Keep your bones healthy now and you’ll thank yourself later. Osteoporosis affects one in three women and one in eight men across the world. It is a condition that causes the bones to become brittle and fracture or break easily. Although it mostly affects older women, there are things you can do to keep you […]
Want healthy hair? Follow these simple tips. To have great hair, you need to be healthy on the inside as well as the outside. That means you need to eat the right foods. Essential fatty acids that you can get from whole grains, fresh nuts and dark green leafy vegetables help to improve the texture […]
Drinking alcohol can damage your unborn baby. Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is brain damage and other disorders that can be caused to children through women drinking during their pregnancy. This is because alcohol interferes with the normal development of a foetus (the baby growing in the womb). FASD includes: Foetal alcohol syndrome Growth retardation; […]
If you’re going to leave your car, take your kids with you. Children can die in hot cars. According to Kidsafe (the Child Accident Prevention Foundation of Australia), on a typical summer’s day the temperature inside a parked car can rise to as much as 30 to 40 degrees higher than the outside temperature. That […]
The Pap smear – a simple test that can save your life. Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable and curable of all cancers. Despite this, each year in Australia more than 300 women die from it. But the good news is, up to 90 per cent of the most common type of cervical […]
Give others a second chance – consider organ donation. For people suffering from a serious or life-threatening condition, organ donation can mean a second chance at life. More than 30,000 Australian have received transplants over the past 60 years, with improved survival rates now meaning that more recipients of donated organs or tissue can look […]
Suicide is not the way out. Don’t be shame to ask for help. Suicide used to be rare among traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Sadly, it has become a lot more common in recent years. In fact, suicide now occurs more frequently in Aboriginal communities than among non-Indigenous people. Suicide is more common […]
Crohn’s disease is a chronic condition, but one that can be managed. Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory condition that affects the gastrointestinal tract – the part of your digestive system where your body processes food and gets rid of waste. It includes the oesophagus, stomach, liver, intestines, and rectum. It’s a long-term medical problem that […]
Together we are building a happier, healthier community. The recent release of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey 2004-2005 revealed that there are still lots of health problems in our community. But it also showed that we are becoming more responsible about getting the health care we need. According to the survey, […]
Not all fats are bad. In fact, fat can be your friend! When you think of fat in food, the picture that first comes to mind is usually that of a steaming pile of greasy fish and chips, or deep fried Mars Bars smothered in ice-cream . . . . mmmmmnnn. But these are foods […]
New research highlights serious fever risk that’s hurting our kids. New research has found that Indigenous kids are being increasingly struck down by acute rheumatic fever while the rest of the population remains relatively unaffected. Rheumatic fever is an infection that is a delayed complication of an untreated throat infection (strep throat) . It’s an […]
Hepatitis C is spreading fast, but there are ways to protect yourself. Hepatitis C is the most reported infectious disease over the last 10 years in Australia, with an estimated 16,000 new infections every year. There are estimated to be approximately 242,000 people with hepatitis C in Australia, but more recently a survey indicated that […]
It’s one of the biggest health problems facing our community. Make sure you have the facts. It might feel like everywhere you turn people are banging on about diabetes, but the fact is, diabetes is still affecting more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people than other Australians. A recent study by the Australian Institute of […]
The Right Stuff Vitamins – we all need them, but how do we get them? We all need vitamins to keep our bodies healthy and in good working order. Vitamins are organic compounds that occur naturally in foods – our bodies can’t produce them ourselves, so you need to eat the right foods to provide […]
Every single cigarette you smoke is harming your body. The list of health problems caused by smoking is literally endless. The problem is, most of us think that smoking-related illness only happens to old people who’ve been smoking all their lives. Wrong – smoking starts to hurt your health from the very first puff, no […]
Your smoking doesn’t just hurt you ” it hurts your family too. When you’re smoking, other people around you are also exposed to your cigarette smoke. When other people breathe that smoke in, this is called passive smoking. There are three types of passive smoke produced by cigarette smoking. They are: Mainstream smoke ” this […]
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