Category Archives: Wellness

22 Feb 2023

Understanding Mindfulness

Have you ever driven somewhere, only to arrive without remembering much about the journey?

It is very common for most of us to be on auto-pilot as we go about our day-to-day doings, with millions of other things going on in our minds.

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19 Dec 2022

Cultivating A Sense of Calm This Christmas

Let’s face it, this can be a crazy time of year and it’s easy to get caught up in the hype of the silly season. Here are some of our top tips for making the festive season a little less chaotic for you and your family!

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05 Dec 2022

The Importance of Protein

Do you know how much protein you should be consuming per day? How do things like our gender, health and pregnancy affect this amount? Read on to find out.

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22 Nov 2022

Life after Stroke and Stroke Rehabilitation 

Keely MacLean Clinical Exercise Physiologist (Student) 22/11/22    A stroke is something that we don’t see coming but it can have profound and sometimes lasting effects. We as Exercise Physiologists tend to shape our rehabilitation methods around something called ‘neuroplasticity’, so what is it and why is it so important?   What is a stroke?…

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01 Nov 2022

Play Based Exercise for Kids – What is it and why is it important?

Hannah Bain Accredited Exercise Physiologist     Less than 23% of 5 – 14 years old’s are moving for 60 minutes per day…. Most of us are aware of the adult recommendations for physical activity (150-300 minutes of moderate to vigorous intensity activity per week). But how well do we know the recommendations for children…

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24 Oct 2022

Personalised Nutrition and Advances in DNA Research

Nutrigenomics is the study of how our genes (or DNA) affect the relationship between the food we eat and our bodies. It’s a booming industry and it’s forecast to get even bigger. The mapping of the human genome back in the 1990s brought about an era of science never seen before and by the early…

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