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Ambassador Matt Golinski
- Eating with the Seasons according to Matt Golinski
- Frozen and tinned veggies: get to know them, they’re aok!
- Matt Golinski’s Rice Paper Rolls with Chicken, Vegetables and 3 Dipping Sauces
- Matt Golinski’s Yoghurt Chicken, Cucumber and Mint Kebabs
- Matt Golinski’s Cauliflower and Chickpea Balls with Beetroot Hommus
- Matt Golinski’s Cheat’s Lasagne
- Matt Golinski’s Dried Apricot, Coconut and Sunflower Seed Balls
- Matt Golinski’s Last-Minute Five-Minute Fried Rice
- Matt Golinski’s Roast Chicken, Pumpkin and Macadamia Salad
- Matt Golinski’s Sweetcorn, Capsicum and Cheese ‘Waffle Jaffles’
Blog
- ‘Get Smart’ About Liver Health This July
- Stay awake for this World Sleep Day—and every day
- 10 simple and healthy lunchbox snacks
- 11 ways to get exercise into your day (even if you’re at home)
- 5 recipes to try in the QCWA Cook at Home challenge
- A fit mind for runners: Five wellbeing rituals to get you to the finish line
- A guide to movement at every age
- Better bones in childhood to last a lifetime
- Boost your mental wellbeing
- Breastfeeding and COVID-19: Your questions answered
- Channeling your inner athlete in the Queensland heat and humidity
- Children’s Bedtime Matters for Healthy Weight
- Cooking with COVID: 10 easy meals when you are low on energy
- Dietary fibre: the unsung health hero
- Don’t drop the ball! How to safely return to play community sport this season
- Eating with the Seasons according to Matt Golinski
- Eight stretches all runners should know
- Food swapping made easy with seasonal winter produce
- From humble to hero, how to make vegetables stand out on your plate.
- Frozen and tinned veggies: get to know them, they’re aok!
- Getting kids excited about healthy food
- Go for H20: why hydration matters when you are on the mend
- Got a little runner in the making? Up their nutrition game to get them to the finish line.
- Healthy eating as we age
- Healthy food for kids on the go
- Helping kids to eat well during COVID-19
- How to avoid the drive-through dash
- How to create a healthier (and happier) remote workplace
- How to create a Healthy Kids Menu for your cafe or restaurant
- How to get kids to eat more veggies (including in the holidays)
- How to level-up your salads
- How to make healthy choices with your takeaway meals
- How to make the most of vegetables
- How to make your food stretch further to save your money and limit your shopping trips
- How to overcome challenges to increasing children’s physical activity
- How to sleep well when you’re feeling stressed
- How to stay healthy when you’re working from home
- How to stop eating when you’re bored
- How to take a proactive approach to wellbeing in uncertain times
- How to take care of your physical and mental health as COVID-19 restrictions ease
- HWQld and COVID-19
- Is sleep THAT important?
- Keeping the health workforce strong in tough times
- Let’s get physical! Being active is medicine for the mind during COVID-19
- Love your liver this World Liver Day—and every day.
- Lunchboxes: keeping it real
- Making simple food swaps for your family (with 9 ideas to get you started)
- Managing your mental health while isolated: What are the signs you may need some help?
- Matt Golinski’s Rice Paper Rolls with Chicken, Vegetables and 3 Dipping Sauces
- Matt Golinski’s Yoghurt Chicken, Cucumber and Mint Kebabs
- Matt Golinski’s Cauliflower and Chickpea Balls with Beetroot Hommus
- Matt Golinski’s Cheat’s Lasagne
- Matt Golinski’s Dried Apricot, Coconut and Sunflower Seed Balls
- Matt Golinski’s Last-Minute Five-Minute Fried Rice
- Matt Golinski’s Roast Chicken, Pumpkin and Macadamia Salad
- Matt Golinski’s Sweetcorn, Capsicum and Cheese ‘Waffle Jaffles’
- Motivation versus routine: which is more effective for moving more?
