HEALTH & WELLBEING

31/7/2018

It may seem that our entire website is devoted to Health and Wellbeing and in fact, it is. However, there is more …

Here on our new Health and Wellbeing page our writers unravel more of what true health and wellbeing can be.

Despite all the latest medical and technological advancements, statistics show that many people are being diagnosed with more illness and disease than ever before. Doctors are now finding that it is common for a person to be multi-symptomatic, meaning they have many health problems, which may require a range of specialists or treatments.

We invite you to join us as we take a look at the current concepts of health, and redefine what true health and wellbeing can look and feel like.

Medical research is now proving that our physicality is affected by our emotions, by our psychological state, by stress, anxiety and depression. Our writers offer examples of how our energetic state affects our health and wellbeing, to inspire us to look deeper into our own responsibility for our health.

What does wellbeing mean to you? Is it simply a lack of illness and disease or does it mean that you are filled with joy, vitality and a purpose to life? Welcome to our articles on Health and Wellbeing, no matter your age.

APPRECIATION - MY DAILY RELATIONSHIP WITH LIFE

30/7/2018

As a small child, I appreciated each day as it came. What wonders would this day unfold for me? I was definitely egocentric as a child – perhaps all children are to a certain extent. I remember on my fifth birthday walking up the driveway from the house we lived in – it seemed so very long that drive. I was going to visit the woman who helped my mother in the house.

WHY DO DOCTORS KNOW SO LITTLE ABOUT FOOD?

29/6/2018

I am a doctor and everything I know about food that is worth knowing, I learnt somewhere other than medical school. We learn so much in medical school, much of it bizarre and obscure and rarely used in real life; but when it comes to food, which we ingest every day, which serves as the building blocks of our body, and is often the cause of our illness and disease, we seem happy to skip over that.

MAKING SPACE FOR PROSTATE CANCER

4/4/2018

Prostate cancer is a killer. One in three men will get it. A high percentage will die because of it and many, even most, older men will die with it. And yet my very experienced surgeon who was spending most of his time operating on prostate cancer cases told me that he / they did not really, honestly know why some men developed the disease and some didn’t.
I know the why!

ORAL HEALTH ... WHAT YOUR ORAL HEALTH TELLS YOU

30/3/2018

In this article leading holistic dentists Rachel Hall and Alannah Freer explore how the state of our oral health reflects the state of our overall health and provides many early warning signs that our body is being subjected to unhealthy behaviours. They share their wisdom and a wealth of knowledge from years of experience about the link that teeth, gums and tongues have with patterns of behaviour, emotions and past lives.

SMILE

27/2/2018

Smile! There’s good news from the world of dentistry: Older Australians are keeping their teeth longer than ever before and the average number of teeth people retain into old age is increasing. But it is not all smiles. As people keep their teeth longer, there are more problems that are likely to arise which is why keeping up with regular dental visits is so important.

SELF-APPRECIATION

26/2/2018

Once upon a time, before I was introduced to the term self-appreciation, I was full of stress, reactivity and self-loathing. I knew that something in my life had to change and I had heard that self-appreciation might be a very useful place to start. For me, the term self-appreciation was a foreign concept, a complete mystery. Appreciate?? What? How? Why?

OSTEOPOROSIS AND BONE CARE

30/1/2018

This article centers on the very core of our bodies – our bones. We have language that describes how profoundly we can feel things to the deepest part of us such as ‘it cut me deep to my core’, ‘frozen to the bone’ and ‘I can feel it in my bones’. And so when our very core physical foundations, our bones, break down – medically known as osteopenia and osteoporosis – it most certainly is worthy of pondering on ‘Why?’

WHAT IS TRUE HEALTH & WELLBEING?

29/1/2018

I used to think that being healthy meant absence of illness or disease. I was always conscious of foods that were ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for you and prided myself on the fact that at seventy-three, I had never had any major illness and did not require any of the normal medications people my age usually have prescribed for them.

SINCERI-TEA

28/1/2018

Did you have a mother or grandmother who always offered everyone a cup of tea in times of trouble? “Here dear, sit down and have a cup of tea, it will make things better.”
I often accepted the cup of tea, not thinking for a minute that it would make any difference to how I felt, but doing it instead because it was going to make my grandmother feel better, not me!

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