Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
The elder son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill, Douglas received his Bachelor of Arts in Drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His early acting roles included film, stage, and television productions. Douglas first achieved prominence for his performance in the ABC police procedural television series The Streets of San Francisco, for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations.
Davina McCall's gruelling diet regime and secret to gym-honed figure
dailyrecord.co.ukTV presenter Davina McCall has opened up on her strict diet regime. The presenter, 56, follows an intermittent fasting plan, which involves not eating for certain periods of time.
Mum -of-three Davina is famous for her washboard abs and sculpted arms - but she has always insisted that she has to work very hard to stay in shape.The ITV My Mum, Your Dad host revealed she doesn't eat anything between 8pm and 10.30am, adding: “I used to snack all evening and didn’t see anything wrong with it as I was reaching for healthy foods, such as carrots and hummus… Since putting a cut-off point on my eating, I crave (snacks) so much less and wake up feeling better.”The former Big Brother presenter has been vocal in championing women’s issues, including contraception and the menopause, having produced documentaries on both subjects and a book (titled Menopausing) on the latter.In Channel 4 documentary Davina McCall’s Pill Revolution, she was filmed having a coil fitted to help dispel misinformation around contraception.
She's keen to encourage other people to work out their best exercise regime and diet if they're facing the menapause.She said: “It’s much harder to keep quality muscle during and after the menopause, so eating enough protein is important”.She also said “beast mode” training does not work for her the way it used to, saying a recent workout session on holiday had left her “with backache and Achilles pain”.She added: “At my age, ‘beast mode’ training doesn’t work for me like it used to.
I prefer to stick to lower-intensity strength training sessions using weighted and bodyweight movements.”Davina also spoke about her interest in blue zones, saying that for her and her partner, hairdresser Michael Douglas, “being around
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