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The Irish Sun
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
The 45-second trick to get a snatched waist for summer that Love Island star swears by as people hail it ‘new life hack'
WHETHER it's that time of the month or something you've eaten, bloating can affect many of us. It's a common condition that leaves your body feeling tight, stretched, and swollen - and your clothes feeling uncomfortable. 4 Mal Nicol revealed her easy trick to get a snatched waist Credit: Tiktok/@mallurpaal 4 Mal performs a DIY lymphatic drainage on her stomach Credit: Tiktok/@mallurpaal Fizzy drinks, eating certain foods and swallowing air when eating can all lead to bloating. Water retention, constipation, stress and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) can all trigger it too. You might avoid triggers the best you can, but sometimes bloating can feel inescapable. However, there is a treatment celebrities absolutely swear by to reduce it - lymphatic drainage. Lymphatic drainage is a non-invasive treatment that's particularly popular in Brazil. It's a lot like a gentle therapeutic massage and used to alleviate digestive issues, hormonal imbalance, and reduce cellulite. Lymphatic drainage involves massaging inflamed areas with the fingertips in a clockwise motion to stimulate the lymph nodes. And Love Island star Mal Nicol has revealed she swore by the technique on the show to look bikini-ready at all times. Most read in Celebrity in a TikTok video demonstating the technique, she said: "I genuinely did this, but I didn't know this was lymphatic drainage. "I've always done it. Like, any time my belly's out, any time I've ever felt a bit bloated, I would put a bit of cream on so it's a bit glidy [and massage my stomach]. "I remember doing it in the villa when I was in my bikini. "It's really gross. I do it both ways. I always end it this way, clockwise. "It's very weird, but yeah, have a go this summer." Mal's clip - captioned "burping my way to a flat tummy hahahahahh" - went viral with more than 1.6million views. And social media users are loving her simple hack. "Ur so real for this babe", one gushed. A second insisted: "It acc helps so much." 4 Mal says she used the technique in the Love Island villa Credit: ITV 4 She demonstrated the hack in a quick video Credit: Tiktok/@mallurpaal A third echoed: "Crying, this is my new life hack now." "Brb, burping myself rn", joked a fourth. A fifth added: "Why is this so funny but such a good to know hack." Meanwhile, a sixth said: "Love thissss, my new routine." What are the after effects of lymphatic drainage? Lymphatic drainage has physical, and mental benefits. The treatment reduces swelling around the target area, but it can also leave you feeling calmer, energised and more focused. Physiotherapist and lymphatic drainage expert, She explains: 'After treatment, reduced bloating or constipation are the main benefits, and it helps settle IBS flare-ups. 'You feel lighter, flatter and less bloated. 'But it also helps with brain fog, memory, and improves your mental health, as some feel more energised, with greater focus and concentration. "But, it depends on each individual.' When is the best time to have lymphatic drainage? 'There is no best treatment time,' says Flavia. Read more on the Irish Sun 'Lymphatic treatments are recommended to flush out toxins and excess water retention from progesterone (PMS), but it is beneficial after a period to help with body detoxification.' While the effects of lymphatic drainage can be noticeable immediately, they can also last for up to ten days post treatment, depending on your metabolism and lifestyle, which is why Flavia recommends MLD every ten days.
