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Written by garywebb Webb
How interrupted sleep affects our mood and overall health “Sometimes I wake up Grumpy. Other times I let them sleep in.” Nocturnal awakenings are very common. But how much do they interfere with our mood and health? Whether it’s the neighbour’s dog barking at shadows, your youngest crying with earache, you worrying about tomorrow’s presentation, […]
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Roni Beauchamp appointed as ASLM’s new CEO It is with great excitement and anticipation that the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine (ASLM) announces the appointment of Roni (Veronica) Beauchamp as our new Chief Executive Officer. We feel so fortunate to have Roni step into this role and look forward to seeing the Lifestyle Medicine movement […]
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Low back pain: pause and consider to enact change Back pain is, quite frankly, a pain in the back…both for the people who have it and the community at large1. Despite its pervasive nature, care for those with back pain continues to diverge from best practice1,2. The fact that back pain care often diverges from […]
Written by Cheryl Wilson
How accurate are Australia’s Health Star Ratings? Health Star Ratings I remember when I first moved to Australia, someone offered me a ‘nutritional’ drink. After my first sip of Milo (the nutritional drink), I reached across the table and looked at the packaging with the healthy, happy child playing soccer on the green package and […]
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Smartwatch technology: Is it benefiting our health or doing more harm than good? The watch has been propelled into a new era by ‘smart’ technology. In the age of the omnipresent cellphone, the humble portable timepiece rapidly became more a fashion statement than a practicality. Now, smartwatches are sold as both an extension of the […]
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The plastic brain: the potential neurotoxicity of microplastics It seems impossible to imagine a world without plastic. Plastic is one of the materials most used by us in our everyday lives. In fact, it’s so prevalent in everyday life today it’s considered one of the defining features of the Anthropocene. That’s why the current era […]
Written by Catherine Gray
Ready for retirement? A Lifestyle Medicine approach to optimising this time of life Introduction Many people have romantic notions about retirement. They may have the perception they’ll be embarking on a permanent weekend or suddenly have time to do the things they’ve always wanted to and ‘saved up’ for. Yet many people have immense difficulty […]
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Challenge and learning as vital signs in health care The importance of vital signs for measuring health The first device invented to measure a vital sign was one designed in 1602 by physician Santorio Santori, who was born in modern day Slovenia. With some likely assistance from his colleague Galileo Galilei, among others, Santori introduced the […]
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The Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine is pleased to have published today the following 2022 Federal Election Priorities statement. The statement outlines solutions to three current challenges in primary care in Australia. These solutions take into consideration preventing and better managing chronic disease, adopting innovation in the primary care model, and supporting the health workforce to […]
Written by Hannah Phillips
How can we teach the next generation about planetary health, and why does it matter? A summary of planetary health and why it’s so important Planetary health describes the relationship between the health of the earth and its population. This relationship is co-dependent, and involves a sustainable ecosystem maintained by humans acting as the stewards […]
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