Health

It’s early evening, you’re just home from work and out of habit you immediately pour yourself a drink, then another, and sometimes another … do you have a drinking problem? In a society that normalises heavy drinking and in particular binge drinking, it’s becoming increasingly hard to tell whether our own alcohol consumption is under control or if we’re moving into dangerous drinking territory.

Don’t you love a good acronym? My latest favourite I heard the other week was NETTEL.

What do you think is the biggest killer of Australian women today? It’s not breast cancer, suicide, lung cancer or even stroke.

Moving house? Going overseas for a year? Taking a new job interstate? It’s exciting to start afresh, begin again somewhere new, however… when it comes to your health you will be at a disadvantage if you don’t have some record of where you’ve been.

Our brains are fascinating to say the least.

Ok – so everybody knows you should keep your weight under control, maintain a healthy blood pressure and watch your cholesterol.

If you’re tossing and turning awake at night – possibly mentally planning the morning rush and worrying about everything that could go wrong in the future – you’re not alone.

You don’t often hear someone described as ‘a good listener’ these days do you? It doesn’t seem a terribly highly valued character trait.

We all know the feeling – we have been ploughing through work all day and we feel a yawn emerge.

I’ve been a bona fide pedal pusher for the better part of a decade now, across different cities and countries, and I now couldn’t imagine ever being a public transport commuter again.

Living in our sunburnt country offers only minimal protection from vitamin D deficiency with 35% of males and 58% of females in Australia at least mildly deficient in vitamin D, according to a new Australian study.

In health, as in many areas of life recognising a problem early and being able to start the appropriate treatment straight away can make an enormous difference.