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| Wednesday, 08 June 2011 03:46 |
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Another fundraising event!!
On Sunday 3rd July I will be hosting a family fun day at Team Trampoline 239 The Parade, Norwood (cnr Portrush Rd and The Parade) From 1- 4pm come and have a jump on the competition grade equipment with expert supervision and tips from Brian at Team Trampoline. Kids and adults can all have a turn - upto 30 people in the room at once. Charlie will be busy on the sausage sizzle, and we will have soft drinks and gourmet cupcakes available for sale to keep your energy levels up! Only $5 entry, must wear clean socks to jump. Please contact me via this page if you would like to come along - this will help us with catering. All proceeds will go to the Jodi Lee Foundation, contributing towards my $10 000 target to raise awareness for bowel cancer screening. My marathon training is on track, still working mainly on leg speed and about to start the longer km's to build further endurance. 150 days to go as of today!!
For more information on Team Trampoline, please call Brian on 0458 426 533
We had a fantastic day today at Team Trampoline - over 50 kids jumped through the afternoon, Charlie cooked up a storm on the sausage sizzle which was largely donated by Bakers Delight, Walkerville Meat Store, and Foodland Kensington Park - a big thank you to those businesses for their support!!! I will try to load some pictures up from the afternoon :-)
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The Cancer Council came out this week and announced that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption, and that alcohol should be considered to be as carcinogenic as smoking and asbestos are. As well as being highly associated with throat and mouth cancers, it is now found to correlate highly with breast and bowel cancers. Perhaps it should not be so surprising that a substance that can so alter mood and ability, even at very mild levels should turn out to be in fact, not good for us.
This story, an editorial from the British Journal of Sports Medicine earlier this year has some amazing targets - it ties in with our look at sitting and health, and is about developing healthcare systems that support exercise - recognise it as being as vital a measure of our health as is blood sugar levels or blood pressure. It recommends 150 minutes of physical activity per week for adults as a minimum. 30 mins on 5 days. For children, it is 420 mins / week - 60 minutes every day. How close are you?
This is another article on inactivity / obesity and health from Sports Medicine Australia, highlighting the link between an inactive childhood and a lifetime of battling depression. It is food for thought (!) these days where there seems to be much paranoia about safety of children away from their parents watchful eyes, and therefore a tendency to want to keep them closely under watch instead of encouraging more activity and indeed risk taking behaviours. The ability to judge situations for risk and to be able to take appropriate risks builds self esteem and resilience. Not much to do with bowel cancer awareness, but close to my heart as well.
Another article on sitting
This one is in really simple terms - if you walk 30 mins (as recommended) and sleep 8 hours, most of us still have 15.5 hours per day not moving. You cannot sit all day behind a screen, then drive your car and sit and watch tv with out it being bad for you. A good read.