Learn about the current situation and the costs and consequences of not moving – not just as a financial cost but human cost.
Our research has shown that Bluearth not only addresses the physical health of children, but also improves self awareness, focus, self esteem and resilience.
Mike Brady is best known as singer/songwriter behind the unofficial Australian Rules football anthem ‘Up There Cazaly’, the biggest selling local single of its time. In addition to his achievements in the entertainment industry he has enjoyed a successful career in advertising and is one of Australia’s foremost jingle writers.
Mike is also an experienced director. In addition to his work with Bluearth, he currently serves on the boards of the Prostate Cancer Council and Tourism Victoria, and was a long-serving board member of Variety. He is an Australia Day Life Ambassador and in 2013 was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to the community.
“It’s great to see Mike receiving the recognition he deserves for his musical and business career, and for his tireless community work,” said Bluearth CEO, Wendy Gillett.
One third of all chronic diseases are preventable and can be traced to four lifestyle risk factors: alcohol and tobacco use, physical activity and poor nutrition. While treating chronic disease takes up half of the overall health budget, we only spend 1.5% of the budget preventing it. The Preventative Health: how much does Australia spend and is it enough? report released today highlights that Australia is ranked 16 out of 31 OECD countries for spending on preventative health, but this is not the reason we should lift our spending. As a nation, we need to spend more on preventative health based on the evidence that shows interventions work.
Our declining levels of physical activity and increasing levels of time spent sedentary are impacting at every level: economically, environmentally, physically, socially and emotionally. While changes need to be made at all levels of government, we can start by making small changes to our own lives to move more and sit less each day. It begins with our own choices and reflecting on how we feel when we break up our sitting time and move more.
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Bluearth Foundation has opened applications for its 2017 scholarships to Perth-based Aboriginal women.
The two scholarships on offer are a partnership with the WA Department of Sport and Recreation and Yok Djakoorliny, a health and wellbeing group for Noongar and other Aboriginal women and their friends.
The 2016 Active Healthy Kids Australia Report Card has again shown that Aussie kids are some of the least active in the world, receiving a D minus for physical activity and sedentary behaviour. This is an urgent wakeup call that must be heeded by us all: government, educators, policy makers, community organisations, sports and parents.
The chronic diseases linked to physical inactivity can impact on our overall life expectancy. Unless we make a commitment to move more, we may be shortening our lives, and our children’s lives.
