What is diabetes?

Diabetes is a serious condition. It is complex and can affect all parts of the body, requiring ongoing management. It is a chronic condition where your body struggles to convert food into energy properly.

In people with diabetes, the body struggles to produce and use enough insulin to turn glucose into energy and reduce its levels in our blood.

What is IBS?

Some medical conditions are very hard to live with - an experience that’s often made worse because people misunderstood or minimise them. People equate a migraine with a bad headache, think flu is just a bad cold, or believe irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) means a bit of a tummy ache.

Those living with IBS tell a different story - though sometimes they don’t tell it all because they feel too embarrassed.

The Importance of Air Quality in the Home

Lungs work all day and night, taking in about 20,000 breaths every 24 hours. So, it’s not surprising that air quality influences health. And, given that we spend large amounts of time indoors, it’s worth doing everything possible to improve the quality of indoor air. That will help to reduce chronic conditions like asthma and allergies and also helps to reduce the spread of COVID-19.


Here’s how to improve indoor air quality at home.

Seasonal Asthma

Seasonal asthma involves two conditions – allergies and asthma – overlapping to create the worst of both worlds.

Seasonal asthma can be triggered by allergies to pollen, mould, mildew or the weather. Managing it well involves understanding which particular allergens are a problem and reducing exposure to them. It also involves creating a treatment plan for the allergies and an asthma action plan to manage the asthma symptoms. Here’s what’s involved.