TRIED & TESTED | Delo Water-Boosting Caps

I KNOW everyone's supposed to go mental over the Harrod's Food Hall, but, for me, it's the Selfridges Food Hall that makes me get a little spend-crazy. It's bursting with edible treasures, arranges in walls of vibrant colors and wrapping. Rows of diaphanous merengues abutt beautiful cakes and pastel rounds of chocolate across from exotic coral slabs of sushi-grade salmon. Bottles of viscous, amber Karo syrup rub shoulders with pots of glowing English mustard. In the mix, between Yo Sushi and the bakery you'll find the modern, minimal, bright and tiny boxes housing Delo Water-Boosting Caps.

Inside each is a mix of plant concentrates and extracts. Screw it onto the mouth of your water bottle (French half-litre is what they're made for) and the seal breaks, releasing the extracts into l'eau. Extracts include Ginseng, Acerola, Guarana, Ginger, Galagal, Cardamom, Carrot, Rosehip, Mallow, Hawthorn, Orange Blossom, Yerba Mate, Green Tea, Mango, Kiwi, Lychee, Bitter Orange, Walnut and Calamint.

Energy, Sexy, Slim, Sun and De-Stress are the options. I've used and like both the Energy and De-Stress on a regular basis since their launch at the Colette Water Bar in 2007.

If you're looking for the benefits of herbal tea or supplments on the run, this might be the thing for you. Plus, it's hard not to be a sucker for their pretty packaging, like a moth to the fire...

Delo Water-Boosting Caps

EXPERT SECRETS | The best workout you've never heard of... Bodyrock.tv

IF YOU can peel your eyes away from Zuzana Light's impressive implants and actually follow the killer workouts she's leading in her online videos, you'll have access to one of the best at-home exercise tools you'll ever use.

They're so hard you might consider them masochistic, but these vidoes are more effective than hour-long gym sessions. Sayonara Cindy Crawford and your 2-pound dumbells. I'm trading you in for Zuzana and Freddie.

Zuzana's workouts? Tough. Make-me-collapse-in-a-sweaty-mess tough. In just 12 minutes.

The diet and workout challenges they create can last days, weeks or months, giving you the chance to workout and eat alongside the ultra-sexy (and super nice) Zuzana and (quiet fit in a Johnny-Knoxville-sort-of-way) husband Freddie, meaning you're not repeating the same dull movements day in and out.

There's nothing that kills motivation quicker than boredom and that's what you'll get doing the exact same video every day. Unless you plan on buying hundreds of workout DVDs, or having a Netflix queue dedicated exclusively to the Shape series, that's what's going to happen.

Not so with bodyrock.tv, where there are new bite-sized workouts loaded constantly with hundreds of commentors testifying to just how helpful, motivating and transformational they really are.

Burpees, mountain climbers, lizard crawls, pike jumps, high knees and other old-school exercises sit side-by-side with new-fangled ways to make your muscles quiver. Backdrops can be anywhere from a rooftop in Italy to Zuzanna and Freddie's Canadian living room. Many of the workouts use just body weight for resistance. When weights and tools are used they're pretty basic... sandbags, interval times and occasional free weights. (In place of the gymbox interval timer Zuzana uses, I use my iPhone's stopwatch function.)

Try out the warm up routines or some of my favourites like the Sexy Pain Train Workout, Suicidal Sweat Workout and Crazy Home Bootcamp Workout.

Price of your gym membership gathering dust? Thousands a year.

Price of lifetime of new, fun and really hard workouts courtesy of Bodyrock.tv? FREE.

Like Bodyrock.tv on Facebook and subscribe to their Youtube.com channel and you'll have no excuses to keep sitting on your a**.

Join the "home workout movement" now and feel less bloated this holiday season without having to dedicate hours to the gym and its rows upon rows of dreadmills.

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FROM THE FRONT | High Fructose Corn Syrup becomes Corn Sugar

WATCHING YOUR weight? You’ll have a new ingredient to look out for on ingredient lists then because High Fructose Corn Syrup is being re-named Corn Sugar.

Studies over the years claimed that HCFS was no worse than regular sugar (I don’t have the data on who funded those studies), but a recent (March 2010) Princeton University study linked consumption of HCFS to considerably higher weight gain than diets where the same amount of calories are consumed, but the subjects ate regular sugar instead.

Since 1970 there’s been a 1000% increase in the consumption of the stuff and in that same time, obesity has sky rocketed in the US. Causation or correlation? Not my place to say.

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Image credit: http://consumerist.com/2008/08/are-you-fighting-the-war-on-high-fructose-corn-syrup.html