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Health and Fitness Travel pick the top nutrition retreats for healthy ageing What is your face telling you? Affecting much more than your weight and health, a growing understanding of how what you put into your body shows on your face is expanding the importance of digestive health. In the battle against bags, wrinkles and adult […]
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You don’t have to skydive naked or ski Everest to get a thrill from adventure. It turns out that just climbing trees, jumping over bushes and leaping logs can make you mentally heathier, happier and more resilient. A Swiss meta-study just published in the Sports Medicine Journal shows that adventurous physical activity is not only good for
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Get into the new spring issue of the What’s New in Fitness (WNiF) Magazine! Spring is a great time to be in the fitness industry. People are emerging from winter and they’re gaining more motivation to get ready for summer. For these reasons alone, spring is an optimum time to cast your net far and wide, to attract
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The annual race up the 16,242 stairs at Melbourne’s tallest building, the Eureka Climb, presented by OsteoEze, rewards participants with a fantastic view of the city from the finish line at Skydeck88 – the highest viewing platform in the Southern Hemisphere. With two stairwells, one for those racing the clock and one for walkers, Eureka Climb
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The Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) is urging Australians to keep their pantry stocked with healthy staples to help minimise food waste, starting with a pantry clean-out to extend their food budget this spring. On average, Australian households throw out the equivalent of one in every five grocery bags purchased, costing the average household more
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Feelings of pain can affect all of us from acute, short sharp episodes to chronic daily pain it rarely discriminates. In fact, pain is highly subjective and has both sensory and emotional aspects. To experience relief, we need to assist the body to feel at ease both physically and emotionally. Whether pain is triggered by
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An Australian rugby code ‘Oztag’ branded as a safe alternative to higher-contact sports has been deemed a high-risk for hand injuries by Sydney hospital specialists. An audit into the prevalence of Oztag-related hand injuries presenting at Concord Repatriation General Hospital (CRGH) found that the ‘tag’ tackle, which involves players running at speed with outstretched handsmeant
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By Eryn Ford, founder and trainer at Mummy Physiques Kegel exercises are simple clench-and-release exercises that you can do to make the muscles of your pelvic floor stronger. Your pelvis is the area between your hips that holds your reproductive organs. The pelvic floor is really a series of muscles and tissues that forms a sling,
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Miranda Kerr’s using it, Jessica Simpson’s using it and your next door neighbour is probably using it; it’s the latest pain relief trend to take the world by storm. It looks like a modern take on a medieval ‘bed of nails’, but acupressure mats can help reduce chronic pain, increase endorphins and even assist with
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Existing models for measuring health impacts of the human diet are limiting our capacity to solve obesity and its related health problems, claim two of the world’s leading nutritional scientists in their newest research. In the latest edition of Annual Review of Nutrition, Professor David Raubenheimer and Professor Stephen Simpson from the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins
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New research: Natural chemicals in vegetables cut risk of insulin resistance In the first study of its kind, research has uncovered another string to the ‘health bow’ of vegetables, showing carotenoids, the natural plant chemicals in vegies, may halve the risk of insulin resistance in adults, a major risk factor for some of the country’s
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For those ready to make the stretch beyond their local yoga studio, Health and Fitness Travel, the leading experts in tailor-made wellness holidays worldwide, invite wanderlusting yogis to reconnect with both themselves and the world with 14 of the best yoga retreats for discovery and adventure. With hand-selected retreats from the serene mountaintops of the Himalayas
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