‘Once upon a time, mommy had a tummy tuck …’
Zoe Williams: A children's book written for four to seven year olds about extensive plastic surgery entitled My Beautiful Mommy, is to be published in the US
Forget deadlines. I’m in it for the long haul
Kira Cochrane: While I obviously understand the concept of calories out and calories in, I suspect that at the root of a huge amount of extra poundage lie not specific foods so much as diet deadlines and dread
Introducing the ten minute boob job
The latest quick beauty fix is the breast enhancement. It claims to increase cup size without going under the knife. But would you risk it? Here, Alice Hart-Davis describes her painful transformation
Beauty Queen
The pitfalls of DIY products and using laser
All the pout with none of the trout?
Quick-fix cosmetic treatments have doubled in Britain in the last year. But with recent health warnings, is the lunch-hour jab really safe?
Fat boy slimmer
Lifetime foodie and restaurant critic, Jay Rayner was never going to get into 34-inch Levi's. Or was he? After six hard months at the gym, he's already a shadow of his former self
Five gurus, four weeks, one sceptic
Face all blotchy? Waistline a touch wobbly? Spine unaligned? Rachel Cooke visits the experts who promise the ultimate mind and body makeover
Criticism is all very well – but don’t tell me I’m betraying all women
Kira Cochrane: Can you imagine anyone saying Charles Saatchi that he's betrayed the entire male population by losing weight?
My clothes aren’t hanging off me but some are getting their first airing in years
Kira Cochrane: I have been keeping a food diary, trying to balance my daily intake at around the 1,500-calorie mark
The reluctant dieter
Kira Cochrane: When is it OK to look a gift horse in the mouth? When the gift is colonic cleansing ...