Have you noticed that every other week a new diet seems to materialize, seemingly out of nowhere, in the health
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The new Closing the Gap agreement between Australian governments and the Coalition of Peaks identifies the need to address institutional racism, discrimination and unconscious bias and to embed cultural safety within government mainstream institutions and agencies. In the article below, Professor Juanita Sherwood, Pro Vice-Chancellor of Indigenous Engagement at Charles […]
(Introduction by Croakey) Earlier this week the Federal Government announced it is providing 10 additional Medicare-subsidised psychological therapy sessions for Australians affected by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The additional sessions are for people who have already used their initial 10 sessions through a Mental Health Treatment Plan, […]
Five priority areas to improve the treatment and lives of people with head and neck cancers are highlighted in a unique new video series, reports journalist and cancer survivor Julie McCrossin. The videos also share the stories and questions of survivors, and “tell the blunt truth about how the Australian […]The first time I heard of CBD oil was way back when I was a teenager. Growing up in the … Read More
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A little over a month ago, I agreed to start run training with Nike's Head Run Coach, Lydia O'Donnell, in the hopes of improving my 5km run speed and putting Nike's new Air Zoom Pegasus 37s sneakers to the test.
Before I started, Lydia explained that when you're looking to improve your speed, you need to train and treat your body differently. It's important to create a sustainable running program to help create healthy running habits that gradually increase your speed over time. If you start banging out 5kms every day at top speed you're only going to wear out your body and risk injury, especially if your sneakers aren't up to the task.
Along with the right kind of training, you need the right kind of support. Running sneakers must have a certain degree of cushioning, this way it takes some of the pounding impacts off the body. According to experts, we experience a vertical force of 3-4 times our body weight during a run, meaning the more cushioning that's there, the less chance there is of sustaining an injury. The Pegasus 37s feature new forefoot Zoom Air bag technology meaning that they offer more rebound and energy when your foot connects with the ground during a run.
I first noticed the difference airbag tech makes when I was doing a hill sprint session from my program. The Air Zoom Pegasus 37 was super responsive even though it felt lightweight. The Nike React foam around the midsole makes the shoe feel soft and springy so when I was running on my toes it almost propelled me forward. Usually, after each run, I'd notice some twinges and tenderness in my feet, but I haven't experienced that while training in the Pegasus 37s.
I also noticed my leg muscles were far less sore when I'd train in my 37s compared to my previous sneakers. I could tell that the additional cushioning was absorbing the impact from my runs, especially when I switched terrain from asphalt to dirt.
My run program consisted of a variety of runs from the Nike Run Club app including fartlek runs (a single run where your shift between a fast and slow-paced without stopping), hill sessions (yep, dreaded hill sprints) and longer, slower recovery runs. As well as bodyweight training, strength and yoga sessions that each complemented my runs by strengthening the right muscle groups and aiding in my recovery. Each workout was under an hour and we're easy to fit into my Winter workout schedule, especially in isolation.
Between the personalised running program and the Pegasus 37s, I ended up smashing my 5km PB at the end of the four weeks. I've also grown to love running even more and now understand why runners cycle through sneakers so often. If you're going to pound the pavement you need a shoe that's going to show up as ready to train as you are. If you're a runner, I highly recommend investing in the Air Zoom Pegasus 37s, you'll be pleasantly surprised at how much they change your stride for the better.
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The United Kingdom’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been widely critiqued and even Prime Minister Boris Johnson has acknowledged that it could have been handled “differently”. However, perhaps, Australia has something to learn from at least some of Johnson’s public health initiatives? That’s the suggestion from Jane Martin, Executive […]
Over the last six months, we've been forced to look for practical ways to workout from home with minimal equipment, space and time. We've swapped gyms and pilates studios for indoor workouts, virtual classes and zoom training sessions in the hopes of staying fit and healthy during isolation.
Now, Kayla Itsines, has released a fresh 16-week equipment free program (which includes 4 beginner weeks) to make working out at home that much easier. Featuring upper-body, lower-body, full-body and ab workouts that have been specifically designed to require zero equipment, this new program can all be done using just the space of your yoga mat.
Each week, you'll have six new resistance workouts to choose from meaning you can create a workout plan to fit in with your schedule. The program offers 70 new exercises that have never been included in BBG workouts before, and you can choose a workout style that suits you - including circuit, express, original BBG circuit, plus new bootcamp workouts.
According to BBG founder and SWEAT trainer, Kayla Itsines, the program is designed to assist women in improving their fitness levels, functional movement, core stability and strength. "Talking and listening to many women around the world in the past few months, I understand the many complexities and barriers that women are facing to exercise during this time," said Kayla. "It can be daunting not having access to a gym and having to workout at home without equipment whilst trying to juggle the pressures of living and working."
