Newsletter - Autumn 2006
Kayak & Brunch
Social Morning
Spend Sunday morning with friends, kayaking around beautiful middle harbour.
When: Sunday 26 March
Time: 8.15am – 11.30am
Cost: $45 (all inclusive)
Schedule: 8.30am – Paddle from The Spit to Balmoral
Picnic brunch courtesy of The Sand Bar Café at Balmoral
Paddle back to The Spit - 11:30am approx.
Executives
It’s time to change your diet!
With the average corporate employee having a demanding but sedentary job, involving long hours, extensive travel, business lunches and sfrequent networking functions, it has become evident that to strengthen business performance, employee health needs to be improved.
Executives need to smake overall lifestyle changes, in terms of exercise, stress management and diet to address the health risks that lead to heart and lung disease, cancer and diabetes. When attending meetings over meals, there are ways the diet and nutritional content can be greatly improved with only a few minor adjustments. Professor Ron Penny, Medical Director and Advisory board chairman of Good Health Solutions provides several suggestions.
- It is best to order grilled fish or a palm sized steak with salad and a bread roll for lunch, instead of fried fish or steak with a creamy sauce and chips. In regards to dinner, opt for palm sized pieces of lean meat, fish or poultry again, grilled, steamed or stir fried, and include a variety of coloured vegetables. With pasta, go for a small bowl with a tomato based sauce.
- Wherever possible, bring lunch from home: a wholegrain sandwich with lean meat and plenty of salad, which is high in fibre and has a wider range of B vitamins. When buying take away, order something similar, avoiding doner kebabs and laksa, which are very high in fat, which raises cholesterol levels.
- Try a skim milk latte, which is lower in saturated fat and instead of biscuits and doughnuts snack on fruit, which provides vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Also limit alcohol intake as it is high in kilojoules and it increases cholesterol levels.
- Eating smaller meals throughout the day help to maintain energy and concentration levels and prevent overeating at main meals.
Source: Heartwise Living Spring ‘05
Welcome
We would love to welcome our recent new clients - Erica, Lauren, Pascale, Emily, Sue, Susan, Fiona, Scott, Michael, Louise, Polly, Penny, Kathryn, Rhellene, Angela, Samantha, Sharon and Kim. Congratulations on making the decision to optimise your health and wellbeing. All the best for making this year the one that truly changes your life!
Thank-you
A special thank you to Enid, Sarah, Kate, Jan & Katherine for referring your friends to us this month.
Diary Dates
Sun March 26 – Kayak and Brunch
Sun May 14 – Mothers' Day Fun Run/Walk and Brunch
Wed 26 July to Wed 2 Aug – Vanuatu Round Island Relay
& Holiday
Recipe
Pear & Feta Salad
¾ cup pecan nuts
½ clove garlic
1 teaspoon salt
1 lemon, zest grated and juiced
¼ cup macadamia nut oil
1 cut water
250g baby spinach leaves
1 punnet cherry tomatoes, halved
3 pears
100g reduced fat feta cheese, crumbled
Directions: Place nuts, garlic, salt, lemon zest and macadamia nut oil in a food processor. Process to form a paste.
Add water to the nut paste until a sauce forms.
In a salad bowl, place the spinach leaves, tomato and lemon juice, and toss.
Add sliced pears. Pour nut sauce over the salad and serve topped with crumbled feta.
Jump STAR - Cathie
“Jump Start is a very friendly, non pressure environment to exercise in, but also hard work and rewarding. The trainers are all great and always have a positive outlook…..while pushing you that bit further.”
If you would like to be inspired further from Cathie’s story, click here »
Pears
By Emma Blakely
Pears are a delicious fruit that are related to the apple and the quince, and were once referred to as the ‘gift of the gods’. Pears are packed not only with flavour but are a good source of dietary fibre, which helps keep the digestive system regular and healthy. They are also a source of vitamin C and copper, which help to protect our bodies from damage caused by
free radicals.
Pears are in season from April through to December. Purchase well-shaped, firm pears with undamaged skin. Pears ripen after picking and should be stored at room temperature until their skin begins to change colour. Once ripe, store pears in the refrigerator and use as soon as possible. Since their skin provides some of the fibre, it is best not to peel the fruit. Enjoy pears between meals as a satisfying, nutritious snack. Or try the pear and feta salad below, perfect as a light lunch or as an accompaniment at your next barbeque.
A Moment with ........ Heidi Dening
What was your childhood ambition? To win Wimbledon What do you love most about your job? I love it most when I see clients who haven’t known each other before they came to Jump Start, get together for a coffee (with skim milk of course), or organise to meet on the weekend for a walk together. The building of friendships in this great community is what makes me smile. If you weren’t a Personal Trainer, what would you be? A photographer for National Geographic What job have you had in the past that is very different to what you do now? At College I used to test spencers for the CSIRO in a humidity crib! |
What is the strangest thing you have ever
had to do at work? A client and I made a
bet that when he finally could jog up the
Cremorne Point hill all the way, I would
go into McDonalds and eat whatever he
bought me! Funnily enough, the day he Apart from keeping fit, what are your Name 2 people, dead or alive, that you
would invite to a dinner party and why? Nelson Mandela and Brad Pitt – 2 What is your ideal holiday location? Any tropical island |
 What is your favourite movie? Grease Who do you find inspiring? Jump Start |