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Coming into 2024 this year, I found myself considering what really matters. The usual things came up … staying healthy and well, keeping in regular touch with friends, family and community, developing new relationships, exploring new business opportunities, and of course money, because we can't do anything unless we have money can we? Even though .. I love exploring ways to live with little money, because most of us are living the same paradigm … grow up (well I'd question that as some never do), get with a long term partner, buy a house, have children, work hard, then retire and travel round Australia. But we don't have to live this way. What is wonderful about the mixed up, shook up, world we are living in today, is we are…
A new study that looked at the motivations of 2,600 retreat-goers from more than 60 countries has found that the main reason for going to a retreat/spa is still to relax and have a holiday. However, more people went to manage a disease, with forty-one percent of respondents having one or more medical conditions and of those, forty-five per cent experiencing considerable relief from symptoms during their stay, including those suffering from stress, fatigue, back pain and arthritis.…
The origin of the ‘10,000-steps-a-day’ standard is a little murky, but researchers believe the number can be traced back to 1965, when a Japanese company made a pedometer named Manpo-kei, or the “10,000 steps metre” in English. However, as Shawn Arent, PhD, CSCS, Professor and Chair of the Department of Exercise Science and Director of the Sport and Science Lab at the University of South Carolina in Columbia believes, the rationale behind 10,000 steps has always been more about marketing than science. Clearly that marketing has been wildly successful, as the recommendation to take 10,000 steps a day has become ingrained in many users of wearable fitness technology. It has also inspired researchers to check if reaching this number actually offers any real health benefits. The Scientific Research on the…
Liver disease doesn't usually cause any symptoms until the damage to the liver is fairly advanced. Some signs your liver may be struggling include: Fatigue and Tiredness Doctors are not sure exactly how liver damage causes tiredness, but it's a common symptom. Nausea Nausea occurs because toxins build up in the bloodstream due to the liver's decreased ability to do its job of filtering out toxins. Pale Stools Stools are given their dark colour by the bile salts that the liver normally releases. If the stools are pale, it may indicate a problem with the liver or other part of the biliary drainage system. Black tarry stools can happen in advanced liver disease and are caused by blood passing through the gastrointestinal tract which needs urgent medical attention. Jaundice Jaundice…
Intermittent fasting (IF) or restricting your food consumption to a set window is a popular weight loss regime. A ten-hour window means limiting your daily eating schedule to ten hours and fasting for the remaining 14 hours. For example, if you start eating at 9am, you would finish eating by 7pm. Some IF advocates commonly promoting restrictive eating windows say that even eating within a less restrictive window of ten hours still has positive health benefits, such as changes in mood, energy and hunger. Further, those who were consistent with their eating window had greater benefits than those who varied their eating day-to-day. Dr Sarah Berry from King's College London said: “This is the largest study outside of a tightly controlled clinic to show that intermittent fasting can improve your…
The study, led by Associate Professor Matthew Pase, from the Monash School of Psychological Sciences and the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health in Melbourne, looked at 346 participants over 60 years of age enrolled in the Framingham Heart Study who completed two overnight sleep studies from 1995-1998, and 2001-2003. The participants were carefully followed for dementia from the time of the second sleep study through to 2018. The researchers found, on average, that the amount of deep sleep declined between the two studies, indicating slow wave sleep loss with ageing. Over the next 17 years of follow-up, there were 52 cases of dementia. Even adjusting for age, sex, cohort, genetic factors, smoking status, sleeping medication use, antidepressant use, and anxiolytic use, each percentage decrease in deep sleep each…
