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Total Articles: 32Exercise and Fitness
A Case For Getting Of Your Arse By: Craig Harper, Exercise Scientist & Motivational Speaker Take a Seat. Or Maybe Not. It may or may not surprise you to learn that many Australians (and many people from most first-world countries for that matter) spend somewhere in the vicinity of twenty-two to twenty-three hours per day either sitting ... Read more... |
A vegetarian diet can make you healthy wealthy and wise By: The Food Coach Comparing three diets, a traditional meat diet, a meat reducer diet and a vegetarian diet, Sanitarium’s team of accredited practising dieticians compiled healthy and nutritious menus including snacks and drinks then analysed the nutritional program of each one. An environmental expert ... Read more... |
Acid Wear: A 21st Century threat to teeth By: Amy Pongrass New research conducted nationally has revealed that Australians are unintentionally placing themselves at risk of an oral care issue known as Acid Wear. This condition can prematurely age the appearance of teeth and dentists are blaming the modern diet. One third of ... Read more... |
Acne and Diet - Part One By: Amy Pongrass It’s a genuine myth that chocolate causes pimples, but eating too much of the wrong foods over an extended period of time will certainly play a role in skin breakouts. Excess sugar, trans fats, salty, fried and processed foods cause a ... Read more... |
Choosing the Right Exercise for You By: Kimberley Norton, Oriental Health Practitioner Is there any such thing as the ‘right’ exercise? When you break down all the benefits and motivations for exercise, it comes back to creating balance to an otherwise one-sided lifestyle. For some, exercise is an obsession, for others, ... Read more... |
Does the type of exercise you do, influence what you eat? By: Judy Davie, Founder of The Food Coach We all know that it is important to eat healthily and exercise, however have you ever considered whether the type of exercise you do might influence not only how much you eat, but also the quality of food you eat? This ... Read more... |
Eating Disorders: Could you have one? By: Meaghan Katrak, Mental Health Social Worker We are a nation on a diet. We are collectively watching our weight, intake of fat, salt or carbohydrates, counting kilojoules, weighing our food or following a commercial diet or eating plan. With what has become such an obsession with monitoring and ... Read more... |
Exercise and Osteoporosis By: Extract from 'Get in Shape' by Ita Buttrose & Lee Campbell, Penguin Books, 2007 Osteoporosis is a condition in which the bones become fragile and brittle, leading to a higher risk of fractures (breaks or cracks) than in normal bones. It occurs when bones lose minerals such as calcium and the body cannot replace these ... Read more... |
Exercise the match for the fire By: Judy Davie In our body and weight obsessed world, many of us fling themselves around the park to burn off extra calories consumed the night before or work out obsessively in the gym. Those same people may have perfectly slim and lovely bodies ... Read more... |
Explaining the Glycaemic Index - Part One By: Joanna McMillan-Price Carbohydrates make us fat right? Those espousing high protein/low carbohydrate diets certainly think so. Diets such as Atkins have risen to the fore and many of us have been trying to cut out foods such as bread, rice, potatoes and pasta ... Read more... |
Emma you are right, sugar should be removed as most of ... »