The new 16-week no equipment workout is now available through the SWEAT app.
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Every week, a different guest tweeter takes charge of Croakey’s rotated, curated Twitter account, @WePublicHealth, and uses the account to cover specific health issues or events. During the week of 27 July, Susan Biggar – @susanbbiggar – covered the importance of patient-centred care and patient engagement, especially during the pandemic, […]
During this endless season of cancellations and time at home, I’ve had to look for new ways to entertain and challenge myself. Like many of you, I baked a lot of bread. I reorganized my closet, twice. I finished Netflix.
When one of my recent YouTube rabbit holes led to a video for a “Stretching Challenge,” I was intrigued. We runners aren’t widely known for doing the strength and after-care required to stay limber and injury-free. Also, my cranky, middle-age lady hips were begging for some attention.
I scrolled through several apps and settled on “30 Day Splits Challenge.” (I didn’t plan on being able to do front splits in the next year, let alone in one month, but it was free and had good all-around stretches.) It would lead me through 30 days of stretches, giving me a little satisfactory checkmark next to each day I completed the routine. Each day lasted about 15-20 minutes, and I made a pact with myself: I would to the stretching challenge if could watch mindless TV as I limbered up.
Day 1: After an easy warm-up, my first thought was, “This was a terrible mistake.” I didn’t know the Heron Pose was going to be a part of the routine. When that popped up, I had to stop everything, and Google Heron Pose images to confirm the actual position. There might have been some swearing while I attempted all kinds of nonsense to get my body to bend in a way that did not even remotely look like the woman in the picture. I was not off to a great start.
Day 6: I had to talk myself into stretching because the reality of how inflexible I had become over the years was disappointing. I usually do some calf stretches and call it good. This was much more intentional, much more time-consuming, and much more ambitious.
Day 11: I had hoped it would get better. It did and it didn’t. I swore less, but I still looked like a seal on a beach, trying to make its body do things that were better suited to an animal with more joints. I wasn’t as sore, but I still had trouble balancing and would tip over in the middle of a quad-stretch. A new low in my fitness journey.
Day 21: I had the sequence of stretches memorized and didn’t really need the app anymore, but I liked the little dings and appreciated the timer that kept me on task. I was more impressed with my consistency than the actual stretching. The Heron Pose—and the front splits—was never going to happen, but going through the routine and holding each stretch as best I could was a win in my book.
Day 25: I noticed some physical changes that made me happy. Touching my toes no longer felt tight. I felt—dare I say—flexible. My right hamstring that usually barked at the end of a long hike wasn’t as grouchy, and it didn’t take as much effort to hold each stretch the way it had on day one.
Day 30: Hallelujah! I made it. While I’m never going to be Cirque Du Soleil material, I was definitely more limber and none of the stretches (aside from, of course, my pal the Heron) felt difficult anymore. Repetition does have some rewards. Yay me!
My thoughts on a stretching challenge: I want to be the kind of person that will keep stretching every day. I’m returning to running after several months with a grouchy Achilles, and I have no doubt stretching helped. Even if I don’t stretch every day, a variety of stretches a few times a week will go a long way to making my body happy.
My thoughts on streak challenges: A good challenge can move you out of your comfort zone and help you flex that consistency muscle. During these days of uncertainty, it can be soothing to stick to a routine, even if it is just for a few weeks.
But if any kind of challenge brings you shame or utter frustration, let it go. Life is too short for that nonsense. That said, if you can successfully get into and hold a decent Heron—or shimmy on down to the splits—I am in awe.
How flexible are you?
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Our true north – the sonar calling to our deeper impulses – is an orientation to freedom. An expression of passion. It’s being in our power – agile, compassionate, quick-witted; able to transform incoming ‘data’ into aligned action. It’s about clarity, presence and enjoying an uplifted spirit. It’s not about what we’re not doing.
Passion can only be expressed …when it is being expressed. A simple observation, perhaps; though not without its challenges. Because most of us – at some point – drift into noticing what we are not doing rather than what we are. And our soul does not like to spend time dragging in the lower vibrational groove of what we consciously if silently, know is of little value.
Passion, like all energies, will flow towards what it is attracted to. So, if we are not willing to ‘be’ our passion, it will find its direction towards others who are being, in perhaps subtle or unseen ways, what we discreetly, or desperately, want within. As like attracts like, our disowned passion gains empowerment through the experience of others, taking our focus with it – bypassing our core presence. To numb our underlying dis-ease, we may resist further still: caught in a cycle of diverting or dismissing our innate life-force – rather than expressing it through our voice, our movements, our being. And so, we allow it to remain hidden – outside of us. Disconnected.
