Health Tips Blog

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death worldwide. This occurs when the heart or blood vessels can no longer pump blood around the body and deliver oxygen to tissues sufficiently, including during a heart attack, stroke or heart failure. What...

Did you know it can take hours to digest our food? Even though we eat our food quite fast, it takes a long time to be fully digested by our bodies. Poor digestion can make you feel uncomfortable, give you cramps and cause changes in your bowel habits. So how fast do...

It's Walk to Work Day! Walking for just 30 minutes every day has been linked with a variety of different health benefits. So what is walking helpful with? Maintaining a healthy weight. Building and strengthening your muscles - helping to relieve the strain on your...

Our muscles do so much for us: they allow us to walk around and carry things. One way to help maintain our muscle health is to stretch. How often should we stretch? Start small and slowly increase how often you stretch as your body adjusts and never stretch to the...

This National Pain Week we're focusing on raising awareness around chronic pain. 1 in 5 Australians experience chronic pain. What is Pain? Pain is experienced differently by every person but often goes away once we begin to heal. However, sometime we can experience...

What muscle in our bodies never gets tired? The Heart! Our heart is made up of cardiac muscle that contracts and relaxes continuously to keep our blood moving around our bodies in order to keep us alive. What do our muscles do for us? Our muscles are essential for us...