Asparagus is the best at de-bloating, since it helps flush out the bad stuff.

Work out to music that's fun for you. I like a good beat; something from Jay-Z or Eminem.

Blueberries, strawberries, and broccoli are all high in vitamins.

Here's a universal truth: If you're not working out in the morning, you probably won't do it later in the day, either.

To me, loving your kids means teaching them to make smart choices from an early age - not just handing over a sweet treat.

What applies when we're younger maybe doesn't so much when we get a little bit older.

Avocado is one of my favourite fruits, and my daughters and I love avocado in salads, and even in smoothies.

Whole eggs are practically a perfect food.

It's true of models in general - I don't think they eat and fuel properly throughout the day.

If you're going to have a piece of pie, have it. I love pecan pie - but it won't be with ice cream; it won't be with whipped cream.

Remember that it's never too late and you're never too old to get the body you were born to have.

Most of the time, I am quite familiar with the airports from which and to which I am traveling, and I know what I can eat there. If there is any doubt, I make sure I have something in my bag. A must-have for me is pre-measured protein powder in small Ziploc bags along with a shaker cup.

There are things we do out of habit that are not always good for us. Break the bad habits and develop some good ones.

Lie and tell the waiter that you're deathly allergic to butter. This way you can enjoy the steak without all the excess fat.

Steer clear of anything fried.

When training intelligently, 'one size doesn't fit all.' There are exercises and weights appropriate for some body types, ages, and overall objectives and not for others.

Eating processed foods will prevent you from losing weight and shedding fat.

An ordinary pushup is much more advanced and challenging performed on a stability ball.

You want to have fun and try new things but also shock your muscles with new workouts so that you keep your body guessing and get the maximum results from your workout.

Instead of a woman who is starving herself to be a size 0, give me a healthy woman who is a size 8 or 10 any day.

If the mind is not healthy, you'll never get a sound body.

I'm sure strength-and-power people have been using kettlebells for years, but that doesn't necessarily mean they will work in a general training program.

Jumping on something too fast can be a mistake. Tae Bo was once the latest and greatest craze, but where is it now?

Women can overdo it in their commitment to muscle development.

Feeling your clothes fitting better is going to make you feel better.

From closing the digital divide to after-school activities and eating well, we cannot afford to ignore the link between deprivation and underachievement.

Many black youths are defying stereotypes, achieving good academic results, finding employment and contributing to their communities. But helping those who fall behind is not an exercise in political correctness, it is a precisely what a compassionate - and sensible - state should concern itself with.

A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right.

Ultimately, we must either abandon our reliance on stop and search or abandon any hope for a criminal justice system grounded in equality, impartiality and fairness.

I knew what it was to be poor... my mother worried about putting food on the table. I knew what it was to feel excluded and shut out, but I also knew what it was to experience love and generosity.

Like many black men growing up in London, I have been stopped and searched by several policemen. I was 12 years old when I was first groped and frisked by police for walking down the road. It terrified me so much I wet myself.

As I have consistently recommended, we desperately need to find more black judges, particularly females, who are chronically underrepresented in our courts across London and the U.K.

I was obsessed with Nelson Mandela. I had big posters of him in my bedroom and he became my proxy father figure. He was in jail, so I could project all sorts of things about what he would say to me.

I certainly knew the hard side of urban life, stop-and-search.

We need specific work on race equality programmes and programmes targeted at helping those who are yet to fulfil their potential.

People don't contest that I'm British as a black man, but they do contest that I'm English. Too many people are going back to an ethnocentric idea of what being English means.

I'm not going to be cowed by the rampant racism, the organised racism, that comes from parts of the alt-right.

When I was a young child and before he had left us for the U.S., my father would give me Mark Twain novels. In the characters, the weather and the context, my father must have seen many parallels to his own youth in the Caribbean in the 1930s and 40s.

You can't be in business with international development and not understand basic issues of colonialism, postcolonialism and white privilege.

A good life depends on the strength of our relationships with family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and strangers.

I think that's always something when you're working class, when you're aware of things that you haven't had; there are moments when you question yourself, definitely.

White supremacy is not confined to strange men in the Deep South who put on white cloaks, it is not confined to strange gatherings of the English Defence League.

Football is a great way for me to catch up with my sons, and to let off some steam from my professional life.

Reading international law at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London was a wonderful experience. With its incredibly diverse student population, I began to immerse myself in the ways social, legal and political forces contribute to human rights and freedoms.

Too much of the Brexit rhetoric is based on the desire to go out and re-create Empire.

We will not achieve gender equality in the workplace until we fix our system of parental leave.

The 1980s were tough for most of Britain, but nowhere more so than Tottenham.

Plenty of people are intrigued by their family history. Growing up as the son of West Indian immigrants who moved to London in the 1950s and 60s, I was especially fascinated by anecdotes about the lives of my Guyanese relatives, which seemed a million miles away from Tottenham's Broadwater Farm estate.

Prejudice is not just a personal sentiment - it can be institutional too.

My wife does all the driving.