- No appetite? No problem. Try this game plan to stay nourished
- Pregnancy and COVID-19: Your questions answered
- Preschool FUNdamentals at home: Easy and fun activities to practice basic movement skills at home
- Recipe for success: our programs boosting children’s nutrition
- Remember, wellbeing can be simple. Easy peasy tips from Queenslandher Origin legends
- Sickly sweet: sugar consumption and our health
- Simple ways you can help your child learn to love veggies
- Staying active for you and your baby
- Staying motivated to achieve your goals
- Supporting kids with special dietary needs during COVID-19
- The antidote to body shaming
- The importance of school tuckshops in Queensland
- The medicine of music
- The Power of Zzzs: why sleep is a valuable part of children’s wellbeing
- The truth about training: five myths busted for runners
- Three healthy and tasty meals to drop off to a friend in iso
- Three ways to stay fit and healthy after your run!
- Top 5 Queensland Scenic Walks
- Top tips to boost your activity during COVID-19
- Walking is a super-powered exercise activity, here’s why
- What parents need to know about working from home with your children present
- Working from home? Here’s how to set up your workstation ergonomically
Children
Healthy Eating
- 10 simple and healthy lunchbox snacks
- 5 recipes to try in the QCWA Cook at Home challenge
- Children’s Bedtime Matters for Healthy Weight
- Dietary fibre: the unsung health hero
- Eating with the Seasons according to Matt Golinski
- Food swapping made easy with seasonal winter produce
- From humble to hero, how to make vegetables stand out on your plate.
- Healthy eating as we age
- Healthy food for kids on the go
- Helping kids to eat well during COVID-19
- How to avoid the drive-through dash
- How to create a Healthy Kids Menu for your cafe or restaurant
- How to get kids to eat more veggies (including in the holidays)
- How to level-up your salads
- How to make healthy choices with your takeaway meals
- How to stay healthy when you’re working from home
- How to stop eating when you’re bored
- Lunchboxes: keeping it real
- Making simple food swaps for your family (with 9 ideas to get you started)
- Matt Golinski’s Yoghurt Chicken, Cucumber and Mint Kebabs
- Matt Golinski’s Cauliflower and Chickpea Balls with Beetroot Hommus
- Matt Golinski’s Dried Apricot, Coconut and Sunflower Seed Balls
- Matt Golinski’s Roast Chicken, Pumpkin and Macadamia Salad
- Matt Golinski’s Sweetcorn, Capsicum and Cheese ‘Waffle Jaffles’
- Simple ways you can help your child learn to love veggies
- Supporting kids with special dietary needs during COVID-19
- The importance of school tuckshops in Queensland
Latest News
- 2022 Queensland Healthy Kids Menu Award
- ActiveKIT invests in ballet for people living with arthritis
- Aussies need to be empowered to eat more veggies post-pandemic
- Behavioural science approach for Bundaberg health and wellbeing
- Boosting Bundaberg Through New Alliance
- Bridge to Brisbane boosting our healthy
- Brisbane 2032 Olympics and a health and wellbeing strategy
- Brisbane newcomer gets fit and comfortable in his new city
- Building a healthy Bundaberg
- Bundaberg people encouraged to take charge of health and ‘Do Your Thing’
- Calling for innovative solutions to get more Queenslanders moving
- Celebrating 10 years to Brisbane 2032
- Celebrating 12 months with you
- Celebrating NAIDOC Week: learnings we can all embrace
- Celebrating NAIDOC Week: pick one thing to help expand your knowledge
- Diamond Spirit to help more First Nations girls reach goals through new partnership
- Dolphins and Deadly Choices kick health goals
- Dr Emma Gale, HWQld public health registrar trainee sharing her thoughts on what drives her
- Dr Robyn Littlewood Celebrates First Year as Chief Executive
- Encouraging schools to get gardening with Pick of the Crop
- Evidence-based validation for Pick of the Crop
- Far North Queensland Hub: a stellar and collaborative start
- Far North Queensland Visit
- Free community walks through the bushland at Government House
- Fun run fills Brisbane with a sea of pink!
- Funding program ActiveKIT: getting more Queenslanders moving
- Gemma Hodgetts appointed UQ Adjunct Senior Fellow
- Getting kids excited about veggies
- Governor’s walk promotes improving walkability of our state
- Health and Wellbeing Queensland join Tennis Queensland for Governor’s walk to celebrate International Women’s Day
- Health and Wellbeing Queensland joins Department of Tourism, Innovation and Sport to support the Queensland Murri Carnival
- Health and Wellbeing Queensland joins experts in three-day meeting of the minds on obesity prevention.
