What is the NDIS?
National disability insurance scheme or NDIS is run by the national disability insurance agency or NDIA.
What is the NDIS?
Health issues with cockroaches
Cockroaches are believed to be the only creatures that would survive a nuclear explosion. The health aspects of cockroaches.
Health issues with cockroaches
Is Chocolate good for you?
ABC Health Journalist Claudine Ryan recently on ABC Life Matters explored the myths of chocolate.
Is Chocolate good for you?
Are you sitting at your desk properly?
Correct sitting posture in front of a computer. Also some correct standing position for those with a stand-up desk.
Are you sitting at your desk properly?
Learned Helplessness
Learned helplessness is behaviour exhibited by a subject after enduring repeated aversive stimuli beyond their control. They come to believe that they are unable to control or change the situation, so they do not try even when opportunities for change become available.
Learned Helplessness
Appointment Booking System
Public Interactive Calendars from Your Website. Expand your business by instantly being able to book appointments across employees or contractors.
Appointment Booking System
The relationship between Yoga and Meditation
Yoga postures are a very useful for preparing the body for meditation.
The relationship between Yoga and Meditation
Why join Gold Coast Health?
We are creating an online system that will allow you to manage your business and allow customer bookings online.
Why join Gold Coast Health?Yoga and Karate
Yoga and Karate Soul-Mates on the Journey to Good Health - improving cognitive and artistic functions in individuals with left brain right brain connections.
Yoga and Karate
Fresh Breath
The majority of bad breath cases are caused by gum disease or periodontal disease. Build up of bacteria under the gum line along the gum tissue cause Gum disease; this build up bacteria emit the gases that are most often the cause of bad breath.
Fresh Breath
Is Food to Blame?
Do you accept an up-size without giving it so much as a second thought? Are seconds a common theme at your mealtimes?
Is Food to Blame?
Mindfulness in the workplace and home
The ABC program raises some interesting issues with mindfulness - the closer you get to true practitioners the clearer the teaching - mindfulness is its own advocate.
Mindfulness in the workplace and home
Yoga vs Pilates
Yoga vs Pilates you may find you are doing some Pilates moves in a Yoga class. They have similarities. Machine Pilates is quite different.
Yoga vs Pilates
How much excercise for this much food
An interesting article in Womens Health magazine showed the following amounts of exercise required to burn up an amount of food. You may want to develop a taste for organic carrots.
How much excercise for this much food
The benefits of Barley Grass powder
Barley grass powder is made from the dried young leaves of the barley plant.
The benefits of Barley Grass powder
How healthy are your business practices?
You may have a great health formula - but what about your business habits?
How healthy are your business practices?
Separation of Church and State Australia
Unlike the United States, technically Australia does not have a separation of church and state. Separation of Church and State Australia Part 1
Separation of Church and State Australia
Prolonged Sitting Not Healthy
There are risks associated with sitting most pronounced in people who are not doing much physical activity.
Prolonged Sitting Not Healthy
Is Mould Harming Your Health?
Mould and spores are a common component of home and workplace dust. Excessive exposure to mold-contaminated materials can cause adverse health effects in susceptible persons regardless of the type of mould or the extent of contamination.
Is Mould Harming Your Health?
Kill the pests not your family
Pest control to kill the pests and not your family
Kill the pests not your family
Why we get Fat
The ABC Health Report had a very interesting segment on studies done on why we get fat.
Why we get Fat
Knowing your limitations - Facing Fears
What is unnecessarily limiting you for a happy healthy life. Psychology may be able to help you learn to heal yourself.
Knowing your limitations - Facing Fears
Learned Helplessness - Part Two
Learned helplessness is a state that occurs after a person has experienced a stressful situation repeatedly and they come to believe that they are unable to control or change the situation. Part 2 looks at how to overcome learned helplessness.
Learned Helplessness - Part Two
Benefits of an Alkaline Diet
An alkaline diet works on moving the balance toward fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, wholesome protein sources such as beans and legumes, and healthy oils such as olive and flax seed.
Benefits of an Alkaline Diet
Healthy Hair
How your hair skin and nails look are often a reflection of your lifestyle so do you head for the naturopath or the hairdresser to get the advice you need?
Healthy Hair
What happens to the brains of stressed people?
It turns out that the type of exercise generally recommended ie. 20-30 minutes of aerobic exercise (build up a sweat) 3 times a week is very good at regenerating neurons in the hippocampus.
What happens to the brains of stressed people?
Is Coffee ruining your Health
Your morning coffee may be placing you into a series of highs and lows. This roller coaster ride may be leaving you feeling tired and fatigued.
Is Coffee ruining your Health
Alfalfa the father of all foods
Alfalfa could just be the supplement your body needs. Its origins include Arab tribesmen noticing how well their horses performed after eating it.
Alfalfa the father of all foods
Getting un-stung by your credit card
Removing a bee or wasp sting with a credit card can be a safer way than with tweazers
Getting un-stung by your credit card
Neuroscience of Mindfulness
Bringing the brain back into alpha state, like before we go to sleep is very good for us. This is achieved in meditation as well as when we do everyday tasks and hobbies.
Neuroscience of Mindfulness
Recovering from a Motor Vehicle Accident
If you find yourself injured, you may need some professional follow-up. The drivers CTP insurer would normally be responsible for paying compensation to the injured person.
Recovering from a Motor Vehicle AccidentStiff upper lip
Swallowing down emotions and maintaining a stiff upper lip has resulted in extreme suicide rates with the highest being men over the age of 85.
