Six Tips To Living Longer
OK it is now “official” - being sedentary does actually kill you. The negative impact of a sedentary lifestyle on our health has been observed for many years but it has now been clearly shown and quantified. An Australian study of 8800 people over six years found...
Four Tips to Help You Stay Hydrated
Last year an Australian town made headlines by being the first to ban the sale of bottled water. This was done on the basis that water comes in plastic containers that “pollute” the environment. Now the health of the planet is important. So is the health of the people...
Dr Joes DIY Health Guide To Christmas
At live presentations this month I have been asking the audience “Who is looking forward to Christmas”? A number of hands go up. The next question is Who is looking forward to Christmas being…over? A second set of hands goes up. If I asked a group of year one school...
Cholesterol – A Different View
Here is something that you may not know. Cholesterol is found in every cell in the human body, all 60 trillion of them, as it is part of the cell membrane. It is also the base component for a number of hormones. Some of these hormones are involved in regulation of...
A Weight Issue – Time To Think Differently
Here we go, another piece on weight-hasn’t it all been done to death? Well maybe its time to look at it a different way. I have written previously about the importance of putting the right fuels into your body and how this means you will feel better and probably eat...
Medical Screening – More Not Always Better
There is a great line in the movie Men in Black when Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) is telling soon to be agent J (Will Smith) about aliens on the planet which until then J had no knowledge of. It goes like this - “ 1500 year ago people knew that the earth was the...
Chicken Little Rides Again
In the story of Chicken Little, it was Chicken Little’s view that the sky was falling. She, of course became very fearful of this and was able to convince others that this was the case. All those who believed it became fearful too. There are two endings to this story,...
Live Better For Longer
Two interesting pieces recently on longevity caught my eye. It was reported in The Lancet that life expectancy is continuing to increase and that a large number of babies born this century will live to be a century. I was first shown statistics like this in 2003 at an...
Let The Sun Shine
Without the sun there would be no life on earth. Yet somehow over the last 30 year the sun has become something evil to be feared and avoided at almost all costs. Lets be very clear up front -getting sunburnt is not a good idea and if you do it often enough there is...
H1N1 Vaccination – Why the Rush?
It is never a good idea to cut corners in life. Whilst it is often easy to justify in the heat of the moment, down the track, the consequences, some predictable, others not will come back to haunt. It is with this in mind that I am increasingly uneasy about the rush...
Stopping To Smoke – Made Easy
Smoking rates have declined over the last 30 years in many countries particularly the USA and Australia. Most of this has been from people just quitting or going “cold turkey” as it is called. Cigarette consumption does vary considerably around the world . More...
Heart Fitness
Looking after your heart may be easier than you think. And it does not require tablets.