Move the Blues Away

 Exercise for mental health. I think this is something we have touched on previously in the podcast, but it is an issue that's worth revisiting, and in particular, some interesting new data is out. Now, you probably won't have seen this in the mainstream media because...

Movement is medicine

Chores are good for us. I can hear you all screaming already. Household chores typically aren't the most popular activity that people do through the course of the week. And I get it. It's not what you do for fun, but it keeps your house in order. And that can include...

Outcomes Matter More Than Intentions

In sport, you can tell how you or in a team sport, your team is traveling by the scoreboard. It's not to say that winning is everything, and you can certainly enjoy playing sport for the enjoyment of playing sport. That's a good thing. But if you want to know whether...

How Diets Mess With Our Minds

You can’t half break a diet. You’re either on one or you’re not. Diets are the heart of restriction and deprivation. These aren’t happy places for our heads to be in.

Unfit Until Screening And Intervention Says Otherwise!

I received a letter from the Federal Government informing me of its new Healthy Start For School “ initiative”. The rationale for this as with most of these schemes is that it will “… help with the early identification of life risk factors and development delays and conditions”. Really? Even if you could understand this double speak it is meaningless.

Maximising Your Potential

It is urgent that professionals and the general population make lifestyle improvements a high priority in their daily agendas and long-term goal setting. As with any venture, there are effective and ineffective strategies

Meaningless Warnings

It is time to push back against meaningless warnings and regulations, which achieve nothing.

Be Healthy With iHealth Coach

Would you like to be healthier? The iHealth Coach app is there to help you. Click here http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ihealth-coach/id449572966

It’s All Done With Mirrors

With more sage skin advice, the world could have been spared the environmental impact of all those poisoned apples in Grimm Fairy Tales. Although nature will, it seems, win in the end. Here is a light hearted look at looking young.

Instead Of Taking Pills – Focus On Being Healthy

Medicines are trialed over relatively short periods of time but can then be taken for five, ten or even twenty years. Trials done over two years will of course not reveal problems that may only arise after five years of use.

Taking Pills Is Not A Free Lunch

Taking pills when lifestyle changes are what is needed may seem an easy option.There is no free lunch though and drugs can have unexpected side effects.

Wars Are Not The Answer – With Cancer Or Drugs

President, Jimmy Carter told congress in 1977 “Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself”.The current war on drugs causes more damage to (mainly young) people than the use of drugs.