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Reduce Carbon Footprint

Lately, not a day goes by without Climate Change being front and centre in the media and it never seems to be good news.  I […]

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International Women’s Day

There are many important and diverse dates in March to recognise and celebrate, from Labor Day and St Patrick’s Day to World Hearing Day and […]

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Love & Loss

As February rolls by and Cupid dusts off his bow and arrow, one age-old question surfaces: is it better to have loved and lost than […]

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Hearing Health

The start of a new year is always a good time to take a closer look at our overall health and make a commitment to […]

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The Year That Was

Can you believe it’s January already? 2022 seems to have flown past even quicker than the last. Before we race headlong into 2023, I thought […]

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Importance of Hobbies for over 50s

Are you living life at a cracking pace? Like me, do you find there never seems to be enough hours in the day to accomplish […]

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My Brush with Royalty

I will always remember where I was when I heard the sad news of the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. At 96 years […]

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How to be Positive

I’ve been lucky enough to not only meet many of my childhood idols and spend one-on-one time with them during media interviews but there have […]

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What I do when I get the Flu

Since international travel opened up again, the cases of influenza or ‘the flu’ as we commonly call it has escalated this winter, after record low […]

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How I Spend My Energy

Whether we’re moving or asleep our body uses energy. According to Healthinfo.com.au, the human body converts the food we consume into energy. The amount of […]

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My Day on a Plate

I always know when winter is just around the corner when all the yummy summer fruits like cherries, red dragon fruit and mangoes disappear from […]

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Seasonal Affective Disorder

Do you feel gloomy on a cloudy day and glum during the winter months? I know I can. Luckily, for some of us our ‘winter […]

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International Women’s Day

This year’s International Women’s Day (8th March) is as important and as relevant now as it was when it was first commemorated in New York […]

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‘Being Happy’ – Susie Elelman

This article centres on what makes me happy, how I stay happy and what I do to smile. As happiness is such a subjective emotion, […]

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2021 a Year in Review, From My Eyes

There is something about a New Year that makes me feel like I can make a fresh start, regardless of what sort of year I […]

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Positive Self-Talk

Be careful how you talk to yourself because you are listening   – Lisa M Hayes, US Author and Relationship Coach Why do I automatically think […]

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My Favourite Veggies

I feel very fortunate to have always loved eating vegetables, even brussels sprouts and I believe having European parents certainly helped. While Mum never professed […]

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Walking – Susie Elelman

Walking is the one exercise we’ve all been allowed and encouraged to do throughout this pandemic, no matter whether you live in an area that’s […]

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Positive Thinking. Adult Learners’ week.

Spring might have sprung but that doesn’t mean some of us aren’t still thinking bleak thoughts as a result of Covid. Whether you’re living directly […]

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The Dentist

While we all might want a perfect pearly-white toothy smile, the thought of visiting a dentist can grip many of us with intense fear. I […]

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Dry July

July has never been my favourite month; it’s the coldest time of the year and means we’ve already slid into the second half of 2021. […]

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Detox from Devices

If you don’t think you’ve become dependent on your smart devices then do what I accidently did recently and leave your mobile phone at home. […]

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My exercise tips for a better life

Whether you’re looking at life through a weight-loss prism or you simply want to stay fit and keep your mind and body at its healthiest, […]

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Setting goals for the New Year

You can do anything if you set goals. You just have to push yourself ~RJ Mitte disabled US actor If you’re driving to a new […]

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The social aspect of the Christmas break and how it may differ this year due to COVID

Who would have thought this time last year that 2020 would turn out the way it has? Many people I speak with are excited about […]

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My favourite recipes, juices and foods perfect for summer

There are many more varieties of yummy seasonal fresh fruits and vegetables to choose from this month and the warmer weather always makes me want […]

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How the Experts Recommend Spotting a Mental Health Issue, and How to Get Back on Track, By Susie Elelman

There has never been a time in my living memory when our mental health has had so much focus and attention and quite rightly so. […]

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The Best Exercises and Foods for Brain Health, by Susie Elelman

