Nutrition & Exercise

Whether your looking to meet healthy and active or just trying to keep up your Fitness, you better move it or lose it! YOURLifeChoices features the latest information to keep you active, while providing informative Healthy Eating tips and Comfort Food Recipes. 

Dr Ross Walker’s 5 tips for a longer life

The way to achieve the health and vitality that we all need is to practice what I call ‘The Walker 5-Point Plan to a Healthy Life’. These are the five things we should all be doing, in increasing order of importance:
5. Keep down your belly fat. And it’s not so much about weight anywhere else, because belly fat is the dangerous fat.

4. Have no addictions. You cannot be healthy and smoke, you cannot be healthy and have too much alcohol, and you certainly can’t be healthy and use illegal drugs. (I’m sure none of you reading this would do that anyhow!)

3. Eat healthily (the third best drug on the planet). Good healthy eating, and less of it, is a very simple but powerful thing. The principle is to eat less and more naturally.

2. Do exercise (the second best drug on the planet). The Walker suggested dose is at least three hours of testing exercise per week, to the point where you get a bit hot and a bit short of breath.

1. Be happy (the best drug on the planet). Happiness, peace and contentment is the final, most important part of the 5-point plan. And it’s no-one else’s job to make you happy, that’s your job. The more happiness and peace and contentment you can achieve, the better and healthier you will be.

Walk to a healthy heart

Heart Foundation Walking (HFW) is a network of free community-based walking groups with volunteer Walk Organisers that lead groups in their local area.

HFW builds upon the very successful Heart Foundation Just Walk It program that has been in operation in some states since 1995.

What is Heart Foundation Walking?

The Heart Foundation works in partnership with an Area Coordinator to establish walking groups in the local community. Area Coordinators may be from health or community centres, councils or workplaces. These Area Coordinators work with the Heart Foundation to assist volunteer Walk Organisers to recruit walkers and establish groups.

Community-based volunteer Walk Organisers lead these groups in their local area. They are provided with resources, training and support to begin and maintain their group. They also receive complimentary merchandise as a ‘thank you’ for their role in organising a local walking group.

Walkers are provided with information outlining Heart Foundation Walking and can choose to join the Walker Recognition Scheme which includes certificates and other incentives when they reach walking milestones (e.g. 25 walks).

To start or join a walking group near you visit www.heartfoundation.org.au/walking.

Did you know

It is now estimated that about 35% of deaths from cancer in economically developed countries may be prevented if everyone had a healthy diet.
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