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Teach yourself willpower

Can't commit to the gym? Struggle to stay on a diet? The solution could be simpler than you think

I don't even have the will power to read the whole article! lol

- Steph, Spain, 17/10/2011 9:37 Rating 6

I will obviously have to watch it and see, but this sounds like a good English role model for our children instead of that awful Rastamouse.

- Marjorie Dowdle (Mrs), Dorchester, 18/10/2011 21:25

Mondays might be the best day to start a healthy eating plan but it doesn't take long before most dieters are reaching for the biscuit tin.

The use of a seemingly ordinary mouth spray might be the solution to curbing those cravings.

Full Fast, a new appetite suppressant has landed in the U.K.

The 100 per cent natural product lists its secret ingredient as Griffonia, a source of Serotonin that controls the feeling of being full.

Pictures taken from When I Were A Meerkat by Andrew Davies (Portico/Anova books, £9.99)

Computer wizardry my @rse. Just mediocre retouching to appeal to the feeble-minded who hanker for "the good old days" (that never existed BTW). Oh, and I think that Getty Images should be credited on this article - after all, they own the rights to the originals.
- Carlos The Badger, Underpants, 27/10/2011 13:25

The photo is included on the DVD A Century Of Old Hitchin In Film which will be launched next week by Hitchin Historical Society.

Bemused and slightly perplexed the First XI hockey team from Hitchin Boys' Grammar School look on as a visiting team of adult German players raise their arms for the Nazi salute. Their crisp uniforms contrasting with the somewhat more relaxed PE kit of the English schoolboys and with little inkling of the full horror of what the Nazi salute re The German team, clad in immaculate white shorts, crack off a Nazi salute as they face opponents from Hitchin Boys' Grammar School in March 1939. War was to break out later that year

i purchased this for my 96 year old mother and she had great fun in sharing this round her friends at the pensioners club they all agreed it was great fun to read

Ah, the past. A time when children could play in the snow without a helmet, crampons and a risk assessment report. When footballs were made from rhino hide and cricket was played with one pad, if you were lucky. When I Were a Lad...looks at the glorious-yet-risky childhoods of yesteryear before the Health and Safety officers told us we couldn't do everything because it was too dangerous. It reflects on a time when children were allowed in with the animals at London Zoo; a time before the car seatbelt was invented (let alone used); a time when you were allowed to dress up endangered species in goalkeeping kit and take penalties against them. The authors have trawled through the major historic archives to find some glorious photo opportunities where the safety angle of the participants was the last thing anyone thought of. Children perch happily on lethal, limb-mangling machinery, stand all-smiles on live crocodiles, feed brown bears with their hands and get scooped from the street by passing tram conductors! These truly were the days that Health and Safety forgot, back when I were a lad...