Focus on fitness
Focus on fitness 67% of the Australian adult population is overweight or obese1. Most of our adult patients (and ourselves!) are aiming to lose weight.…
Tag: Lifestyle Medicine
Harnessing the potential of neuroplasticity
Harnessing the potential of neuroplasticity Wellness is as much in our minds as in our bodies. In fact, it is through our brains that we…
On the path to a better world – Lifestyle Medicine in 2021
Dear colleagues and friends, The Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky said once, “There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings”.…
The inaugural Lifestyle Medicine Awards
Lifestyle Medicine spans clinical practice, community and state level initiatives, through to public health policy and ultimately, prevention. It is fully interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary; involving clinicians,…
Future forward
Future forward As we adapt to how the world around us has changed, many Queenslanders have taken stock, and living a healthier life is now…
Children: All of our future
“Children are one third of our population and all of our future.” Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981 Lifestyle Medicine addresses the causative…
Health groups call on government to address climate health impacts in National Preventive Health Strategy
On 28 September 2020, over 30 health groups issued a Joint Statement calling on the Federal Health Minister to recognise climate change in the National Preventive…
Health equity of indigenous peoples: A Lifestyle Medicine perspective
Nearly 12 years ago the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, itself a product of some 25 years of effort, was adopted by…
The “un”ergonomics of working from home
The “un”ergonomics of working from home With most of us now working from home, the issue of how to set up your “home office” is…