- Heather shares a winning mindset ahead of her first running event
- HWQld partners in a national campaign encouraging Australians to rediscover veggies
- HWQld serves up Ipswich flood relief program with Jamie’s Ministry of Food
- Innovative solutions to increase physical activity receive funding boost
- Inspiring visit to Logan Maternity and Child Health Hubs
- International Women’s Day
- Introducing Miss Joy, Garden Granny
- Keriba Way means ‘Our Way’ in Far North Queensland
- Legends of League brings healthy glow to Woorabinda
- Make connections at A Better Choice Conference and Expo 2023
- Marathon effort for health and wellbeing
- More than 2 million Queenslanders supported to make healthy happen in 2022
- Music boosts wellbeing in Bundaberg
- NAIDOC Week: closing the gap of understanding
- NAIDOC Week: Partnering with remote communities for childhood health
- National Obesity Strategy ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to reshape Queensland’s future
- New partnership with Queensland Symphony Orchestra announced
- Our Acknowledgement of Country
- Pick of the Crop growing farmer connections in Bundaberg
- Pick of the Crop is back in 2022 and we’re getting bigger and better
- Pick of the Crop swings into action
- Queensland welcomes inclusive, action-packed multi-sport experience
- Shifting the dial for more equitable outcomes for Queenslanders
- South West Nutrition Collaborative
- St George to George St – PhD student puts passion for accessible exercise into practice
- Staff profile: Judy Nean, health promotion’s heart
- Supporting the Gold Coast Marathon to reach Indigenous Youth
- Supporting young netballers to reach the top of their game
- Supporting young people to get traction in their life
- Thousands get active in picturesque fun run
- Torres Strait Junior Dash is a winner
- Under 10s take on first running event fuelled by good old fashioned sibling rivalry
- Walking the walk – Dr Robyn Littlewood and Natalie Cook inspire first time running event participants
- What NAIDOC Week means to Deanne
- Workplace wellbeing, Business Southbank and how to increase your brain reaction time at work
Media Releases
- $3.9 million investment to address obesity crisis cutting life expectancy of Queensland kids
- $68 million investment to get Queenslanders healthy
- Aussie families urged to ‘buy in season for healthy returns’ as the school year commences
- Back to school 2022: masks, RATs – and healthy lunchboxes
- Beryl Nashar Young Researcher of the year advancing children’s health and nutrition
- Brisbane 2032 Olympics to advance the health and wellbeing of Queenslanders by shining a light on physical activity
- Brisbane restaurant chains paving the way for healthier menu options for kids
- Brisbane South GPs encouraged to focus on healthier weight and wellbeing for kids
- Cafe’s colourful kids’ menu a recipe for success at industry awards
- Chef Matt Golinski is making healthy happen in new HWQld Ambassador role
- Chef Matt Golinski serves up healthy eating tips for Bundaberg and Wide Bay families
- Cost of living crunch: top tips to keep your weekly shop cheap and healthy
- COVID-19 exercise slump for two in five Queensland women: new survey
- Cricket hero Jodie Fields boosts Billion Steps Challenge
- Dr Robyn Littlewood awarded QUT Outstanding Alumni in Health for work improving nutritional heath of children
- ECHO® series helping Queensland’s rural doctors address childhood obesity
- Far North gathers to grow a healthy and secure remote food supply
- Firebird Takes Court for Blackall Fitness Celebration
- From farm to the classroom, Bundaberg is Pick of the Crop for school healthy eating pilot
- From paddock to party: farmers get behind end of year school celebrations
- Grants a $1.6 million boost for health and wellbeing of Queensland kids
- Health and Wellbeing Queensland Supports Outback Girls to Get Active
- Healthier meals on the menu for kids in Queensland
- Healthy shopping push for remote stores in Far North Queensland
- HWQld backs gathering of minds on obesity solutions
- It’s Pick of the Crop for Bowen as part of $1.7M Healthy Kids Pilot
- Junior Dash reaches from Coast to Cape with virtual events
- Logan Healthy Living set to transform lives in state’s diabetes hotspot
