Elite Health Australia

06/04/2024

Add these healthy lifestyle choices to add years to your life…

Adopt one of eight lifestyle habits at age 40, and you could add 4.5 years to your life, a new study found. Add all eight, and you might live up to 24 years longer.

17/05/2023

Check your employee’s physical workload with a Firstbeat Assessment. Contact us now.

Expert organizations around the world are concerned about the declining trend in people’s physical fitness, from the point-of-view of performance at work.

06/05/2023

What’s your employee value proposition?

A recent McKinsey report found “more than a third of digital talent who left their jobs cited a lack of support for employee health and well-being as a key reason driving their departure”. Also interesting to note, a sub reason cited was that organisational leaders were poor role models for balancing work and personal responsibilities.

Even with recent industry layoffs, the tech talent shortage shows few signs of abating. To attract this critical segment, it’s important to understand what they want (hint: it’s not just compensation).

14/04/2023

New research suggests “green exercise” has benefits including mental clarity and motivation.

Take exercise outside to nature if you want greater benefits, including mental clarity and motivation, new research into "green exercise" suggests.

13/04/2023

The key to resilience is to recharge adequately with good quality sleep.

After working hard for long hours and toughing it out, we at least expect success. However, more often than not, at the end of the day we are exhausted and still have a long list of tasks to complete. Why does this happen? According to the authors, work...

13/04/2023

The key to resilience is renewal…

How a night of poor sleep can affect your next day at work – and 4 ways to function better

Sleep is important for higher-level cognitive skills that we use to control our thoughts and behaviour. Here are 4 tips for getting by after bad sleep.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/04/how-a-night-of-poor-sleep-can-affect-your-next-day-at-work-and-four-ways-to-function-better?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social_scheduler&utm_term=Future+of+Work&utm_content=13%2F04%2F2023+04%3A00

12/04/2023

Know your numbers…

Do you often wonder what your blood pressure numbers mean? Knowing how to decipher your reading is important. http://ms.spr.ly/6188gH7hi

11/04/2023

Exercise boosts your mood, whether you’re healthy, clinically depressed or chronically ill.

Movement heals.

Depression can make you sedentary, and being sedentary—watching TV, driving, using a computer—can make you depressed, yet movement heals.

Exercise increases blood flow to the brain, boosts neurogenesis, releases endorphins and BDNF—it’s basically your body’s very own antidepressant.

It may be the last thing you feel like doing, but it should be the first thing you schedule in your day.

Long-term, prospective studies show that the more you move, the less likely you are to be depressed (Teychenne, 2008) or to develop burnout (Lindwall, 2014).

Overall, the best scientific evidence proves that exercise boosts your mood whether you’re healthy, clinically depressed, or chronically ill. In one randomized trial in 946 depressed outpatients, exercise outperformed the usual care for depression (Hallgren, 2015).

When it comes to prevention, physically active people have a 45 percent lower chance of developing depression.

What works in terms of exercise?

▪Moderate exercise seems to be best—such as walking on a treadmill or outdoors—at about 64 to 76 percent of maximal heart rate for thirty minutes. (Maximal heart rate is 220 beats per minute minus your age.)
▪BDNF seems to rise the most in response to exercise in women who are not currently taking antidepressant medications and those who have greater pre-exercise depression.
▪Another study in women only shows that exercise of any intensity helps with a depressed mood.
▪For new moms, light- to moderate-intensity aerobic exercise improves mild to moderate depressive symptoms.
▪The optimal frequency isn’t as well defined, but five days per week is recommended.

👉Invest now: high levels of physical activity in middle age predict a lower chance of depression twenty-five years later.

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07/04/2023

Stay healthy and supple by adding these basic movements to your daily routine

Are you sitting comfortably? Well, get up! Stay healthy and supple by adding these basic movements to your daily routine

07/04/2023

Work getting to you? Beware these signs of burnout.

23/03/2023

New observational data suggests even relatively small changes in cardiorespiratory fitness are associated with "considerable" impact on clinical symptoms and mortality risk among individuals with and without cardiovascular disease.

Small changes in cardiorespiratory fitness may have a big impact on health and mortality risk among individuals with and without cardiovascular disease, new data suggest.

22/03/2023

Research has shown that biological aging arises from a complex mix of genetic traits influenced by factors like microbiome composition, environment, social connectedness, lifestyle, stress, sleep, diet, hydration and exercise.

Biological age is a measure of physical and functional health arising from a mix of genetic traits and lifestyle factors like stress, diet and exercise