Passion though is persistent. And for this, we must be thankful; despite the discomfort, it may cause. ‘It’ knows its true north: that we are the only true and valid expression of its being; the home it must flow through …the reason for its presence in its unique form. What we don’t allow through us, cannot be. Our passion knows this, and so, it will keep knocking, quietly, at the door of our soul. Our job is to let it in.
There are some key aspects to allowing our passion to flow; awarenesses which invite greater harmony and can transform our experience of our-self – especially in times of change or challenge. Ask your passion which of the following ‘it’ resonates with, and allow the connection to happen. You may be surprised at what wishes to come through.
When we allow our passion to flow, we align with the forces of the universe – the vast and the minute, the possible…and the here and now. We become our true vibration.
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Delilah Sullivan – Spiritual Teacher, Writer and Energy Healer – is passionate about life, connection and beauty. A diverse background, Delilah shares gems of knowledge: about personal energy management, creativity, cultivating grounded presence, life experiences and our connection to each other, nature and the emerging ‘bigger picture’.
Channeler of the popular ‘Downloads from Spirit’ podcast and Private Consultant, she supports her clients to align their projects, land and energetic blueprints, opportunities and desires, sharing unique insight and awareness. Find her in nature or the city – for fascinating perspectives and conversations. Follow her on Instagram and her website.
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It was 3 a.m. when I calmly hopped in the back seat of an Uber. The driver turned around, confused, and said, "We're dropping you off at the emergency room?"
It was a first for both of us. I felt foolish, but this was the easiest way to get to the hospital as a young woman living alone in San Francisco. Over the past few weeks, I'd experienced a severe cough and trouble breathing. That night, my breathing was so labored that I couldn't sleep. After calling a nurse line, I was urged to go to the hospital to get it checked out.
So there I sat, completely alone in the emergency room, in a city I'd only lived in for two months. I felt even more foolish when the various tests that were done on my lungs showed nothing unusual. The doctor asked, "Has anything significant spiked your stress level recently?"
My body was trying desperately to cope with the immense changes that had taken place in every aspect of my life.
Until then, I assumed I had an odd summer cold that had morphed into something more serious. But in reality, my body was trying desperately to cope with the immense changes that had taken place in every aspect of my life. I was living in a city bigger than any place I'd lived before, while adjusting to a new role at a startup in an incredibly fast-paced environment. I hadn't given myself the time or space to process everything that had happened, and it threw my body for a loop.
I've experienced physical symptoms of stress throughout my life, though they vary from one moment to the next. Lately, I've been clenching my jaw so hard that I'll have a headache for weeks on end. Even as I tell myself to stop doing it, my bones remain locked in, just as tightly as my focus.
When these symptoms first arise, I never associate them with what's going on in my life. For some reason, my body and mind don't link up in that way - but over the last few months, I've made an effort to recognise these physical symptoms for what they are: stress.
We've all been there. You're in the middle of a chaotic week and a mountainous zit pops up your chin. You feel bloated after stress eating takeout for the fourth time this week. Your neck and shoulders ache from hunching over your laptop for too long. Your stomach, your head, your muscles, your mind ache for relief.
When my life becomes chaotic, I often stop everything and give myself over to a hellish week. I'll stay up far too late, eat out for convenience, skip a workout for more sleep, and leave my apartment a mess. Then that headache starts creeping in. My shoulder and neck muscles get a little sore. The sore throat I thought was gone is back with a new fire.
In my efforts to mitigate the effects of stress, I've learned how important routine can be. When it feels like everything is about to spin out of control, I try to lean even harder into my routine. I remind myself to slow down and stay the course. It may seem impossible to wake up an hour earlier for a quick run, but as I hop in the shower sweaty and out of breath, I feel lighter instead of exhausted. I may not feel like making a quick dinner before running off to the next event, but cooking gives me a chance to breathe, even if it's just for a moment while I wait for the water to boil.
One of the most helpful tools I've learned, though, is separating whatever's stressing me out from the rest of my life and staying present in the moment. My therapist always reminds to stay right here, instead of letting a problem swallow me whole. In the past, I would pull away from friends, stay awake overthinking, and unravel altogether.
For me, yoga has been immensely helpful in learning to hit the brakes. It takes me almost 20 minutes to let go of everything circulating in my brain, but eventually, as a focus on my breath and how my body feels, I notice my jaw unclench and my heart rate slow. Yoga may not be your thing, but I recommend finding something that helps take your mind off your stressors: another workout, a book club, or trying new recipes, for example. If you can escape these things that consume you, you'll reduce stress in the moment and minimize the long-term harm it can cause.
Of course, sometimes a solid routine or practicing self-care just won't cut it, and that's OK. If that's the case, talk to a therapist or your doctor. Asking for help is one of the best things you can do.
