One of the first steps to realizing if you are leading a healthy lifestyle or not is determining if you are overweight. Calculating your Body Mass Index or BMI is an excellent first step. Once you’ve determined what your BMI you can use a combination of exercise…
Small changes can make a big change to your life. Improve your health and wellness with these easy to implement tips. Challenge yourself to notice anything that surprises you, that you hadn’t noticed before. Allow yourself to be amazed by simple things…
You are not alone if you’re struggling with back pain. Lower back pain is common across both middle-aged men and women and can become more severe as we age. The causes of low back pain range from simple strains to spinal disc injuries and diseases that affect the joints…
“Stress” as a word is generally associated with negative connotations, but there is a type of stress which is actually beneficial to our health. The concept of hormesis was developed more than a hundred years ago, and research in this area has rapidly expanded over the last two decades…
“It’s the ordinary things we do on a daily basis that have an extraordinary effect,” says Dr Frank Lipman, renowned speaker and author of the new book “The New Rules of Ageing Well”. Aiming to change the face of ageing, Dr Lipman says that while it is common for women in their 40’s…
When your body cannot eliminate waste properly it becomes acidic and toxic. When it becomes acidic and toxic, your blood and your cells slow down. When this happens, your body starts to slow down and break down. Be sure the number of litres of water you drink…
It’s estimated that around 40 per cent of the population snores and regardless of the health issues (of which there are many), snoring can play havoc with your relationship. Snoring is caused by the rattling and vibration of tissues ear the airway in the back of the throat…
We are exposed to environmental toxins all the time. Even the simplest of daily routines can expose one to several common pollutants found in the water we drink, food we eat, and air we breathe. While our liver, kidneys and lymphatic system play a major role in...
We all know that sleep is vital to our heath and wellbeing, but 2 in 5 Australians aren’t getting enough. Not so long ago, most people believed sleep was a passive activity during which the body and brain were dormant. However, studies have proven that sleep…
As the statistics clearly show, most of us are walking around half awake every day, which means in all probability we are not living a higher quality of life we could be and other areas of our lives can suffer. Both psychical and psychological problems can arise by not achieving enough quality sleep.