Good Health News and Information

Tips For Living With & Managing Asthma

Exercise is seen as an important component of living with asthma. With continuous and gradual exercise, the athlete will develop greater respiratory muscle tone and possibly reduce the need for medication.

Make Or Break Bone Quiz

According to Osteoporosis Australia, this bone breaking disease is more common than high cholesterol. Every 8 minutes, someone is hospitalised with an osteoporotic fracture and by next year the number of Australians with osteoporosis is predicted to reach 2.2 million.

Our quiz will test your nutrition knowledge, give you tips to look after your bone health, and reduce the chance of the news of osteoporosis being broken to you.

Health Benefits of Exercise

The National Heart Foundation has suggested that each individual participate in 30 minutes of accumulated exercise at a moderate intensity on all or most days of the week. While it is considered best to follow these recommendations, it has also been shown that for the sedentary, even slight changes in behaviour, such as a small rise in physical activity, decreases the risk of developing these chronic diseases.