Owen Wilson is a dad again

samedi 1 février 2014

Owen Wilson has become a father for the second time, after his personal trainer Caroline Lindqvist gave birth to a son. The couple are not in a relationship or living together, but they have been friends for over a decade.

"Owen plans to be involved with the baby and help raise him," a source told Us Weekly. This is the Wedding Crashers star’s second child, as he has a three-year-old son Robert Ford with his ex-girlfriend Jade Duell.

"He isn't in a relationship with Caroline, nor do they plan to be in one, but he is very supportive of everything," revealed a source after the pregnancy was announced. "They see each other and talk often about what they want for the child.


"Owen is very open-minded about everything and has told Caroline he will do whatever he can."

Caroline, who filed for divorce from her plastic surgeon husband Ritu Chopra in May, lives in an apartment in Santa Monica, while Owen, 44, lives in a $4million (£2.4milllion) mansion in Malibu.

Owen split from former air marshall Jade Duell five months after their Robert’s birth, but he was determined to remain a big part of his first child's life, too.

'I was never like somebody who was like, 'Oh gosh, it's a little baby! Let me hold it," he admitted on TV show Access Hollywood.
 

'They're so fragile, but then when it is your own, all of a sudden you feel a lot more confident. You really do have this bond, this real connection with this thing that a month ago wasn't even here. It is strange... their cries are like beautiful music!'

He also remains on good terms with Jade, who he met when she sat next to him on a flight. Late last year Owen bought her and Robert a $1.4 million (£85,000) house in the Mar Vista area of Los Angeles.

Owen, whose brother Luke Wilson is also a hollywood star, previously had a high profile on-off romance with Kate Hudson.

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Find out how many calories you're burning

vendredi 31 janvier 2014

Most of us are on a health kick following the indulgent festive period. But did you know which exercises help shift the most pounds?

HELLO! Online gives you the lowdown on how many calories you can burn from doing different exercises, including walking and yoga, for one hour based on a female who weighs 140 pounds (10 stone).

Running

Running is a cheap and effective way to get into shape. If you run at 7.5 mph, you can burn a staggering 833 calories.

Walking

If you're after more of a low impact exercise, walking can still be beneficial. A moderate pace of 3 mph will help you burn 220 calories.

Cycling

Cycling is a good way to get some fresh air, tone up and can also be a great family activity. A moderate pace (12-13.9 mph) will burn off 533 calories.

Swimming

This is a minimum low-impact sport that works the entire body and can provide dramatic results. Just a slow place of 50 yards per minute of front crawl will burn off 533 calories.

Zumba

Combining simple dance moves with a hypnotic Latin beat, Zumba is more popular than ever. A total body workout, it can burn 500 calories per hour.

Yoga

While comparatively low in its effectiveness at burning calories – 175 for the hatha method — yoga targets mind, body and soul.

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Five top tips for summer feet

With summer in full swing, celebrities have been taking to Twitter to show off their pedicures.

Rita Ora shared a picture of her getting a gel pedicure, Rihanna showed off her white nails – to match her white heels, Jessica Alba put a natural look on display and Jessie J shared her classic pink-hued toes with her followers.

To make sure your toes are sparkling during this flip-flops-and-sandals only weather, HELLO! Online has compiled five different treatments.

1. Footner has created exfoliating socks to give you baby-soft feet after just one application. The socks reduce calluses and cracked heels and remove dead skin without having to scrub.. Pain-free and easy to use, grab your footner socks at your local Boots store for £19.99.

2. If you’re fussy with your feet and don’t mind spending a little bit extra to jazz up your nail job, splash out on this Red Carpet Manicure Light Pro 45. Using LED reflection lights, it dries your nail vanish in record time leaving you with salon finish nails – all in the comfort of your own home. Available at amazon.co.uk for £89.95.

 

3. Nude nails are all the range for summer 2013. Barry M’s nude nail polish is perfect to subtly glam up those toes for the beach or a night out. Use a base coat then apply the pale nail vanish – it looks great with any outfit. Only £2.99 from Superdrug.

4. For the total pedicure experience, leave your feet in the trusted hands of a leading nail care professionals and invest in OPI’s Pedicure range. Boasting six different types of foot care, this collection is an essential to keep those feet in shape for the summer. The range includes items that allow you to mask, massage, scrub, smooth, soak and soften. All six use various different combinations of tea tree oils, alpha hydroxyl acids and vitamins E and A to pamper and hydrate your feet so you can stun in your summer sandals.

5. Stand out and stay on trend with metallic nails. This Houses of Parliament Magnetic polishcreates a unique nail art effect by the magnetic forces within the vanish. As the magnet is held over the nail, the iron powder in the formulation gravitates toward the magnet forming the pattern/design secretly hidden in the magnet. For £13.00, it's a must..

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Mark Zuckerberg on why Facebook succeeded: 'We just cared more'

Mark Zuckerberg sat down with Savannah Guthrie for an interview airing Tuesday on TODAY.

it's been 10 years since Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, and despite the social network's rapid and massive success, he says he was surprised his brainchild became a household name.

In a television exclusive interview with TODAY's Savannah Guthrie airing Tuesday, Zuckerberg, who will turn 30 this spring, reflected on Facebook's evolution from its beginnings as a network he originally created for his fellow students at Harvard.

"I remember really vividly — you know, having pizza with my friends a day or two after — I opened up the first version of Facebook at my school," he says.

"I was just really excited that we were doing it at one school. And, you know, at the time I thought, 'You know, someone needs to build a service like this for the world.' I always thought that that was this incredibly important thing to have happen. But I just never thought that we'd be the ones to help do it."