Scottish Sun
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
The 45-second trick to get a snatched waist for summer that Love Island star swears by as people hail it ‘new life hack'
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) WHETHER it's that time of the month or something you've eaten, bloating can affect many of us. It's a common condition that leaves your body feeling tight, stretched, and swollen - and your clothes feeling uncomfortable. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 4 Mal Nicol revealed her easy trick to get a snatched waist Credit: Tiktok/@mallurpaal 4 Mal performs a DIY lymphatic drainage on her stomach Credit: Tiktok/@mallurpaal Fizzy drinks, eating certain foods and swallowing air when eating can all lead to bloating. Water retention, constipation, stress and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) can all trigger it too. You might avoid triggers the best you can, but sometimes bloating can feel inescapable. However, there is a treatment celebrities absolutely swear by to reduce it - lymphatic drainage. Lymphatic drainage is a non-invasive treatment that's particularly popular in Brazil. It's a lot like a gentle therapeutic massage and used to alleviate digestive issues, hormonal imbalance, and reduce cellulite. Lymphatic drainage involves massaging inflamed areas with the fingertips in a clockwise motion to stimulate the lymph nodes. And Love Island star Mal Nicol has revealed she swore by the technique on the show to look bikini-ready at all times. in a TikTok video demonstating the technique, she said: "I genuinely did this, but I didn't know this was lymphatic drainage. "I've always done it. Like, any time my belly's out, any time I've ever felt a bit bloated, I would put a bit of cream on so it's a bit glidy [and massage my stomach]. "I remember doing it in the villa when I was in my bikini. "It's really gross. I do it both ways. I always end it this way, clockwise. "It's very weird, but yeah, have a go this summer." Mal's clip - captioned "burping my way to a flat tummy hahahahahh" - went viral with more than 1.6million views. And social media users are loving her simple hack. "Ur so real for this babe", one gushed. A second insisted: "It acc helps so much." 4 Mal says she used the technique in the Love Island villa Credit: ITV 4 She demonstrated the hack in a quick video Credit: Tiktok/@mallurpaal A third echoed: "Crying, this is my new life hack now." "Brb, burping myself rn", joked a fourth. A fifth added: "Why is this so funny but such a good to know hack." Meanwhile, a sixth said: "Love thissss, my new routine." What are the after effects of lymphatic drainage? Lymphatic drainage has physical, and mental benefits. The treatment reduces swelling around the target area, but it can also leave you feeling calmer, energised and more focused. Physiotherapist and lymphatic drainage expert, Flavia Morellato, has worked her wonders on Maya Jama, as well as supermodel Lottie Moss, presenters Rochelle Humes, Vogue Williams, and singers Ellie Goulding and Anne-Marie. She explains: 'After treatment, reduced bloating or constipation are the main benefits, and it helps settle IBS flare-ups. 'You feel lighter, flatter and less bloated. 'But it also helps with brain fog, memory, and improves your mental health, as some feel more energised, with greater focus and concentration. "But, it depends on each individual.' When is the best time to have lymphatic drainage? 'There is no best treatment time,' says Flavia. 'Lymphatic treatments are recommended to flush out toxins and excess water retention from progesterone (PMS), but it is beneficial after a period to help with body detoxification.' While the effects of lymphatic drainage can be noticeable immediately, they can also last for up to ten days post treatment, depending on your metabolism and lifestyle, which is why Flavia recommends MLD every ten days.
Los Angeles Times
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Jennifer Givhan's otherworldly ‘Salt Bones' is infused with Mexican American and Indigenous culture
An early line from 'Salt Bones,' the latest novel from talented poet and novelist Jennifer Givhan, reads, 'Daughters disappear here.' It is a line that haunts the Salton Sea region, where Givhan has set her latest novel and infuses the toxic air upon which her characters must survive. In other words, this warning to keep your daughters close clings to everything. It is in the air, but also — in this thriller that employs elements of magical realism and mystery — it is in the water, buffeting each of these characters with the cadence of windblown waves crashing against the shore. The Salton Sea is just as much a character here as Givhan's main protagonists: Mal, a mother of two daughters, and the two daughters themselves — Amaranta, in high school, and Griselda, a science major in college. Through them, we get a sense of this place, what it was, what it is and what it is becoming. A sea that evaporates and pulls back year after year, exposing a lake bed contaminated with agricultural runoff and revealing not just the bones of fish but also a painful history that many would rather remains beneath the water's surface. El Valle, the fictional town that serves as the primary setting for 'Salt Bones,' is haunted by what surrounds it. By the memories of the missing. Daughters like Mal's own sister, Elena, who disappeared more than 20 years before. Now with two daughters of her own, Mal is a butcher at the local carnicería. But when one of the workers at the shop, Renata, a young woman the same age as Mal's eldest daughter, doesn't show up for work one day, Mal begins to spiral into the past, questioning what she could have done differently, and then what she could do now. And, most of all, why does all of this seem to keep happening here in El Valle? For Mal and her family, there is no escape. They are followed not just by memories, but also by Mal's mother's spite-fueled dementia, which returns all of them again and again to the fissures in time just before and just after the disappearance of Mal's sister. And now, with Renata gone missing, there is nowhere to hide from the tragedy of this place, not at work, not at home and not even at the edges of the Salton Sea where Mal can sometimes find a tenuous peace. But it is not just Mal who roams these shores, but La Siguanaba, a shape-shifter often associated with Central American and Mexican folklore, wearing 'whatever a man lusts after most. Sequins. Spandex. Fishnet. Nothing at all.' And then after enticing these men to approach, this being — often described as a woman — turns and reveals the 'white-boned skull of a horse' beneath her long dark hair. 