Stiff upper lip
The perils of overeating
Issues with your pancreas and insulin production when you overeat. Overeating disrupts the migrating motor complex that helps to keep bacteria in the correct area of the digestive tract. Overeating also places extra burden on the pancreas by having to continuously produce insulin.
The perils of overeatingAnxiety - Resisting Growth
So perhaps finding an answer about an anxiety-related question from an anxious place, we only create more anxiety.
Anxiety - Resisting Growth
Is Marriage Equality a 50-50 Split?
Is Marriage Equality a 50-50 Split? Mutual respect is key.
Is Marriage Equality a 50-50 Split?
Making a common law claim against your employer
When you make a common law claim, you're saying your employer didn't provide a safe work environment and they breached their duty of care to you.
Making a common law claim against your employer
A Matter of Opinion
You can respect another opinion without accepting it or agreeing with it. In the era of social media, gaslighting, trolls and dog whistling, does the above adage still hold a general truth, does it stack up?
A Matter of Opinion
Reconnect with Nature Gold Coast
Correlative, longitudinal and experimental studies have proven that Reconnecting with Nature makes us feel better because it reduces stress and anxiety and acts as a buffer to negative emotions.
Reconnect with Nature Gold Coast
Car Crash Scamming Now a Crime
Unfortunately, scammers pretending to be lawyers or 'wanting to assist' you to gain compensation for injuries following a car crash, may phone you to obtain your personal details and then sell this information to 'injury lawyers' to make money out of your situation.
Car Crash Scamming Now a Crime
All Sorts of Liquorice
Liquorice is the sweet aromatic extraction from a root (Glycyrrhiza glabra).
All Sorts of Liquorice
COVID on the Gold Coast
COVID on the Gold Coast has bought out the very best and worst of Australian people and politicians. Will they apologise for letting it rip?
COVID on the Gold Coast
The Rising Christian Right
Separation of Church and State Australia Part 2
The Rising Christian Right
BUSH TUCKER The Kakadu Plum - case study
Since the 1970s, there has been recognition of the nutritional and gourmet value of native foods by non-Indigenous Australians, and the bush food industry has grown enormously.
BUSH TUCKER The Kakadu Plum - case studyGut Health - Our Second Brain
The gut is an enteric nervous system that relies on the same type of neurons and neurotransmitters found in the central nervous system, so some medical experts call the gut our second brain.
Gut Health - Our Second Brain
Managing Complexity takes more than Simple Steps
No proposals for managing workplace complexity can ignore two fundamentals. One arises from the nature of complexity, the other from the nature of humans.
Managing Complexity takes more than Simple Steps
Can music support our well being?
We can use music in positive ways to manage our moods and our mental health.
Can music support our well being?
Is paying health insurance worth it?
Private health insurance is Australia is some kind of top-up. We have health insurance in the Medicare system paid from the Medicare Levy Surcharge (MLS) in our tax system.
Is paying health insurance worth it?
The Difference between Psychology and Psychiatry
The expertise of mental health has come a long way from its roots, all the way back to 1879 when Wilhelm Wundt established the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig in Germany, to current practices of the study.
The Difference between Psychology and Psychiatry
Insights From The Longest Study On Human Happiness
Join us as we embark on a journey to explore the pursuit of happiness, diving deeper into the insights gleaned from the longest study on human happiness.
Insights From The Longest Study On Human HappinessShowing Initiative
The words of John Wooden resonate deeply: - The failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.
Showing Initiative
Stay Safe, Stay Smart: How To Deflect Stalkers
Ever experienced that unnerving sensation of being watched and followed or the persistent ping of unwanted texts and emails infiltrating your personal space?
Stay Safe, Stay Smart: How To Deflect Stalkers
Protein Decoys
Our normal food environments and our biology and our appetites are being right royally hacked by the processed food industry.
Protein Decoys
Sleep better
Sleep is just so fundamental to all elements of our health and well being. Sleep is also a risk factor for some forms of cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, but more importantly, the risk of later anxiety and depression.
Sleep betterThere are no Medications for Anorexia Nervosa
There are medications for other eating disorders like Bulimia. Ground breaking research into the genetics of Anorexia Nervosa is unraveling the 100s of genetic markers predisposing people to the condition.
There are no Medications for Anorexia Nervosa
7 Health Tips from Michael Mosely
One of those communicators who possessed the rare gift of translating complex medical concepts into everyday language.
7 Health Tips from Michael Mosely
A Support Guide for Anorexia Nervosa
Supporting someone with Anorexia Nervosa can be both challenging and rewarding. It requires a delicate balance of compassion, understanding, and awareness to avoid unintentionally causing harm while striving to help.
A Support Guide for Anorexia Nervosa
The role of the Amygdala
The amygdala, a pair of almond-shaped clusters deep within the temporal lobe of the brain, is a critical component of the limbic system - a network responsible for regulating emotions, memory, and survival instincts.
The role of the Amygdala
How to talk to someone you disagree with
We develop stringent ideas about right and wrong, and if someone did something wrong, something immoral, outrage would be one punishment.
How to talk to someone you disagree with
Alcohol Causes Cancer
Recently it has been discovered that alcohol has something to do with causing very common cancers like breast cancer and bowel cancer. It is a class 1 carcinogen in the same category as tobacco. It rates number 3 behind tobacco and obesity.
Alcohol Causes Cancer
The Gold Coast is one of the healthiest places on earth.
The climate, fresh air, access to beaches parks and abundance of qualified trainers and professional athletes make this a mecca for your health.