Zuckerberg has had a good week, professionally: His personal wealth went up $3.2 billion on Thursday when the company's stock closed at an all-time high. He may be the richest 29-year-old American in history, adjusted for inflation. 

The CEO also shared what he thinks has set Facebook — which hit 1 billion users in 2012 — apart.

"When I look back over the last 10 years, one of the questions that I ask myself is, why were we the ones to help do this? And I think a lot of what it comes down to is, we just cared more."

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Drinking diet soda just makes you eat more

Don't depend on diet soda to help you lose weight. A new study shows that overweight and obese people who drink diet beverages consume more calories from food than heavy people who consume sugary drinks, according to a new Johns Hopkins study.

“When you make that switch from a sugary beverage for a diet beverage, you’re often not changing other things in your diet,” says lead researcher Sara Bleich, associate professor in the department of health policy and management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Bleich and other Johns Hopkins researchers used data from the 1999-2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. For this study, published Thursday in the American Journal of Public Health, they analyzed participants’ recollection of what they’d had to eat and drink over the past 24 hours.

They found that about one in five overweight or obese American adults regularly drinks diet beverages -- that includes soda and low-calorie juices, teas and the like -- which is about twice the amount that healthy-weight adults are drinking. “On the one hand, that’s encouraging. People are being told if you need to cut calories from your diet, discretionary beverages are a great place to start,” Bleich says. 

Diet soda consumption has increased steadily since 1965, when just 3 percent of Americans were regularly drinking the stuff, the study authors write. Sales of diet soda actually declined 7 percent last year, but Bleich thinks that just means habitual diet soda drinkers are switching to the many flavored teas, juices and vitamin-enhanced waters currently on store shelves.

Our bodies fight to try to keep our weight stable, which is one of the reasons weight loss is so hard —and it could help explain why overweight diet soda drinkers may be consuming more calories from solid food. 

For slimmer people, the study suggests that diet drinks can contribute to weight maintenance, explains NBC News diet and health editor Madelyn Fernstrom. 

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How to avoid common beauty mistakes

We're all guilty of the occasional beauty blunder but some common mistakes are easy to avoid – two celebrity make-up artists tell us how.

1. Too much blusher – "The best way to apply blusher is to make sure you have a good quality brush," says Cinta London, one of the leading names in the beauty industry. "Sable hair blend brushes glide across your cheeks and distribute the blusher evenly. Also, remember it's easier to build up colour than take it off, so start off lightly!"

2. Heavy eyebrows – We all want big eyebrows à la Cara Delevingne, but it's important not to go too far. "A small angled brush and an eyeshadow which matches your natural hair colour are the best tools to ensure you don't go too heavy," says Cinta. "For any gaps in your eyebrows, brows should be filled in with soft strokes to resemble single strands of hair, rather than with thick, heavy lines."

3. Smudged mascara – To avoid smudged mascara you should "clean your wand on tissue before applying," says Natalya Nair, a make-up artist on The X Factor. If it's too late, the best solution is to "wet a cotton bud with make-up remover and apply it softly on the smudged zone."

4. Lipstick on the teeth – Place a finger inside your mouth when you have finished applying lipstick and pull it out slowly – this gets all the excess lipstick on your finger, not your teeth," she says.

5. Covering spots – "Look for products with a matte finish," Natalya says. "Sheen will only highlights the spots. Laura Mercier do a Complete Coverage concealer which makes spots disappear."

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Food addicts: New study measures out-of-control eating

New research suggests more than 8 percent of middle aged women may be addicted to food.

While “food addiction” is somewhat controversial, a new study is shedding some light on women who may actually fit the profile of an addict, rather than simply liking chips and dip.

Research released this week online in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition looked at food addiction among 134,000 middle-aged and older women, all of whom participated in the large-scale Nurses’ Health Study. Nearly six percent met the criteria for food addiction as established by the Yale Food Addiction Scale, which was developed in 2009 and validated in numerous trials. 

Middle-aged women fared the worst. Slightly more than 8 percent of women ages 45 to 64 could be considered food addicts, while 3 percent of older women met the criteria.

The Food Addiction Scale asks questions such as: "I find that when I start eating certain foods, I end up eating much more than planned" and "I find myself continuing to consume certain foods even though I am no longer hungry".

“We’re starting to see the patterns with food addictions that we see in other addictions, and one of them is that younger people have more addiction problems,” says addiction specialist Ashley Gearhardt, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who worked on the study along with researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health.

The women who met criteria for food addiction were also more likely to be not married and not currently smoking. Researchers suspect that former smokers have simply traded the nicotine addiction for a food addiction, a process called addiction transference.

Although addiction was strongly associated with a higher body mass index (BMI), the data also show that you can be an average-weight woman or even underweight and have a negative relationship with food. Geography seems to matter, too. Women from the eastern United States seem to have fewer problems with food addiction than those from the South or Midwest, although researchers don’t know why.

The foods of choice for these women were so-called “hyper-palatable” treats that are high in fat, sugar, salt and processing. These foods seem to trigger the brain’s pleasure and reward centers through increases in the transmission of the “feel good” chemical, dopamine.

“The major narrative with every addiction is that people have no willpower,” says Gearhardt, who was one of the developers of the Yale Food Addiction Scale. “We know that’s not true, so we are trying to better understand if there are some foods that can hijack the system, given the right vulnerabilities in a person, and this study helps us identify those individuals.”

Because the researchers looked at a large population, the data may have important clinical implications. “We are finally getting at a distinct subset of individuals who are struggling in a way that looks like substance abuse more than anything else,” says Marlene Schwartz, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, who was not involved in the study. “Saying eat more vegetables and exercise more won’t work with people who are struggling like this.”

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