By Cassie White, 13 July 2018. As a trainer, I consider it a personal failure if I’m unable to motivate a client to make important health and lifestyle changes. Sure, there are people who just don’t care, but I can spot them from 100 metres away. I’m not talking about them. I’m referring to the
Read moreBy Cathy Johnson, 13 October 2016 Being awake at an ungodly hour, your mind a tangle of anxious thoughts, is a wretched experience. Whether you’re thinking about work or family worries, the events of the day, or tasks you face tomorrow, it tends to kill off the chance of sleep. It’s a common problem, with
Read moreABC Health & Wellbeing By Dr Jocelyn Lowinger, 29 Jul 2016. Meal times can be a source of frustration and conflict in many families. In a scenario that is familiar to many parents, you go out of your way to provide healthy meals and encourage your kids to eat their leafy greens. But all they
Read moreABC News Breakfast, updated 17 May 2018 So you’ve decided to lose some weight. Or maybe you want to get your mental health in check. There’s an app for that, right? You bet there is. In fact, there’s now more than 250,000 fitness and health apps — dubbed “mHealth apps” — available for download. But
Read moreThe Conversation, by Philip Lovell Pearce and Li Jing, 12 Jul 2018. John Briggs, a 40-year-old on holiday, texted his wife Shirley: “Look at the glacier out there.” He waited for the reply, which came through on his mobile. At the time they were sitting next to one another on board the deck of their
Read moreDr. Jason FungApr 10 The idea of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is great. The reality, though, not so much. Human perception is often flawed, so the premise of EBM is to formally study medical treatments and there have certainly been some successes. Consider the procedure of angioplasty. Doctors insert a catheter into the blood vessels
Read moreBy the ABC National Reporting Team’s Alison Branley and medical reporter Sophie Scott. 16 Jul 2016. Australian researchers have uncovered new evidence explaining why using artificial sweeteners might lead people to put on weight. Research at the University of Sydney has examined how sweeteners impact the brain’s response to food intake. Previous studies have already
Read moreBy Masako Fukui for Earshot, 6 Dec 2016. When 88-year-old author Doreen Wendt-Weir began interviewing people for her book Sex in your Seventies, she changed her name to the more glamorous sounding Evangeline to help her overcome her “conservative, reserved, somewhat timid” nature. Perhaps more importantly, the less stodgy persona also helped loosen the tongues
Read moreUniversal Practice’s Sammy Wilson shares three simple ways to meditate for those who think it’s all too difficult. Just because your mind’s too focused on work matters and other things, doesn’t mean you can’t utilise one of the best relaxation technique available. Meditation can be practiced by anyone. If you were keen to take up
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