Heart disease is a leading cause of mortality in men. According to the Heart Foundation, approximately 98 men in Australia have a heart attack every day and one in seven of those men die. One of the major risk factors is age so it is important that you get your heart health checked regularly and […]
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The trouble with discount strawberries… After walking past the strawberries at the supermarket all winter (I can’t justify paying $6 per punnet), I now can’t walk past without buying 3 punnets for $5. Even if I already have 3 punnets in the fridge at home! So I was confronted with the issue of how to
Our feet are amazing things. In fact not many people realise that they house a quarter of our bodies bones, contain over 100,000 receptors in each foot and have a very large role in movement. So why does such a small area of our body contain so many bones and receptors? It’s because our feet
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Most people have heard how vital exercise is in the management and prevention of Diabetes. But did you know that if you have the condition you need to take extra precautions when exercising in hot weather? One of the risks for diabetics is that they can experience hypoglycaemia, which occurs when glucose levels in the
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The squat is one of the most basic positions we as humans assume from a very young age. As we learn how to get up from the ground, we instinctively squat before we raise up. However at some point in most of our lives, this simple behaviour that we had so much flexibility for as
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in Australia, with over 20,000 new cases being diagnosed and approximately 3,300 deaths annually. This number of deaths is very similar to the number of women who die from breast cancer. It is most common in senior men with the risk increasing as you age. Exercise
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It is true that the greatest wealth is good health. Health is often viewed as purely a physical entity; the absence of disease, however health is more than just a physical state of being but is also influenced by our biochemical and emotional states. While there is no one secret to a healthy and happy
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Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic and often disabling neurologic disease of the central nervous system that affects 23,000 people in Australia. There is currently no known cure, however there are many treatment options that can make living with MS more manageable. Growing research suggests that exercise is an important part of managing the disease.
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People often think that being healthy means having good physical health, forgetting a large part of being healthy means having good mental health and wellbeing also. Although they can be related with therapies like exercise leading to both a better physical and mental health, they both are managed and treated in different ways. It is
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