Focusing clearly on the benefits of consuming a calcium rich lunch during primary school days is one of the major aims this year of Healthy Bones Week August 3-9.
Building bone density during childhood and teenage years is especially important. It’s during this time, just before puberty that the body is most efficient at storing...
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Archive for July, 2008
Primary school prevention of brittle bones
Preventing life’s little spills
National Continence Awareness Week 2008 (August 3-9) will focus on mothers and children. For children the issue of bedwetting will be the major area of attention, while for mothers, the emphasis is on the importance of pelvic floor exercises.
Incontinence is the term given to the loss of voluntary control over bladder or bowel function;...
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Beyond reasonable drought
The MAP (many Australian photographers) group, which consists of about 80 photographers with a passion for high quality documentary image making, have recently completed a project recording the impact on Australia of the ten year drought.
Called Beyond Reasonable Drought the exhibition is currently on view at Old Parliament House in Canberra; and from October...
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Taking precautions
The introduction to the Australian market of a new formulation of the so-called combined hormonal oral contraceptive pill has focussed attention on what is considered a fairly recent innovation in medicine. But the concept of contraception, and even of oral contraception, is not all that new.
Taking precautions: the story of contraception was recently the...
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Measuring the benefits of weight management
Australia’s Health 2008, the recently released report of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), provided mostly good news; but bad news in one significant respect.
Worldwide, diabetes has reached epidemic proportions, and that epidemic has spread to Australia.
It’s been conservatively estimated that 1 million Australians are affected by diabetes and this number could...
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