In order to balance fitness and health and prevent functional illness, your body needs to generate large amounts of energy. When this doesn’t happen, you will get a symptom – FATIGUE. This is one of the most common complaints I hear. The fatigue may be physical or mental or both. Over time, fatigue will make you unwell. If you feel that physically you are struggling to get through the day and mentally that clear thinking and decision making are becoming more difficult, then it is up to you to change that and make it better. I can help with that.
When you’re constantly tired the first thing you have to do is find out why, and that means learning not only where your energy comes from, but how to maximise its production.
Energy of course comes from the food you eat – for most people this means a combination of proteins, fats and carbohydrates. What you have to learn is what works best for you. Keep in mind that FATS can provide you with more than twice the energy you get from either carbohydrates or protein. It is clear that to maximise your energy levels and stop the fatigue, you must reprogram your body to BURN FAT. Most people who are tired, rely on too much carbohydrate and sugar (often as much as 80 – 90%). This means that fat, since it is not burnt, is stored in and on the body, resulting in weight gain, obesity and further health problems – blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, heart problems.
Fix the fatigue factor as soon as you can. Learn to maximise body energy. You’ll start to really like the way you feel and look.
I’m looking forward to hearing from you.

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Dr John Pirie
Chiropractor &
Applied Kinesiologist
19 Coral Street, Maleny
Phone 5435 2155

It’s a national phenomenon. Following last year’s rising values, a combination of factors has snuffed out growth. One interest rate rise too many, a faltering share market, petrol prices at hideous levels and a media obsessed with screaming negatives has punctured the nation’s bubble of confidence.

The speed of the turnaround in public sentiment has surprised many. But nothing extracts the heat from a real estate market like a loss of confidence. Suddenly everyone is reading about downturn and job losses. Headline-hungry analysts have made silly predictions about prices falling 10% or 20%, while others with a simplistic mindset have reasoned that we’ll crumble because the US has.

The great thing about making loud predictions is that journalists never go back and check the accuracy of what was forecast a year earlier. So someone thirsty for publicity can say something outlandish and get away with it. In 2005, when the market last slowed, the talking ego from Aussie Home Loans John Symond predicted prices would plummet. What followed was a steady rise in values, which peaked in 2007. But media still publishes every silly thing he says. The more outrageous the better.

I’m reassured by the number of commentators who have published positive analysis about the economy and property market. In number and credibility they outweigh the noisy minority who forecast gloom. But readers won’t know about them because media has largely ignored their reports.

The key thing to remember is that real estate is long-term. We’re now in the stalemate period between boom and not-boom, when sellers are stubborn and buyers have their arms folded. But what’s happening right now is irrelevant.

To put that in a local context, Range agents confirm we’re in a slow period. They say sensibly-priced properties will sell but people holding out for a “cream on the top” price will wait a long time. “We are making sales but we have to work for it,” says Montville agent Roger Loughnan, while Maleny agent Pia Buick says: “There are good buyers around, but they do have the luxury of time.”

Nervous owners should remember that the track record of Range real estate is as solid as anywhere in the country. In the five years between 2002 and 2007, house values across the Blackall Range rose an average of 14% a year. Land prices averaged growth of 16% a year.

According to median price data from PRDnationwide Research, the best performer over five years has been Mapleton (average growth of 18% a year). At the bottom of the Range, Beerwah and Landsborough have also had big growth.

In Maleny, which accounted for half the sales on the Range last year, house prices have risen an average 14% a year since 2002 and land values have climbed almost 20% a year.

Across the Range, the typical house now costs around $470,000. Values took a quantum leap from mid-2002 and have been climbing, with a few minor reversals, ever since. These days, says PRDnationwide, most sales fall in the $400,000 to $500,000 bracket.

The growth record is solid over 10 years as well. Australian Property Monitors says Maleny, Montville, Landsborough and Beerwah have all averaged 12% -plus a year in house price growth. Over 10 years that’s exceptional.

The message is that the track record of Range real estate is first rate – and it’s important to remember that amid the current negativity.

Terry Ryder