A warming and nutritious winter dinner that the entire family will enjoy. This is a great one to serve with chicken, fish or meat. Happy cooking!
Time to cook: 25 minutes
Serves: 2-3
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CBC has launched an expanded ‘Being Black in Canada’ website featuring the stories and experiences of Black Canadians. Highlighting narratives that matter to Black communities—from individual successes to historical content—the site showcases profiles, opinion pieces, video, audio and more content across all areas of CBC.
CBC has been producing and publishing content under the Being Black in Canada project since 2013, with an online iteration launching in 2018. Initially conceived as a Black History Month program for CBC News Network, the program featured interviews with notable Black Canadians and focused on topics like Canadian Black history and culture, racism, parenthood, and activism.
Being Black in Canada is a CBC-wide project highlighting the stories and experiences of Black Canadians from across the country in one digital space. https://t.co/pGppAGJFHu
— CBC News (@CBCNews) July 26, 2020
Stories on the expanded site include a three-part series exploring the history of Black gospel music in Canada, a feature on how Ottawa-based poet MayaSpoken “learned to embrace her inner angry Black woman,” and a first-person essay from basketball player Guillaume Payen Boucard.
“I am excited by the opportunity of this website, which will undoubtedly play an important role in helping us move forward. Being Black in Canada offers a window into the struggles while celebrating the culture and achievements of Black communities,” said Barbara Williams, Executive Vice-President of CBC.
The expanded Being Black in Canada website launches alongside a one-hour CBC original special of the same name, featuring news, current affairs and arts content hosted by Asha Tomlinson, available now on CBC Gem. The hour-long special addresses the renewed fight against anti-Black racism and features Black Lives Matter activists as well as Black community members who are pushing for change. The special also includes new interviews with the cast and creative team of CBC original miniseries The Book of Negroes.
In addition, the new Black Stories Collection, showcasing Black creators and stories from Canada and around the world, is now available to view on the free CBC Gem streaming service.
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Yesterday at the AMA’s National Conference, members elected a new President, Dr Omar Khorshid, and Vice President, Dr Chris Moy. The election follows the conclusion of the two-year term of President Dr Tony Bartone and Vice President Dr Chris Zappala. What does this changing of the guard mean for the […]
Juicy and tender grilled lamb burgers topped with a fresh-flavored Greek yogurt sauce and a quick tomato salsa. This post ...Sun safety is no joke and while we lather up with SPF on the reg, are we really doing enough? Hats and light layers are staples in the summer but consider elevating your style and safety with UPF sun protective clothing. UPF – which stands for ultraviolet protective factor – is the standard measurement of sun protection in fabrics: for example, a piece with UPF 50 eliminates 98% of UV on the areas protected by the clothing. Sun protective fabrics are popular in rash guards and swimwear but collections have expanded to serve every function. From the perfect cardigan to protect your shoulders to a breezy shirt dress, UPF clothing options are endless. Find a look that compliments your style, whether you’re going on a hike or headed to the grocery store. Keep feeling fresh without the fear of sun damage and let lotion be a necessary accessory to a sun safe look.
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Spaghetti with Sauteed Chicken and Grape Tomatoes, a pasta inspired by the abundance of tomatoes and basil in my garden this year.
Each summer, I plant every variety of tomatoes, including grape tomatoes. Grape tomatoes are always the first to grow and ripen. Since I usually wind up with more than I can eat in salads, I like to create new recipes with them. Adding them to pasta is one of my favorite ways to cook them. Some other recipes with grape tomatoes you make like are Spiralized Zucchini and Grape Tomatoes, Angel Hair Pasta with Zucchini and Tomatoes, and Sheet Pan Shrimp with Broccolini and Tomatoes.
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No two days are alike when it comes to my fitness routine, except for my cooldowns. Since I rotate between barre, Pilates, yoga, and jogs to prevent workout boredom, I need a one-size-fits-all cooldown to keep me feeling good.
"Simplicity is the key [to any cooldown]," Holly Strickland - a NASM-certified personal trainer and franchise partner with Burn Boot Camp Naples - says. In her opinion, it only takes 5-10 minutes to help with recovery, soreness, and injury prevention.
That's why the expert's 10-minute cooldown plan is my go-to - there are really no excuses as to why I can't make time to do it after any sweat. Strickland says it can be used for anything from running to leg day.
"During this portion of the workout, we are slowing [the] heart rate down and stretching out the muscles we used during the workout," Strickland explains.
See for yourself how effective, easy, and adaptable Strickland's cooldown is by completing one to two rounds of the stretching routine, ahead. Spend 45-90 seconds on each movement with no rests in-between - unless your body starts telling you otherwise.
