* Dad’s weekly wages spent on girl’s food… while rest of family go hungry
* Daughter demands food from neighbours when she’s finished eating
* Rolls on floor crying and eats MUD if parents refuse to feed her
* Muches 15 biscuits and TEN bananas (and that’s just for an afternoon snack)

Standing just 3ft 5ins tall and weighing a staggering 14st 5lbs, this child weighs five times more than she should.

Suman Khatun is believed to be one of the world’s fattest kids – and eats enough food each week to feed her entire village.

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Towels come in handy for sopping up sweat; it’s rarer for them to be responsible for it. But for the past few weeks, a folded-up towel has added a new twist to my workouts.

Leah Wilson has been a Toronto-based trainer for more than nine years. Recently, when working with a client, she experimented with a towel as a way to further engage muscle groups using body weight instead of free weights.

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Engage Your Pelvic Floor

You’ve probably heard of Kegels before, right? By engaging your pelvic floor (act as though you’re trying to stop your urine midstream) before and during any abs exercise you perform, you better engage your transverse abdominals, which act as a girdle for your entire core.

This helps give you a tighter midsection-quite literally-all the way around!

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Slimmers should start snacking on blueberries, as they slash the number of fat cells in the body by up to three-quarters, say scientists.

Researchers found the fruit can break down existing fat cells and prevent new ones from forming, making them a potentially powerful weapon in the fight against rising obesity.

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As a registered dietitian in private practice, it’s something I often hear when I meet clients for the first time. “Why can’t I lose weight? I eat healthfully, don’t touch desserts and exercise regularly but the scale won’t budge. I think I’m doing everything right.”

People often wonder if their inability to lose weight is the result of a sluggish metabolism, an underactive thyroid or simply bad genes. Almost always the answer is no.

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Not that we’re envious (actually, yes, we are), but guys seem to have a much easier time getting fit than women. Sure, their bodies are different, but what if there’s more to it? After looking at men’s traditional workout habits versus women’s, we found that they have a few tricks up their sleeves. For one thing, strength training burns way more calories than cardio alone, and post-workout protein shakes are more than just an excuse to drink a smoothie. But that’s not all! Read on to find out how you can improve your own fitness routine by taking a few tips from the boys.

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Earlier today, we mentioned on The Hot Button that sleep deprivation, while euphoria-inducing, can hamper your judgment. But not getting enough shut-eye can hurt your waistline too.

People who don’t get adequate sleep consume around 300 extra calories a day compared with when they’re well-rested, USA Today reports.

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It’s cold outside. And as the temperature dips, many New Yorkers head indoors to work out, trading the soupy city streets for a treadmill or stationary bike. And that’s where many of us encounter a puzzling (and often dated-looking) diagram pointing out the so-called “fat-burning zone.”

The reason it’s plastered all over the gym? Proponents of the zone argue that it represents a kind of exercise sweet spot-typically between 60 and 70 percent of our maximum heart rate-in which our bodies burn the most fat.

So should we buy into the idea?

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You burn additional calories after a workout session without even trying — which is sort of like a buy one, get one free deal at the supermarket. This concept of continuing to burn extra calories long after you’ve left the gym is called “afterburn.” The amount of calories you burn depends on how long and how hard you work out in the first place.

You’re likely to get the greatest afterburn from a long, hard weight-training workout. In one study, fit men who completed a super-high intensity, 90-minute strength workout, performing 60 sets with little rest in between, experienced an 11 percent metabolism increase for about two hours after the workout. The next morning, 15 hours after the workout, their metabolism was still elevated by a substantial 9 percent, which translated into about 150 extra calories burned. While these numbers are impressive, the workouts were far longer and more strenuous than most people can handle or tolerate on a regular basis without injury or burnout. During a more typical workout — say, three sets of ten exercises — researchers say a generous guesstimate for afterburn add up to no more than 50 to 75 calories total.

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It’s arguably the healthiest diet in the world. The Mediterranean diet – which emphasizes fruit and vegetables, grains, nuts and olive oil – is recognized as the gold standard for promoting good health.

The diet helps guard against heart disease, certain cancers, obesity, diabetes, asthma, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s. And it’s been shown to increase life expectancy.

Now, after reviewing 50 studies conducted on more than 500,000 people, researchers say the diet substantially lowers the risk of metabolic syndrome and is highly protective against all the risk factors that cause the disorder.

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