- Logan kids Pick of the Crop for healthy eating pilot putting veggies and fruit on the menu
- New healthy lifestyles partnership forged for South West
- Obesity crisis to cut life expectancy for Queensland kids: new report
- Pick of the Crop program growing in Logan as survey shows kids reap benefits
- Pick of the Crop thriving in Bowen and the Burdekin as survey shows kids reap benefits
- Pick of the Crop thriving in Bundaberg and Wide Bay as survey shows kids reap benefits
- Pick of the Crop’s bumper boost for Bundaberg primary schools as healthy eating pilot expands
- Queenslanders can help shape state plan to tackle obesity crisis
- Queenslanders challenged to test home cooking skills against QCWA’s best
- Queenslanders invited to have their say as Government strives for a healthier state
- Queenslanders invited to have their say on Remote Food Security Strategy
- Queenslanders not eating enough vegetables as cost-of-living crisis bites
- QUT welcomes Mark Tuohy as Visiting Fellow
- Remote health workers explore support for food stores
- Robyn Littlewood to Lead Health and Wellbeing Queensland
- Roundtable talks for action on Far North food issues
- Spotlight on State of Origin stars as Queenslandhers shine in new campaign
- Spotlight on women’s wellbeing as Queenslandhers rise above the challenges of 2020
- Support for Bicyclette to power up female social cycling
- Web series supports Queenslanders to make time for wellbeing
- Winner of Restaurant and Catering industry award is putting health on the menu for kids
Opinion
- Anna Voloschenko, HWQld Board member sharing her thoughts on what drives her
- Arts and wellbeing – a healthy partnership
- Changing the odds: why equity is our goal for next gen
- Climate change: what’s it got to do with health?
- Data or it didn’t happen: Queensland’s new horizon of digital public health
- How Logan Healthy Living changed Judie’s life
- Influencing the next generation to overcome childhood obesity
- Introducing Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe, HWQld Board Member sharing his thoughts on what drives him
- It’s never too late to discover what you are good at
- James shares how he’s helping make healthy happen for Queensland
- John Lee, HWQld Board Member shares his thoughts on what drives him
- Krystle shares why she’s helping shape program for Queensland families
- Obesity and COVID-19: It’s time to double down
- Peter shares how healthy lifestyle programs can make a difference
- Projections of obesity and life-expectancy in Queensland: obtaining social licence for action.
- Shea Spierings, HWQld Board Member shares his thoughts on what drives him
- Steve Ryan, HWQld Chair shares his thoughts on what drives him
- Using nutrition science to help people eat better
- Why ‘personal responsibility’ isn’t always the answer for better health
- Why we need to talk about Queensland’s hidden food crisis
Physical Activity
- 11 ways to get exercise into your day (even if you’re at home)
- Channeling your inner athlete in the Queensland heat and humidity
- Children’s Bedtime Matters for Healthy Weight
- Don’t drop the ball! How to safely return to play community sport this season
- How to stay healthy when you’re working from home
- Motivation versus routine: which is more effective for moving more?
- Preschool FUNdamentals at home: Easy and fun activities to practice basic movement skills at home
- Staying motivated to achieve your goals
- Three ways to stay fit and healthy after your run!
- Top 5 Queensland Scenic Walks
- Top tips to boost your activity during COVID-19
- Walking is a super-powered exercise activity, here’s why
- Working from home? Here’s how to set up your workstation ergonomically
Recipes
- Matt Golinski’s Rice Paper Rolls with Chicken, Vegetables and 3 Dipping Sauces
- Matt Golinski’s Yoghurt Chicken, Cucumber and Mint Kebabs
- Matt Golinski’s Cauliflower and Chickpea Balls with Beetroot Hommus
- Matt Golinski’s Cheat’s Lasagne
- Matt Golinski’s Dried Apricot, Coconut and Sunflower Seed Balls
- Matt Golinski’s Last-Minute Five-Minute Fried Rice
- Matt Golinski’s Roast Chicken, Pumpkin and Macadamia Salad
- Matt Golinski’s Sweetcorn, Capsicum and Cheese ‘Waffle Jaffles’
