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September 2011

Welcome to the September Newsletter.

Finally, spring is here. Hope you all survived winter without putting a few extra centimetres around your waist. If not, then it's time to start shaping up before summer arrives. A healthy lifestyle involves regular exercise, healthy eating, having quality sleep and managing your stress.

In this issue:

1. Get the most out of your workouts.
2. Medications and food.
3. Spring Into Shape Series.
4. Interesting stuff.

Eat well and train hard.

Andrew

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Get The Most Out Of Your Workouts

Some of us train within our comfort zones, but if you keep doing the same thing all the time you won’t see any improvements. If you’re not trimming down, toning up, or feeling any fitter, it could be because you’ve hit a plateau. There are many reasons why this can happen, but you can change things up and get back to achieving results.

 

Medications and Food

It is important that before taking any medication, you should read the package instructions (and/or check with your doctor or pharmacist) about any dietary precautions. This is because some medications may alter your nutritional needs while some foods can interfere with how a medication works. For example, some cholesterol-lowering medications can reduce the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins (vitamins A, D, E and K) or foods that are rich in vitamin K (essential for clotting blood) can interfere with blood thinners like Warfarin.

The National Prescribing Service (NPS) provides independent, evidence-based information about medicines and medical tests. The NPS works with health professionals, consumers, government and industry to improve the health of all Australians. You can search their database for up-to-date information on over 1,500 prescription and pharmacist-only medicines, including potential side effects. Their website address is www.nps.org.au.

 

Spring Into Shape Series

If you have been training for the City to Surf and the Blackmores Running Festival, you may want to add the Spring Into Shape Series in your calendar, while also raising funds for the Heart Foundation.

The Shape Sydney Series will be held at Parramatta Park on Saturday, 8 October and Saturday, 5 November. The course offers a choice of a 4 km run/walk or a 8 km run/walk. By maintaining the same course distances across the two race series it allows participants to increase and gauge their fitness improvement. You can enter the series or a single event – it’s up to you. For more information, click on the link below.
www.starttofinish.com.au/default.aspx?s=eventdisplay&id=2013

 

Interesting Stuff

In addition to eNewsletters and blogs, we also provide other health and fitness information on our Facebook page. For those of you who are not on Facebook, below are our posts during August 2011:

• What's Really In Chicken McNuggets? (Scary) [Ever wonder what's really found in McDonald's Chicken McNuggets?]
• Proactive recovery nutrition for runners [Do you know what’s best to eat after a long run, endurance activity or sports event?]
• Healthy Habits Can Add 15 Years to Your Life [Women with a healthy lifestyle such as a Mediterranean diet, regular exercise, not smoking, and maintaining a healthy weight, are more likely to live 15 years longer than their less healthy counterparts.]
• Dramatic post-baby weight loss [Tips on post-baby weight loss...definitely do not use Posh or celebrities as an example!!]
• Run feels less fun as afterburn kicks in [Want to know why you were feeling so sore after the City to Surf?]
• MSG in Food [Monosodium glutamate (MSG) can cause nausea & headaches for some people.]
• Food for kids [Want to find out how healthy some kids' foods are? Check out the traffic light system used by Choice.]
• Tired and tested [Are you getting enough sleep? Here are some factors that can lead to insomnia.]
• Pure and simple [Choosing healthy foods isn't as complicated as you might think.]
• Inhaler Technique Videos [Did you know that up to 90% of people aren’t using their asthma inhalers the right way?]

 

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Nothing contained in this Newsletter is intended to be used as medical advice and is not intended to be used to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, nor should it be used for therapeutic purposes or as a substitute for your own health professional's advice.

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