It’s Back to School time of the year again, which means new uniforms, books, lunchboxes and of course a new backpack. Backpacks can come in many shapes and sizes, but to ensure you choose the right one for your child make sure it has the following characteristics:

The backpack is the right size for your child – A backpack should be no wider than the chest of the child who’s wearing it. The top of the pack should be no higher than the shoulders and it should not hang below the

12 days of Christmas, 12 Christmas survival tips.

While the festive season can be a joyous time, it can also be a very stressful one, impacting our physical and emotional health. To help keep your health and well being on track, here are our top 12 tips!

1. Keep moving

Adults should achieve 30 minutes of exercise each day, and this time of the year is no exception. In addition to helping kick those Christmas calories, exercise also releases endorphins to help boost your energy and mood.  The festive season is the perfect

New research proves tomatoes cause weight gain in some yet weight loss in others (10). This is why your child can literally live on salad and still gain weight! It’s true, let me explain …

After 20 years of researching weight loss, health experts across the globe agreed that environmental pollutants played a significant role on childhood health (2).

However, what is new and exciting is the influence these have on microbiome diversity and everyone who wants to maintain a healthy bodyweight – no matter what age – needs to know this

Weight gain over winter is more common than you think, with nearly 40% of women and 50% of men gaining up to 5kg over the cold season.

Now that September has arrived, we’re being greeted with longer days, warmer temperatures and a greater availability of fresh fruits and vegetables, making this time of the year the perfect time to “spring clean” our health and lifestyle habits.

If you’re looking to get your health back on track but don’t know where to start, here are our top 5 ideas:

 1 – Clean up your

Ever since you were a teenager your Sex Ed teacher, or probably your parents, drilled into you the importance of contraception. The ever looming ‘threat’ of pregnancy drilled into you as if it were easy.

So, you can imagine the frustration when you finally get to an age when a child doesn’t seem like such a crazy idea, and to find you’re one of the one in 6 couples in Australia affected by unexplained infertility caused by accelerated reproductive aging.

Accelerated aging of the reproductive system and aging eggs is triggered by

Feeling run down with a sore throat, runny nose, pounding head, cough, or fever? Perhaps you have not yet fully recovered from your last cold or flu and are feeling tired and exhausted?

Don’t suffer in silence waiting for your cold to run its course or to gradually feel better again. Instead, try these easy, natural ways to help you kick that lurgy and feel better, fast.

Your Natural Medicine Cabinet

Did you know that natural medicines do double duty when fighting an infection? Not only do they help you feel better quicker

We’ve just reached two-thirds of the way through 2019 and if you’re yet to have a nice holiday or any time off, you’re probably starting to feel overwhelmed, tired, emotionally drained and unable to meet constant demands.

With more people working longer hours than ever, feeling stressed about work is extremely common. In fact, the World Health Organisation has recently deemed burnout as a workplace phenomenon. Work burnout is a state of physical, emotional and mental exhaustion that also involves feelings of reduced accomplishment. It is caused by excessive and prolonged

If you’ve been suffering from a runny nose, blocked sinuses or a lingering cough it seems that you’re not alone. According to the Department of Health, between April and May the amount of people presenting with flu – like symptoms was more than twice the five-year average.

With many people suffering from these symptoms earlier than expected, we could be in for an uncomfortable winter if we don’t make some simple changes to help our immune system function better.

Here are my top 10 tips to help naturally boost your immune system:

1. 

If you want to improve your hormones, you need to detox.

The accumulation of heavy metals such as mercury cause hormonal problems in both men and women, of all ages.  Mercury can interfere with the production or action of hormones and fertility. This means it can influence your health through every life stage; from puberty, fertility and menopause.

Heavy Metals, a link to Hormone Imbalance

Mercury is a nasty heavy metal that a lot of people are exposed to through dental fillings and diet.  Foods such as anchovies, albacore tuna, salmon, shrimp and