March, 2016

• 20 March

  How to deal with the crappy hand life can throw at you …by a man who knows better than most

  

  Jeremy McGhee was 25 when he was hit by a car in 2001, while riding his motorbike to run errands a few blocks from home. “I remember everything about the accident,” he says. “I worked in trauma [as a lifeguard] so I was sort of self-assessing as it was happening. ...

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• 20 March

  “Make the rest of your life the best of your life”

  

  When Kim Kardashian set out to “break the internet” by baring her bottom on the cover of a magazine last year, she could have taken her styling cues from 55-year-old Melbourne man Craig Coombes, for whom posing in his birthday suit is a weekly event. Coombsey, as he’s known to ...

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• 20 March

  Have you been pooing wrong this whole time?

  

  Going to the toilet should be a straightforward affair – go to the toilet, sit down, do your business and away you go. However according to microbiologist and author of Charming Bowels it seems we shouldn’t actually be sitting but squatting when we’re on the loo. Enders cites numerous studies ...

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• 20 March

  Is technology making you sick?

  

  Headphone-related hearing loss Remember when your parents used to yell, “Turn it down”? With headphones, that’s no longer necessary but, according to the journal Pediatrics, more than 12 per cent of children suffer from noise-inducedhearing loss due to hazardous levels of noise. And it’s simply a matter of volume. Experts ...

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• 20 March

  How a rocking chair can help you heal

  

  In 1955, former US president John F Kennedy was prescribed a rocking chair by his doctor to alleviate his chronic back pain. JFK found it so effective that he took one on Air Force One, used one at Camp David and also on his family estate.JFK’s doctor was on to ...

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• 20 March

  Rent or buy? What it means for your financial health

  

  Owning a property is often referred to as the great Australian dream, and it’s widely seen as a sign of success, a path to a better life. It’s also a very hot topic. For every three properties in Australia, one is owned outright and doesn’t have a mortgage, another is ...

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• 20 March

  How secrets affect your brain (and your health)

  

  Who doesn’t love the thrill of a secret? From a social perspective, a secret is simply information that’s not common knowledge. It may have an air of mystery or gossip-inducing connotations, usually negative. However, from a scientific perspective, a secret is hard to define. As you process the information, a ...

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• 20 March

  Why tidying may just change your life

  

  Imagine if the path to a more successful, happy and confident you was as simple as tidying your closet and folding your socks the right way. Marie Kondo’s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, promises a dramatic improvement in lifestyle and mindset if you follow her de-cluttering and organisation ...

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• 20 March

  Health benefits of guarana

  

  Guaraná and caffeine Guaraná contains caffeine, the stimulant found in coffee, tea, yerba mate, colas and chocolate. “Guaraná also contains a whole mix of other compounds that act together to stimulate you over and above itscaffeine content,” says Professor Stephen Myers, Director of NatMed-Research at Southern Cross University. In fact, ...

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• 19 March

  Has sports doping hit the suburbs?

  

  Ask the average gym-going, sport-playing teenage boy if he knows any peers who’ve taken steroids and chances are he’ll say yes. Performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs) are no longer the sole domain of the professional or elite sportsperson and body builder. They’re being used and abused at a grassroots, suburban ...

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