Health and Wellbeing

FoodSwitch: Make Smart Food Choices With Your iPhone

If you are looking for help in making healthier food choices when shopping, then you might find this newly released iPhone app will be extremely useful. Developed in Australia by The George Institute for Global

What Single Intervention Has The Biggest Impact On Your Health?

Can you limit your sitting to just 23 ½ hours a day? As a personal trainer and corrective exercise practitioner, I occasionally come across material that truly excites me and reinforces why I am passionate

Sleep Affects Weight Loss

The Inspire Fitness training philosophy is focused on personally-tailored, expertly-prescribed exercise coupled with healthy lifestyle habits, to ensure that our clients receive complete health and wellbeing

The Secret To Better Sleep: An Infographic

Following on from our recent post about how sleep affects the body, here’s a fun and educational infographic with tips for how to get better sleep.  Thanks to the team at Greatist for putting this infographic

How Does Sleep Affect Your Health And Fitness?

We all know that regular exercise is good for you, but did you know that your body makes its healthy adaptations while you are recovering from physical activity?  After conquering a challenging training session

Change Your Life, Change Your Diabetes Risk: The Case For Lifestyle Modifications And Better Health Outcomes

Recent statistics have been released detailing the extent of the current diabetes epidemic in Victoria and have highlighted the need for prevention to limit the burden of the disease for individuals.  With

Back Pain And Prolonged Sitting: Resources From Around The Web

We have had a lot of interest from readers wanting to learn more about low back pain and prolonged sitting, following on from Rory Scott’s timely post in September.  With more occupations becoming office-based

Motivation And Exercise (Part 1): It’s Not All That It’s Cracked Up To Be

Happy New Year and welcome to 2012!  With the holiday season quickly slipping from our grasp, it’s time to look towards our plans for ourselves and our quality of life.  Maybe you’ve made a New