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Everything you need to know before you buy a travel insurance policy!

Travel insurance policies are designed to cover a range of misfortunes when you travel. While the specifics of each policy is different, they usually cover a range of things from cancellation costs, emergency medical assistance, theft, and even vehicle hi... Read >

HBF gives West Australians a new reason to run

The new event, on Sunday 23 May 2010, is expected to attract thousands of runners and walkers with participants invited to ‘choose their reason' for pulling on their running shoes. HBF yesterday took the wraps off a new event in Perth's sporting and com... Read >

Social networking leads to burglary risk

HBF has issued a warning to users of social media websites, reminding them that uploading details about their holiday plans could put their home at risk of burglary. Home owners who advertise they are on holidays via networking sites such as My Space,... Read >

The Need for Sleep

When every night is becoming a sleepless night, it could be time to seek advice. My daughter rang the other morning to say she was only managing to stay awake because of the strings holding her eyes open - she'd had a ‘horror' night with young childr... Read >

Understanding Alzheimers

Although a cure for Alzheimer's is still some way off, recent research is bringing medical science closer to understanding this tragic disease. The brain chemical L Dopa was first synthesised in 1911 and, at first, was thought to be an inactive substan... Read >

Stress Less

Most of us feel a degree of stress at some time... it is, after all, the body's natural alarm system. But chronic stress can become a serious, long-term cycle that needs to be broken. "I don't know what's right and what's real anymore, I don't know how... Read >

Grief and loss

One of the facts of life about growing older is that you seem to go to more funerals! I attended one last week and as we processed through the cemetery, we walked past hundreds of headstones with names and dates, each briefly recording the life of someone... Read >

Walking Groups

Many of our current health and lifestyle problems have arisen from the fact that we eat too much and exercise too little; in other words too much energy in and too little energy out. Hence we have: • World record high levels of obesity • Rising ... Read >

Garden Hazards

I love this time of year because I enjoy getting out in the garden. Mind you, other things in the garden appear to like this time of year too - besides the weeds!! We've got snails attacking seedlings and cabbage butterfly laying eggs in my lettuce pa... Read >