The most powerful tool you have to change your brain and health is your fork – Dr Mark Hyman We can‘t go out and say, […]

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Sugar, by Susie Elelman

The love of money might be considered the root of all evil but the excessive amount of sugar we consume, sometimes unintentionally, is proving to […]

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Seeing is Believing by Susie Elelman

The eyes are the mirror of the soul This modified proverb is first credited to Cicero, a Roman philosopher (106-43 B.C.), where it’s believed that […]

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Love

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye                     – H. Jackson Brown Jnr. The heart has always been the symbol of love. Love […]

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Susie Elelman: How I am coping amid the COVID-19 pandemic

When the going gets tough, the tough get going – I’m sure when Joseph Kennedy, father of US President John F Kennedy, coined that proverb […]

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Unwinding, with Susie Elelman

Do you find it hard to switch off when you finish work? Are you exhausted trying to juggle the household and keep everyone in the […]

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Celebrating Women – My Idols and Why, by Susie Elelman

We all know women should be venerated every day but like Mothers’ Day, a particularly special day each year has been set aside in deference […]

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How I Stay Young; Age Is Just A Number

Age is simply a chronological indication of how long you’ve been on earth; it has nothing to do with how young you actually feel. Age […]

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My Beauty Regime, by Susie Elelman

Ern Westmore, the Dean of Hollywood make-up for over forty years often said, ‘We spend 24 hours a day growing old, why not take 5 […]

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How to Handle Negative People, Criticism and Bad Days

I don’t know anyone who likes being on the receiving end of personal criticism and we all want to steer clear of negative people but […]

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Susie’s Top 6 Ways to Release Anger, Without Committing Murder

I hate that feeling when anger wells up from deep down inside me, then surges through my body and explodes in my brain. What I […]

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Be Comfortable with Your Tears, It’s Okay to Cry

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone, is the famous opening line of the poem Solitude by US author and […]

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Susie Elelman Sets Us Straight Regarding Unrealistic Expectations

It’s easy to get swept up in a movie and to wish your life replicated what was happening on the screen but in reality that […]

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The Power of Positive Thinking, by Susie Elelman

Are you inclined to see the glass as half full or half empty? There are two ways we can mentally view any adverse situation and […]

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You Can’t Keep A Good Woman Down

One of my favourite quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt is, ‘A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong she is until you […]

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Success, Fame and Beauty. From Miss Australia to George Clooney, Susie Walks Us Through How She Went from A Teaching Student, To Over Four Decades in Media.

This year marks my 45th year in media and I often get asked how did I get my start? I guess you could say I […]

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Are You Too Busy to Put Yourself First? Susie Elelman Has Given Us Her Healthy Habits, Whilst Living A Busy Lifestyle

We all have the best of intentions to fuel our bodies with the healthiest foods we can and exercise regularly but time is often our […]

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Ways to improve your sleep and the importance of a good night’s sleep

Why then do so many of us continually ‘burn the candle at both ends’ and sacrifice our precious sleep as a result?

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Susie’s Brain Health tips

Studies have shown that by maintaining good basic health habits, like keeping active, getting enough sleep, eating a balanced diet and limiting our intake of alcohol and bad fats, we can help protect our brain’s decline and help reduce the risk of dementia.

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Are you travelling during the festive season? Jet lag tips!

Luckily there aren’t too many downsides to long distance air travel but the ones that are can certainly be punishing. Screaming babies notwithstanding, jet lag […]

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Ditch the Winter Funk and Spring into Summer, with Susie Elelman

October is the perfect month to spring us into action to look and feel our best by summer. Winter might seem like a distant memory […]

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Handle Your Stress, Declutter Your Mind and Spring Clean Your Life Now.

This is a wonderful time of year when the bone chilling days of winter are finally behind us and replaced with warm sunny days filled with the smell of fragrant flowers in bloom and freshly cut grass.

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Keep Moving by Susie Elelman

On average Australians sit for around 10 hours a day, yet a variety of major international research studies in recent years have produced compelling evidence that sitting for more than 4 hours each day leads to changes in the body.

