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1.    What is the Ceres Fair Food business? 2.    Ceres supporting Victorian organic farmers where the food ends up in one thousand households using Food Hosts. 3.    Why Coles and Woolworths cant compete with the local CoOp? 4.    What is Organic food? 5.    What steps do farmers need to take to ensure they are certified organic?  6.    What is Fair Foods carbon credit offsets in Cambodia? 7.    Why should people eat organic food? 8.    How does Fair Food benefit asylum seekers coming into Australia? 9.    Three take home messages from this podcast 10. For more information, check – http://www.ceresfairfood.org.au The post BC 08: Chris Ennis on CERES FAIR FOOD Organic Food appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Welcome to our health expert – Dr Stephen McKenzie PhD Psychologist and Mindfulness expert, Author of two books: 1) “Mindfulness for Life” (with Dr Craig Hassed) and 2) “Mindfulness at Work” What is Mindfulness? The importance of being of being aware and accepting of our awareness Heartfulness = Mindfulness Meditation is formalized mindfulness Vipassana meditation – “To see things as they really are” Our culture forces us to be so busy doing ‘Stress’ …we need time to be ‘Present’ Mindfulness is not something you learn, it’s something you remember Health advantages of mindfulness Body Scan Meditation – a live example of mindfulness but DO NOT PERFORM THIS WHILE DRIVING Top 3 mindfulness take home tips The post BC 07: Dr Stephen McKenzie On Mindfulness appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Natural management of chronic pain including food, mindfulness, exercise and most importantly self management. Dealing, twice, in adolescence with surgery and scoliosis. The power of one sentence that can change your life. The multi disciplinary management needed for the best results in a chronic pain management Stop catastrophising. Move to mindfulness and pacing. The concept of minimal pain movement capabilities. The dangers of fear avoidance and withdrawal behavior You can have pain without suffering Respond to pain, don’t react to it. Mandy’s day to day routine to manage her chronic pain.1 1.The health investment required to overcome chronic pain. 12.Success with chronic pain is with small steps, not one big movement. 13.Take Home Pearls The post BC 06: Mandy Mecuri on Recovery from Chronic Pain appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

1. Paul Bergamo and Anthony Coxon welcome Dr Marc Pick to the 7th Annual AAFN Symposium, in Sydney, Australia 2. Dr Pick explains his life before chiropractic 3. Non-pharmaceutical approaches to depression. 4. Tonic eye movements and the sedentary posture 5. The relationship of the spinal adjustment and the cerebellum 6. Efferent copy and feed forward mechanisms with the cerebellum 7. The environment and genetics 8. Semi-circular canals and scoliosis 9. The Chiropractic ‘water-bed’ adjusting table 10. Where is chiropractic today and what does chiropractic have to do now to ensure longevity in the future? 11. Spinal subluxation 12. One of the secrets to Dr Picks career success 13. A different way to Practice Build 14. The Pearl to enhance your Balance The post BC 05 : Dr Marc Pick Live at 7th Annual AAFN Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia,2015 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What defines a first world problem? Lisa – “I do not use my disability as an excuse” Lisa – “Do what you can with what you have” Recovery Goals- relearning to eat, stand and walk after being in intensive care Value of your family when your life is on the line Lisa is a Synapse Ambassador. Synapse strives to reconnect the lives of those most at risk within our community, affected by a Brain Disorder. What is Acquired Brain Injury? What is the invisible disability? Are you ready for BANGONABEANIE 2015? BANGONABEANIE is the National campaign for Brain Injury Awareness Week (17 – 23 August 2015) and buying just one beanie will show the 1 in 12 Australians with a Brain Injury they are not alone Lisa is an author of two books on body image with Wombat Publishers: “Media Muscle” and “Does this bum look big in this ad?” Real gratitude – what it means? Lisa – “True Inspiration is self inspiration – drawing on your own resources” Visualisation in Rehabilitation Three take home gems – Celebrate the small stuff Focus on

Health Expert Biography: Dr Tania Ash is the founder and medical director of Vitality Hub clinics in Prahran and Malvern. A Melbourne University medicine graduate, she has 21 years of clinical experience, including 11 years as an Integrative Medical Specialist, and a Fellow of A5M (Australasian Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine). One of her passions is evaluating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and she now specializes in treating patients acutely unwell from mould and Lyme disease. Key Covering points of this Podcast: What are Biotoxins? How does Mould lead to disease? What is Lyme Disease? Why is Fibromyalgia a red flag for biotoxin illness? The problem of water damaged building What is an Integrative Medical Doctor? Mould assessment by a Microbiologist and Building Biologists Adrenal Fatigue What makes Dr Tania Ash Tic(k)? Three key Practical Take Home Tips The post BC 03: Dr Tania Ash (Integrative GP) – Is your home making you sick? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this podcast, BACKchat interviews Dr Margaret Beavis. Margaret is a Melbourne General Practitioner of 25 years experience, a senior examiner with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and teaches in the Medical Faculty at Melbourne University. She has recently completed a Masters in Public Health at Deakin University and published late last year, her research on the Health and Economic Benefits of Physical Activity in Melbourne Commuters, in the Health Promotion Journal of Australia. Margaret’s research shows how one simple lifestyle changes can: Help overcome mild to moderate hypertension and depression, which in some cases, can be used instead of an anti hypertensive or anti depressant. Help reduce heart attacks, depression and breast cancer by 20%. Help reduce diabetes, stroke and bowel cancer by 30%. Help can save up to 272 lives per year. Help can save up to $365 million per year. Listen to Dr Margaret Beavis as she explains how this simple exercise prescription can help achieve all of

During our first podcast, we interviewed one of Australia’s leading authorities in Functional Neurology – Dr Paul Noone.Here Paul discusses one of the five pillars of health – YOUR NEUROLOGY – and how to be your best.The 1990’s was designated the “Decade of the Brain” to enhance public awareness of the benefits to be derived from brain research.The nervous system is fundamental to our health and  performance as it regulates and controls every voluntary and involuntary action of the body.Dr Noone discusses with us , in our inaugural BACKchat podcast, the emerging field of brain health and how we can optimize our neurology.He provides a picture for us of how currently Functional Neurology is in Australia , and what the future may hold.Dr Noone walks us through the term neuroplasticity and what a functional neurology consultation will look like in twenty years time.This revolutionary and visionary view of neurology is both fascinating and inspiring to those of us striving to be the best we can be! The post BC