Healthy Food Swaps: Breakfast Keeping up with recommended guidelines for healthy nutrition isn’t as difficult as it sounds. Here are some practical ways to boost your nutritional health. Health Breaks Trying to follow healthy eating guidelines and deciphering good information from ‘bad’ can sometimes feel so overwhelming. Translating evidence-based nutrition theory into practice and making…
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Formal definitions of health relate health to the absence of disease and the presence of wellbeing in mind and body. The World Health Organisation, for example, define health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, where the Merriam-Webster dictionary site health as the…
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When I set about starting my first business in the mid 90s, nurturing a positive and supportive workplace culture was crucial. What this meant to me at the time was creating a physical space good staff would like to come to each day. Maintaining a clean work environment and providing fresh water and a well-stocked…
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The 7 Healthy Habits for remote Workers Click edit button to change this text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo. HEALTH BREAKS Working from home involves more than shifting locations. It entails a whole-world shift. There’s no commute to and from work, there are…
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Burntout? It’s time to take a break! Feeling burnout when working from home is becoming commonplace HEALTH BREAKS Feeling a bit flat or worn out lately? There’s good reason. The move to remote and blended working has blurred the lines between work and life more than ever! While burnout is not an officially recognised…
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How much exercise? New WHO guidelines on physical activity just released! HEALTH BREAKS It seems that exercise is in fact medicine. Whats more, it’s possibly the cheapest form of medicine on the market! If Australian’s showed the same level of commitment and diligence in meeting the recommendations for physical activity as they did for actions…
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How to conduct a successful corporate health challenge A Case Study of Health outcomes of an innovative corporate health challenge HEALTH BREAKS An innovative corporate health challenge conducted by Health Breaks across four organisations during COVID-19 stage 4 lockdowns in Melbourne achieved remarkable health outcomes across many variables. While the intention was to increase physical…
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How to manage your Emotions How the Emotions Wheel can help you explore how your emotions are impacting you HEALTH BREAKS Emotions are feelings we experience in reaction to acute and ongoing stimulus. Emotions can impact our thoughts, our actions and our behaviours. Sometimes our emotions are fleeting and at other times they are enduring…
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The Health Breaks Mental Health Wheel provides a non-threatening tool for both managers and employees to open-up the mental health conversation.
Are you drinking more alcohol lately? When so much has been taken from us and with no certainty in sight, alcohol can become that comforting friend…….how is this affecting you? HEALTH BREAKS According to the statistics reported by the Alcohol and Drug Foundation (one of our valued clients), over the last few months a lot of…
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Micro-goals: how to optimise the here and now In times of uncertainty, planning too far ahead can seem impossible HEALTH BREAKS Over the past 12 months, we have succumbed to enforced guidelines on what we can or can’t do. Why not block the external noise out for a moment and take the time to think…
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Why setting goals may not lead to taking action How ready are you to make the changes to your health that you would like to? Health Breaks Sometimes there’s a gap between what we want to achieve and actually doing something about it. Often intentions do not align with actions. This can be due to your…
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Working remotely blurs the lines between work life and family life. At times when the whole family is sharing a study/work space, here are some fun activities that can bring the family together in a healthy and energising way.
Working or studying for long stretches without breaks leads to stress and exhaustion. Taking breaks refreshes the mind, replenishes your mental resources, and helps you become more creative. Switching off opens the mind ……why? Let’s take a look at how our brains work. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is the thinking part of your brain. It is active for goal-oriented work…
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Within a whisper that this current lockdown was looming, the long queues out the front of butchers and the empty meat shelves in the supermarket had everyone in a frenzy. “What are we going to do with out meat??”. So here’s our chance to collectively reach, and even smash, the national recommendation for vegetable intake.…
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