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What Women Over 50 Want, By Susie Elelman

Thinking long and hard about the question of what women over 50 want, I’m not sure it’s that much different to what any woman or man wants at any age.

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Zen; Inner Peace, by Susie Elelman

I can’t think of anyone who wouldn’t want to achieve inner peace but it sometimes feels impossible to attain when life’s everyday stresses start negatively impacting on our peace of mind.

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Gut Health by Susie Elelman

According to Neuroscientist Professor Richard E Cytowic MD, our stomach is an ecosystem comprising some 100 million neurons, more than our spinal cord.

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Tip Top Condition

We’d all love to be in Tip Top Condition but it’s so easy for life to get in the way and shift our focus. A great technique to get motivated and help us stick with it is to set ourselves a target.

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Life After Menopause

For generations menopause was ‘secret women’s business’. Our mothers and grandmothers were never encouraged and often not game to talk about it, let alone admit they were going through it.

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I Don’t Have Time to Be Tired.

When I opened my eyes, even though I’d been asleep for a while, I didn’t realise I’d fallen asleep at all. What made it even more alarming was this occurred in the middle of the day.

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The Joys of Ageing

A friend of mine, who’s my age, recently said that the things he could do all night when he was younger can now take him all night to do. I’m grateful to be in very good health and can’t image how difficult it would be to battle a chronic illness while ageing.

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Susie’s Tips for a Stress-free Christmas

It can be a very stressful time for a variety of reasons and we can often put a lot of undue and sometimes unnecessary pressure on ourselves.

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Susie’s Thoughts on Incontinence

More than 70 per cent of incontinence sufferers are women and many experience problems during pregnancy, after childbirth and menopause. Obesity, diabetes and even heart conditions can be contributing factors.

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Susie’s thoughts

I’ve always advocated the need for women to establish a sisterhood, the female equivalent to ‘The Boys’ Club’ and use that Girl Power to help and support each other especially in business.

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My Experience Through Menopause – Susie Elelman – AMC Ambassador

I wish the Australian Menopause Centre was around to help me back then. It all started when my periods stopped at around 47 years of age and seemed to continue on and off for another ten years or more.

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Susie’s Tips to Staying Healthy Through Winter

While the modern-day metric conversion of; ‘A gram of prevention is worth a kilo of cure’, doesn’t quite have the same ring to it; the sentiment is definitely still the same. The main reason I try and live by this saying is because I’m allergic to most antibiotics so it’s imperative for me to fortify my immune system leading up to winter

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Susie’s Tips on Happiness

I thought I’d start by asking; Can we measure how happy we really are? According to a mate of mine, well-respected psychiatrist Dr Anthony Durrell, we can.

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Susie’s Tips for Pain Relief

Pain is Nature’s way of telling you something is wrong and while blocking the symptoms with pain killers might be a quick fix, it doesn’t always get to the root cause.

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Susie’s Top Tips to Help You Fall Asleep

I love my sleep but I must confess I used to take it very much for granted. That was until I started doing midnight to dawn talkback radio on 2GB and affiliated networks back in the mid-1990s.

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Weight loss Tips from Susie Elelman

I’d like to share with you some of the lifestyle changes I’ve applied and I hope they help you achieve the size and shape you’d like to be.

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Susie Elelman’s Hot Travel Tips

One of my favourite pastimes is travelling. I have been lucky enough to tour quite extensively throughout my lifetime but there are still lots more places on my bucket list I want to see.

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Manage Stress with Susie Elelman

For years many believed and some still do that there is no such thing as Stress. In fact, back when I was a regular on TV’s Beauty & the Beast, my fellow panellists and I would often debate long and hard with ‘Beast’ Stan Zemanek about it.

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  • Nov 14, 2016
  • Recipes
  • Susie Elelman
Susie’s Healthy Snack Alternative – Kale and Kalette Chips

When I feel like something savoury, instead of eating high-fat potato chips or nuts, or loading up on high GI carbs, like rice crackers, I’ve found a healthy alternative – home-made kale or kalette chips.

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