aspects of a healthy lifestyle

Woolworths-owned HealthyLife launches telehealth service with Global Health

April 13, 2023

Supermarket giant Woolworths’ health and wellness subsidiary HealthyLife has started offering same-day telehealth services.

It has tapped a third-party virtual platform provider, ASX-listed Global Health, to help connect patients with GPs, dietitians, and nutritionists who can provide health consultations, medical certificates, e-scripts and referrals.

WHY IT MATTERS

According to HealthyLife, there has been a growing demand for healthcare advice for weight management, gut health conditions and chronic pain. However, this may seem inaccessible to some given that only 6% of Australian adults are consulting with specialists on natural or alternative medicine, a recent study revealed.

“That’s why we are providing virtual and cost-effective consultations with dietitians and nutritionists whose services are not always as accessible, particularly for those living in rural areas or facing budget pressures,” said Sarah Gray, HealthyLife general manager for Health & Nutrition.

The Gut Health Dietitian, a team of dietitians offering virtual consultations, have also been

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Our post-pandemic social lives in data

February 18, 2023

There’s more to a healthy life than workouts and a balanced diet, and that’s something called friends.

Friendships are not just fun and comforting, they’re also fundamental to our wellbeing. Researchers have actually found that the health risks of prolonged loneliness can be as toxic as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

Friendships should be a priority in our lives, but recent data suggests we have fewer close friendships than we once did.

In the United States, for example, the share of people saying they have no close friends at all went up from 3 per cent in 1990 to 12 per cent in 2021, according to surveys by Gallup and the Survey Center on American Life.

Similarly, the number of respondents said they could count 10 people or more as their close friends went down from 33 per cent in 1990 to 13 per cent in 2021.

Interestingly, the

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