'By the time they scream,' Givhan writes, 'it's too late.' La Siguanaba is a cautionary tale and a myth to some in El Valle. She is a ghost story to keep the kids safe and away from danger, but to Mal, she is very real. La Siguanaba comes to her in dreams; in her waking hours, she lurks just beyond the light. Her smell — something like urine and unmucked stables — floats on the wind, acting like a warning, a memory, a message. But all this — the monster in the shadows, the missing daughters and even a rising tension in El Valle over a lithium plant and a looming ecological disaster — is only part of the story. Mal can only know so much, and it is through the details revealed by Mal's daughters, Amaranta and Griselda, that we begin to comprehend the depth of this story. Like all good mysteries, there is a whole world just out of reach: secret lives, secrets kept, secrets used like currency. For us — the readers — the clues are there. Givhan does a wonderful job infusing the early pages with hints and observations from each of the three perspectives, Mal, Amaranta and Griselda, all of whom are hiding things from each other. To the reader, who benefits from the combined knowledge of these characters, each perspective adds a different lens. Mal, with her mother's intuition and almost otherworldly connection to La Siguanaba, Amaranta, who is the youngest and still very much a child and who sees what others don't expect her to, and then Griselda, home from college, who looks on all of this with a fresh, almost outside perspective. All of them come to the same conclusion very early on: Something is very off in this small community. 'Salt Bones' is a worthy read. It's a book infused with the language and culture of a strong Mexican American and Indigenous community. In some way, like La Siguanaba, it's a conduit into another world. A complicated, real and very much welcome, if a bit scary, world. And though the layering of information — of what we know, what remains hidden from us and what has been foreshadowed — does add up (delaying what becomes a propulsive search for the missing in the second half of the novel), Givhan's talents as a writer of blunt, strong sentences and remarkable poetic passages regarding the landscape and the sea more than make up for any delay. 'Salt Bones' is a triumph. One of the most masterful marriages of horror, mystery, thriller and literary writing that I've read in some time. And it is certainly a book that will haunt you (in a good way!) for a very long time after you've turned the final page. Waite is the author of four novels and a book critic for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Hindustan Times
13-07-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Bengal: TMC zonal president shot dead in Birbhum, third such incident in 3 days
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress (TMC) zonal unit president Pijush Ghosh was shot dead early Sunday in West Bengal's Birbhum district, making him the second TMC zonal leader and third party worker to be killed in the last three days, police said. Pijush Ghosh had left home on his motorcycle around 12.30 am after receiving a phone call. (Shutterstock/ Representative photo) Ghosh, president of the TMC's Sirindhipur zonal unit and an office bearer of the local panchayat samity in Birbhum, had left home on his motorcycle around 12.30 am after receiving a phone call. 'A woman, identified as Mousumi Mal, allegedly saw a man shooting Ghosh from behind around 2 am. Ghosh went to meet Mal, a preliminary probe has revealed,' a police officer, requesting anonymity, said. Mal reportedly raised an alarm after she found Ghosh on the road outside her home with a bullet injury to the head. 'She was standing at the main door when Ghosh was shot. It appears he died on the spot. Some people took the bleeding victim to hospital but did not inform the police,' the officer added. Police have detained three people, including Mal, for questioning. 'No one has been arrested yet,' the officer said. Also Read: West Bengal: Unidentified assailants murder local TMC leader near Kolkata Ghosh used to sell sand from local riverbeds, which allegedly had led to clashes between rival TMC groups in the past. 'Politics took his life. I repeatedly begged him to leave politics and the business but he never listened. The government should provide a job for my son. How will we survive?' the deceased's wife Tista Ghosh said. His sister-in-law, Shanti, said that Ghosh was receiving death threats since the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. 'Notes threatening my brother-in-law with dire consequences if he did not give up the party post were pasted on our main door,' she said. TMC MLA Abhijit Sinha from Birbhum's Labpur alleged a conspiracy behind the murder. 'Of course there was a conspiracy. Someone called Ghosh up at midnight and he left home. We have requested the police not to spare anyone,' said Sinha. Also Read: WB: TMC panchayat samity leader shot at in Cooch Behar; BJP MLA's son arrested Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state unit president Samik Bhattacharya targeted the ruling party and said, 'Infighting in TMC has reached a level where people in the party are killing each other. Bengal is witnessing an anarchy.' Rajjak Khan, a TMC anchal president from Bhangar in South 24 Parganas district, was murdered on Thursday, following which police arrested Mofajjel Mollah, a local TMC leader, on Sunday. Also Read: West Bengal CM 'in shock' as senior TMC leader shot dead by assailants in Malda Mollah, who was sent to police custody for seven days for allegedly killing Khan, declined to comment. His wife, Muslima Khatun, said, 'I don't know why the police arrested my husband (Mollah). He and Rajjak Bhai were close friends. Rajjak Bhai used to frequently come to our home.' 'Preliminary investigation indicates that there was a rivalry between Khan and Mofajjel Mollah,' a police officer said, requesting anonymity. Abul Kalam Azad, a TMC panchayat-level worker, was hacked to death while celebrating his birthday on Thursday at Englishbazar in Malda district. Four TMC workers were arrested by Sunday.
