The Awful Truth: Accepting The Reality To Move Forward

It’s not because your hormones are out of whack, it’s not because you’re ‘big-boned’, you’re not the victim of your genetic endowment, it’s not your parents fault, or society’s, it’s not the education system, or your lack of money, it’s not your job, you’re not a victim of advertising, or government misinformation, or environmental degradation,…

ByJames Gleeson01/12/2019

Re-imagining How You See Yourself

Each of us has a self-manufactured self-image: the alpha male athlete, the smartest girl in the room, the taciturn and bookish mother, the intrepid adventurous father, the surfer girl, the skater boy, the fashionable foodie etc ...but such personalised images are formed when we are young, and as such, are idealised. As we shed the…

ByJames Gleeson05/09/2019

Fitness Health

Weight Training: Your Fitness Foundation Stone

For thousands of generations stretching back two million years, human beings and our early ancestors have done three things with unrelenting consistency: walked, sprinted periodically, and lifted heavy things. Our genetics have been hard-wired to expect and perform best when regularly challenged to lift, push, press and maneuver weighted objects. All manner of health…

ByJames Gleeson23/07/2019

Food & Drink Health News Nutrition Nutrition What's On

The Death of the Supermarket, The Flavour Industry’s Dirty Little Secrets

Large-chain supermarkets are an anachronism and should be consigned to the dustbin of history. They are purveyors of low-quality produce and industrially made “edible food-like substances” that are harming people en masse and should be rejected by anyone concerned with their health and the future of Australia’s agricultural infrastructure. These chains (a notable exception…

ByJames Gleeson26/04/2019

Happiness Mood and Mind Wellness & Health

Happiness Is Boring … Here’s What Jaymes Gleeson Has To Say

It is a truism that happiness, when you’re happy, is a limited commodity, but misery when you are miserable knows no end. Happiness has a ceiling, a limit, beyond which lies torpidity and boredom. Whereas disquiet, uncertainty, angst and disappointment are bottomless wells from which the opportunities to learn are inexhaustible. This is pain’s purpose: to…

ByJames Gleeson26/01/2019

Innovations Technology

Zozo Review: The Clothes of the Future

Having lived in Japan for many years I’ve gained an appreciation for the peculiarly Japanese trait of taking an existing concept, and via ingenious innovation, improving it to a previously not conceived level. This is known as ‘kaizen’. The genius lies not in the improvement of the product itself, but rather the processes behind…

ByJames Gleeson23/01/2019

Food & Drink

Foodies’ Guide: Kepos Street Kitchen Review

Here in Sydney, there simply was no food scene until the late 80s. Before then, our congenital feeling of inferiority, the "cultural cringe", was not limited to the world of refined aesthetics, but also enshrouded our culinary sensibilities in a thick blanket of diffidence. This long winter of our discontent, our “Foodie Dark-Ages” had kept us…

ByJames Gleeson15/11/2018

Food & Drink

Against The Grind’s John Lepouris Shares His Love For Seasonal Food

Café and restaurant culture seen through the prism of high-quality cuisine is thriving in Sydney, but is that a reflection of its cultural endowment, an evolving societal palette, or an upswing in purveyors of high-quality fare? All of these play a role, says restaurateur John Lepouris from Against the Grind in Neutral Bay, “Sydney is…

ByJames Gleeson30/10/2018