Mindfulness in medicine: Is there a place for meditation? Mindfulness and meditation are powerful practices that impact mental and physical wellbeing. But how can it impact the patients and clients we care for? Where is its place in our professional lives and practice? Fortunately, there is a wealth of research that shows the vast benefits […]
Exercise and mental health: How Accredited Exercise Physiologists interact in the mental health field This webinar forms part of a live webinar series whereby recordings are made available online exclusively to ASLM Members. To gain access, please log in to your account or if you are not yet a member, please join here.
Home cooking helps our health and our wallet – so what stops us and our patients? As Lifestyle Medicine professionals we know eating whole, mostly plant-based foods is associated with numerous health benefits. Research also shows that people who cook at home generally eat higher quality food, consume less kilojoules, spend less money on food, and experience […]
The evidence for change Be a leader of change Become a member Lifestyle Medicine is a rapidly growing field that brings together people from every discipline in health to provide evidence-based tools and strategies needed to address the growing challenge of chronic mental and physical illness. The very serious challenges we are all facing, often alone, indicate a great need to bring together and support health care practitioners from diverse backgrounds to […]
Taking Lifestyle Medicine to work What do we spend about 90, 000 hours doing on average during our lifetime? More than 13 years consecutively or about 15% of our total lifetime? And for many of us, it currently occupies more than half of our waking hours? The answer is work. Since work comprises an essential component […]
What people like: Communicating health in the online era This webinar forms part of a live webinar series whereby recordings are made available online exclusively to ASLM Members. To gain access, please log in to your account or if you are not yet a member, please join here.
Introducing Malpa’s Young Doctors for Life Program: A community-centred approach to achieving strong health and wellbeing outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples ASLM is excited to announce our collaboration with Malpa and their Young Doctors for Life Program! Malpa was founded to address the vast inequality in health between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. They […]
Mindfulness in children Meet Jaxon, a healthy 12 year old boy with longstanding concentration difficulties. He is disorganized, often submits assessments and homework late or incomplete. He gets in trouble frequently at school for calling out and losing his temper with peers. He is achieving at grade level for most subjects though his teacher feels […]
Webinars Taking Lifestyle Medicine from theory to practice Delivered in partnership with Southern Cross University, this live webinar will bring together a diverse range of experts to discuss how practitioners, policy makers and experts explore the challenges and opportunities to realise the full potential of Lifestyle Medicine in practice, beyond theory and education. Specifically, discussion […]
Prevent or delay 40% of dementia cases by addressing lifestyle factors: Here is what you need to know According to a recent report by the Lancet commission of dementia prevention, intervention and care, up to 40% of an individual’s risk of dementia is potentially modifiable1. But which are the factors that need to be addressed? […]
