become more concentrated. Plums for example are 89% water while dried plums (prunes) are 37% water. The loss of around 50g of water per 100g means the sugars become more concentrated and prunes taste sweeter than plums. Prunes provide 31g sugars per 100g while plums provide 6.5g. However, a

serving of fresh plums is 150g, providing around 9g sugars while a serving of prunes is 30g, also providing around 9g sugars. If the recommended portion size of dried fruit is eaten, the overall intake of sugars and kilojoules is the same as it is from fresh fruit. It’s important to know that dried fruit does not have any added sugar and all of the sugar in dried fruit is natural. When it comes to fruit, aim to eat mostly fresh fruit however dried fruit can be included for variety and is particularly good for naturally sweetening dishes such as desserts, cakes or muffins and can be used in sauces to reduce the amount of added sugar used.

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Myth

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best way to nourish the body is through whole fresh foods.

Myth I need to quit sugar to be healthy ‘Quitting sugar’ has become something of a catchphrase recently, popularised further by various celebrities who attribute this dietary strategy to successful weight loss or a youthful appearance. However there is a lack of evidence to support the need for complete avoidance of sugar in our daily diets. In fact the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends a target of up to 10% of total energy intake (kilojoules) from ‘free sugars’ as a guide for good health. Free sugars include added sugars like table sugar and sugar added to foods during manufacture, along with sugars from fruit juice, honey and fruit juice concentrates. The level of 10% of daily energy equates to around 50-60g free sugars per day for an adult of normal weight, or 12-15 teaspoons.

Results from the latest Australian Health Survey show that our average intake of free sugar is 10.9% of total energy intake, so as a population we are just above the recommended cut off. What this means is that Australians are consuming about 2 teaspoons more sugar a day than what is recommended, the majority of which comes from soft drinks, followed by spreads like honey, jams and syrups. So aiming to make dietary changes that lead to a reduction in the intake of added sugars may be beneficial, however there is no need to ‘quit sugar’ altogether – particularly as it contributes

significantly to the taste and enjoyment of many of the foods we enjoy as part of celebrations and special events.

Myth I need to avoid full fat dairy foods to reduce my risk of heart disease One of the common recommendations to reduce the risk of heart disease has been to switch from full fat dairy foods to low and reduced fat varieties. However, research in this area is changing and is indicating that full fat dairy foods are likely one less food we need to worry about. As dairy foods contain a synergistic ‘package’ of nutrients, including calcium, protein, vitamin D, potassium and phosphorus, this combination might counterbalance the unfavourable effects that were previously attributed to saturated fat alone (the predominant type of fat found in dairy foods). Again, this indicates that it’s important to focus on the whole food and the context of a person’s overall diet rather than just one nutrient when it comes to assessing the health benefits of foods.

Overall, it’s important to be wary of nutrition advice you read on the internet or through social media channels. Always check the person disseminating the information has university nutrition qualifications otherwise you may well be better off ignoring it!

Sharon Natoli Accredited Practising Dietitian Food & Nutrition Australia

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Taking a multi-vitamin daily provides insurance against a poor diet Supplements should not replace a healthy diet, as the best way for the body to receive nutrients is through food. There have been many studies demonstrating that when nutrients are delivered within the matrix of a whole food, they are often more bioavailable than when they are delivered to the body as a supplement. A well known example is the more efficient absorption of iron from red meat in a form called heam iron, compared to supplemental iron which is in a non-heam form.

Omega-3 supplements are another example. An Australian study found that while taking omega-3 supplements has no effect on reducing heart disease risk, eating fish regularly is protective. This indicates that fish contains more factors than just omega-3s that are acting together to help promote good heart health.

A number of large studies have also shown that antioxidants, including beta carotene, vitamins C and E, and the minerals selenium and zinc, are ineffective in the prevention or reversal of one of the key risk factors for heart disease, while eating whole fruit and veg is protective.

Overall, while supplements may be useful in the short-term for the correction of a diagnosed nutrient deficiency, such as irondeficiency anaemia, or for people at various life stages or who have a condition that indicates they have higher nutritional needs, such as pregnancy, lactation or intense physical training, the

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JB recipeS

SPRING RECIPES With the warmer weather upon us it's time to mix it up in the kitchen with these easy and delicious recipes. Bon Appétit!

Ingredients   

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¼ cup white vinegar 8 slices halloumi 4 tbsp. caramelised onion (premade from supermarket) 4 eggs 4 bread rolls or brioche 4 tbsp. aioli 200g rocket 1 avocado

Method  Place a medium pot of water on the stove and fill it up with 2 litres of water and ¼ cup of vinegar.

Bring to the boil.  Turn on the grill, or oven (to 180 degrees)  Cut the avocado in half and remove the seed. Remove the avocado from the skin with a spoon, then slice into thin strips.  Heat a large fry pan to medium heat. When hot add the halloumi and cook on both sides until golden. Remove from the pan and set aside on a tray.  In the same pan, place the caramelised onion to warm through. Remove when hot and place on the tray with the haloumi.  In the pot of boiling water, poach 4 eggs. Remove when cooked.  Cut the brioche in half and toast in the grill or oven.  To assemble, place the aioli on the base of the bun, followed by the caramelised onion. Then add the rocket, halloumi, avocado and poached egg. Place the lid of the brioche on the side and serve.

halLoumi & AVOCADO BREAKFAST ROLLS

Makes 4 rolls

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Ingredients 2.5kg chicken wings 480ml espresso coffee (chilled)  1L hot water  1L buttermilk  500g plain flour  2 tbsp. paprika  4 tbsp. salt  1 tbsp. ground black pepper  4 tbsp. ground coffee  2L canola oil  ½ cup Rocket  250g aioli

Method  With the chicken wings, use a chopping board and cut the tips off the wings and discard. Next, cut the wings in half at the joint to separate each wing into two pieces.  Pre–heat oven to 180C. Divide the chicken wings between two deep baking dishes. Mix 240ml of the espresso coffee with 1L of hot water in a large jug. Pour coffee and water mix evenly over the wings to cover them.  Cover the baking dishes with aluminium foil and then place in the oven for 30 minutes to poach the chicken.  Mix the buttermilk with the remaining 240ml of chilled espresso coffee and set aside in the fridge until required.  Next combine the flour, paprika, salt, pepper and ground coffee together in a large bowl and mix to combine evenly, place into a dry air tight container and reserve for later.  Once the wings are cooked, remove from the oven and discard foil.  Strain off the liquid and discard.

Allow the wings to cool for 15 – 20 minutes.  Add the cooled wings to the buttermilk mixture and keep in the fridge to marinade for at least 2 

ESPRESSO COFFEE WINGS

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hours before use.

To Serve  Preheat oven to 120 degrees.  Pre–heat the canola oil in a pot to 180 degrees.  Strain the buttermilk off the wings, and place the wings into the flour mixture. Roll the wings through the flour mixture to coat evenly.  Shake off any excess flour and

place 5 chicken wings into the oil.

Cook the wings until golden and crispy, then remove and place on a baking tray. Place the tray in the oven to keep warm.  Continue the process until all the wings are cooked.  To serve, place the rocket on a platter and then top with wings.  Serve with a side of aioli sauce.

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