Yoga show

With no Glastonbury this year, you might consider getting your festival fix at the Great British Yoga Festival in Dorset over the May 30-June 4 bank holiday weekend, (0796 232 3064, greatbritishyogafestival.co.uk). It costs from £340 per person inclusive (cheaper for children), and camping, music, festival food, stalls, lashings of yoga and hair-braiding (probably) will be present and correct. While 4am might feasibly be bedtime at Glastonbury, it's wake-up time at this event, in time for yoga, prayer and chanting before breakfast. There are talks and workshops to choose from throughout the day (the focus is on kundalini yoga) and it's lights out after a nice cup of herbal tea at 9.30pm. Hmm, maybe I'll put up the tent in the garden instead.

The future's bright

There are many good reasons to don sports sunglasses for outdoor workouts - they protect your eyes from UV rays and glare, as well as from grit, flies and overhanging foliage. But of course the real reason anyone wears them is because we think they look good. Take these new Pro Nordic from Adidas Eyewear: light in weight but heavy on tech-nical features, they come with two one-piece interchangeable lenses (orange for glare, silver for contrast and definition), which you can 'snap' into three different positions to suit your face shape. They have moisture-wicking Climacool ventilation to prevent fogging or condensation, and come with a head strap you can use instead of arms for a more secure fit. You can even have prescription inserts, so no more 'I can't see without my glasses' excuses for poor sporting performance. The Gazelle ClimaCool Pro Nordic, £152, from Silhouette, 020-8889 9997 (or go to adidas.com/eyewear).

Slim pickings

Hear this, all you skinny minnies, in your size 8 jeans - a new study in the International Journal Of Obesity reveals that just because you're thin, it doesn't mean you don't have to exercise. Researchers at Brunel University compared the levels of 'bad' (LDL) cholesterol in 37 lean exercisers with that in 46 lean and 28 obese non-exercisers. The lean exercisers had low LDL levels, but slim and overweight couch potatoes had equally high ones. 'Many people think weight loss is the only benefit of exercising,' says Dr Gary O'Donovan, author of the study. 'This is not the case. Our study suggests that slim people need to exercise as much as others to stay healthy and keep LDL cholesterol in check.' There is a God after all.