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Our purpose is to help members (and our community) live healthier lives - by staying physically active, eating healthy and having a deeper knowledge of their physical wellness through every stage of life. Our healthy lifestyle experts provide exercise tips, recipe inspiration ideas and wellbeing advice to help you move, eat, and feel better.

Nutrition and Osteoporosis

Nutrition and Osteoporosis

Jaime Rose Chambers
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Our bones form our physical structure, they hold us upright and keep us moving. When our body takes calcium from our bones to use in the body and doesn’t have the nutrients available from our diet to replace them, over time bone becomes brittle. This leads to osteopenia, and the more serious, osteoporosis and increases the risk of bone fractures. It’s estimated 1 million Australians have osteoporosis. We can’t reverse it but we can make some diet and lifestyle changes to stop further bone loss and potentially build back some bone.  
Category:Nutrition, Healthy Lifestyle, Healthy Living
Five top tips to recover from a fitness event

Five top tips to recover from a fitness event

Em Batger
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That moment when you cross the finish line of a challenge you have been training towards for a while can be one of mixed emotions. The huge surge of endorphins make you feel almost euphoric amongst the exhaustion, the elation and relief that it’s over. Even though it’s all done and dusted you owe it to your body to recover properly. How? Read on to find my top five tips to recovery after a big fitness event. 

Category:Fitness, Healthy Living, Injury and Rehabilitation
Alcohol and Our Health - Is there a safe drinking limit

Alcohol and Our Health - Is there a safe drinking limit

Jaime Rose Chambers
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Alcohol has long been part of many cultures and is still an integral part of many celebrations and events. It’s often also abused and used in excess, at the least making you feel pretty awful, and at its worst, can be fatal to you and to others, such as from road accidents and domestic violence. After decades of research and data collection, The World Health Organisation has recently released a statement on the safest level of drinking and guidelines to keep you and others around you safe from alcohol harm. 
Category:Nutrition, Healthy Lifestyle, Healthy Living
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Hospital Cover

No one wants to go to hospital, but if the worst happens, having Hospital cover can make a stressful experience easier and more comfortable. You may be thinking, “But why do I need private health insurance when we can have the public health system, Medicare?” Well, there’s a number of reasons why private hospital insurance is a better option than relying solely on the public system – one of the most important one being that your policy allows you to choose your own hospital and treating doctor. Plus, you’ll typically have a much shorter wait time for any elective surgeries that you may need in the future.

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Nutrition at Every Age and Stage

Nutrition at Every Age and Stage

Jaime Rose Chambers
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At certain stages in our lives, our body goes through growth, development and changes that alter the requirements we have for specific nutrients. We all need to eat a variety of foods from the five food groups, but when a baby starts solids, or a teenager goes through a growth spurt, when a women becomes pregnant, hits menopause or when we become elderly, our energy needs and the needs we have for nutrients like iron, calcium, folate and protein can change.  
Category:Nutrition
Food and Mood - The Role of Diet in Depression and Low Mood

Food and Mood - The Role of Diet in Depression and Low Mood

Jaime Rose Chambers
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Many factors are involved and can contribute to depression or low mood, some out of our control. Research has confirmed there is a strong link between what we eat and our risk of depression. There isn’t necessarily a ‘diet’ for mental health, rather a dietary pattern that involves eating more foods associated with a decreased risk of depression and eating less foods associated with an increased risk of depression. The dietary pattern most commonly associated with reducing the risk of depression is the Mediterranean Diet. 
Category:Nutrition, Mental Health
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