Hindustan Times
13-07-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Bengal: TMC zonal president shot dead in Birbhum, 3rd party worker killed in 3 days
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress (TMC) zonal unit president Pijush Ghosh was shot dead early Sunday in West Bengal's Birbhum district, making him the second TMC zonal leader and third party worker to be killed in the last three days, police said. Pijush Ghosh had left home on his motorcycle around 12.30 am after receiving a phone call. (Shutterstock/ Representative photo) Ghosh, president of the TMC's Sirindhipur zonal unit and an office bearer of the local panchayat samity in Birbhum, had left home on his motorcycle around 12.30 am after receiving a phone call. 'A woman, identified as Mousumi Mal, allegedly saw a man shooting Ghosh from behind around 2 am. Ghosh went to meet Mal, a preliminary probe has revealed,' a police officer, requesting anonymity, said. Mal reportedly raised an alarm after she found Ghosh on the road outside her home with a bullet injury to the head. 'She was standing at the main door when Ghosh was shot. It appears he died on the spot. Some people took the bleeding victim to hospital but did not inform the police,' the officer added. Police have detained three people, including Mal, for questioning. 'No one has been arrested yet,' the officer said. Also Read: West Bengal: Unidentified assailants murder local TMC leader near Kolkata Ghosh used to sell sand from local riverbeds, which allegedly had led to clashes between rival TMC groups in the past. 'Politics took his life. I repeatedly begged him to leave politics and the business but he never listened. The government should provide a job for my son. How will we survive?' the deceased's wife Tista Ghosh said. His sister-in-law, Shanti, said that Ghosh was receiving death threats since the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. 'Notes threatening my brother-in-law with dire consequences if he did not give up the party post were pasted on our main door,' she said. TMC MLA Abhijit Sinha from Birbhum's Labpur alleged a conspiracy behind the murder. 'Of course there was a conspiracy. Someone called Ghosh up at midnight and he left home. We have requested the police not to spare anyone,' said Sinha. Also Read: WB: TMC panchayat samity leader shot at in Cooch Behar; BJP MLA's son arrested Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state unit president Samik Bhattacharya targeted the ruling party and said, 'Infighting in TMC has reached a level where people in the party are killing each other. Bengal is witnessing an anarchy.' Rajjak Khan, a TMC anchal president from Bhangar in South 24 Parganas district, was murdered on Thursday, following which police arrested Mofajjel Mollah, a local TMC leader, on Sunday. Also Read: West Bengal CM 'in shock' as senior TMC leader shot dead by assailants in Malda Mollah, who was sent to police custody for seven days for allegedly killing Khan, declined to comment. His wife, Muslima Khatun, said, 'I don't know why the police arrested my husband (Mollah). He and Rajjak Bhai were close friends. Rajjak Bhai used to frequently come to our home.' 'Preliminary investigation indicates that there was a rivalry between Khan and Mofajjel Mollah,' a police officer said, requesting anonymity. Abul Kalam Azad, a TMC panchayat-level worker, was hacked to death while celebrating his birthday on Thursday at Englishbazar in Malda district. Four TMC workers were arrested by Sunday.
