Oprah Winfrey is taking a dramatic step she hopes will pump some life into her ailing OWN network.

The talk show queen, 57, is returning to the air in a new show called Oprah’s Next Chapter to be broadcast on the cable channel.

The series, which is set to début in January, will show the TV titan meeting and chatting with fellow celebrities in their homes.

The two-hour première will feature Winfrey meeting with Aerosmith front man and American Idol judge Steven Tyler at his family home in New Hampshire.

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It’s the chicken-and-egg question of aging: Do we become less active as we get older because our bodies start to break down, or do our bodies start to break down because we allow ourselves to become less active?

For years, it was widely accepted that humans would start getting slower, weaker and more fragile starting in their 30s. But new studies on topics ranging from the cellular mechanisms of aging to the time-defying performances of masters athletes are forcing researchers to question this orthodoxy. It seems increasingly likely that the first signs of decline are more a function of lifestyle than DNA: If you keep using it, you’ll be well into middle age before you start losing it.

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Demi Moore is determined to grab a slice of Ashton Kutcher’s £90 million fortune – in revenge for the betrayal that led her to seek a divorce.

Miss Moore, 49, once dubbed a cougar who fell for an ambitious toyboy, is said to have instructed her lawyers to ‘punish him financially’.

Her edict is in spite of a pre-nuptial contract with Kutcher, 33 – which she insisted on when they married in 2005.

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She was crowned Miss Bikini America after losing 80lbs following the birth of her second child.

And today fitness model Jennifer Nicole Lee showed just how she keeps herself in such amazing shape.

Wearing a pair of tiny bikini bottoms with the words ‘Big Fun’ emblazoned across the back and a stomach-baring tank worn over a neon pink bra, the 36-year-old raised temperatures in an already balmy Miami as she worked out at a South Beach park.

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If you want to keep excess snacking at bay, include enough protein in your diet. That’s the take-away message from a new study that investigated how the amount of protein consumed affects calorie intake and hunger.

People who followed a lower protein diet – 10 per cent of daily calories – consumed more calories each day than when they consumed a 15-per-cent protein diet. What’s more, the calorie increase was enough to cause a roughly two-pound weight gain each month.

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If you’re looking for ways to fend off colds and flu this winter, consider stocking your vegetable crisper with broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage.

According to new research findings published this month in the journal Cell, these healthy vegetables – known as cruciferous vegetables – can bolster the immune system.

The immune system is made up of a network of cells, tissues and organs and defends the body every day from bacteria, viruses and other invaders. Special immune cells in the skin and gut – intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs) – serve as the body’s first line of defence, producing substances harmful to microbes.

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A McDonald’s muffin marketed as a healthier option contains more salt than one of its burgers.

The fast-food chain’s low-fat blueberry muffin has 1.7g of salt – more than in three packets of ready-salted crisps.

The figures come from health campaigners who claim that simple coffee-break snacks are part of the reason the nation is overdosing on salt every day.

Hidden salt in processed foods is said to be fuelling high blood pressure, strokes and heart attacks, leading to thousands of premature deaths.

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