Drop a dress size. Double your energy. Two weeks to a better body. Or bad breath and gallons of cabbage soup… diets tend to promise one thing and deliver another. With new programmes being introduced all the time, sometimes it's difficult to sort the desirable from the disastrous...

Drop a dress size. Double your energy. Two weeks to a better body. Or bad breath and gallons of cabbage soup… diets tend to promise one thing and deliver another. With new programmes being introduced all the time, sometimes it's difficult to sort the desirable from the disastrous...

is thought to be the key: "We think that these women are in a ‘low-energy’ state, meaning they are expending more calories than they are replenishing with dietary intake," says Professor Anne Loucks of Ohio University in the USA. The theory goes

: www.ecomaratonadeimarsi.it100Km del Passatore (May) 2009 Date: May 30If you’ve indulged in too much pasta, this classic Italian ultra will give you the opportunity to burn some extra calories. The point-to-point 100K sees runners race from the historic

for nine days, losing 13kg of weight before he was rescued.The compulsory kit list includes an anti-venom pump, distress flare and at least 2,000 calories of food per day.Runners are allowed to send one email a day. They're also allowed to receive emails

fewer calories every day to maintain your weight. Also, what you’re eating becomes even more important. A variety of fresh fruit and vegetables will give you the antioxidants your body needs to protect it from the damaging free radicals created

burns about 100 per cent more calories than usual when it's trying to repair an injury. "It's important that you feed your body what it needs to mend," says Dr Liz Applegate, author of Nutrition Basics for Better Performance.  She recommends boosting