Cassie White
Cassie White has worked at ABC News Online as a reporter and producer since 2007.
Should you 'push through pain' when you exercise?
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When it comes to keeping fit, when do you tell yourself to stop griping and keep going — and when should you actually rest?
Topics: exercise-and-fitness, australia
A personal trainer's letter to her 20-year-old self Opinion
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What would you say to your 20-year-old self? Personal trainer, yoga teacher and fitness writer Cassie White sets her younger self straight on exercise, anxiety and booze.
Topics: health, exercise-and-fitness, australia
Do you really want to get fit? Observations from a PT Opinion
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You've vowed to get fit. Great. The thing is, it's a promise you've made to yourself before. So how can you tell if things will be different this time?
Topics: health, exercise-and-fitness, australia
10 days of silence: The new way to check out of life
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Could you be completely silent and do nothing but meditate for 10 days? More people are choosing solitude over sipping cocktails in a bid to recharge from the stress of life.
Topics: health, meditation-and-prayer, australia
Steroids: The skinny on getting big
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In the age of gym selfies and self-made Instagram superstars, steroids are no longer reserved for the strange underground world of men who lift gigantic things.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, exercise-and-fitness, health, australia
The bad gym habits you need to break Opinion
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When it comes to being a good (and safe) gym citizen, it pays to have good etiquette. Personal trainers see it all: the good, the bad and the stinky. Here are the top seven biggest killers of a healthy gym ecosystem.
Topics: exercise-and-fitness, health, australia
Four exercises to help strengthen your core
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Core strength is essential for good posture and the prevention of back pain. Here are four exercises to help you activate and strengthen your deep core.
Topics: exercise-and-fitness, health, back-pain, australia
Bodyweight exercises you can do at home
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Bodyweight exercises can be fantastic for losing weight and increasing fitness — and the best thing about them, is they are free and totally portable.
Topics: exercise-and-fitness, health, australia
Does positive thinking really improve mental health?
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We are often told "look on the bright side" or "focus on the good things" when times are tough but experts say the term "positive thinking" can actually cause more harm than good.
Topics: mental-health, health, medical-research, australia
Nintendo game pulled over child porn concerns
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A game withdrawn from Europe's shelves due to child pornography concerns has had its PG classification in Australia revoked.
Topics: nintendo-ds, arts-and-entertainment, games, community-and-society, pornography, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
Farmers 'may not survive' cattle export ban
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Australian farmers unwittingly caught up in the Indonesian abattoirs scandal may not survive a total ban on live exports.
Topics: livestock-welfare, business-economics-and-finance, industry, trade, law-crime-and-justice, animal-welfare, agribusiness, agricultural-policy, rural, livestock, beef-cattle, australia, indonesia
'Child porn' Nintendo game gets PG rating
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A Nintendo game that was pulled from sale in Europe over child porn concerns is on sale in Australia with a PG rating.
Topics: nintendo-ds, arts-and-entertainment, games, fighting, community-and-society, pornography, government-and-politics, federal-government, law-crime-and-justice, laws, australia
Silverchair call it a day... for now (audio)
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After almost 20 years, five successful albums and a record 21 ARIA awards, the boys from Silverchair have decided to call it a day - kind of.
Topics: music, arts-and-entertainment, popular-culture, newcastle-2300, australia, nsw
Doomsdayers put faith in Apocalypse now redux (photos)
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If you have seen the billboards while driving to work, then you will know today is predicted to be Judgment Day. An earthquake will strike, triggering the start of the apocalypse.
Topics: christianity, community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, human-interest, united-states, australia
Kids keen to ditch wheels and walk to school
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While thousands of kids will walk to school today, less than half who live a short distance from school hit the footpath on a regular basis - even though many of them want to.
Topics: exercise-and-fitness, community-and-society, family-and-children, children, parenting, education, schools, primary-schools, health, australia
Ecstasy impurity leads to designer drug rise
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As ecstasy use in Australia falls, experts warn the use of dangerous designer synthetic drugs, which can be made legally, may begin to rise.
Topics: ecstasy, community-and-society, drugs-and-substance-abuse, health, drug-use, australia
Army urged to rethink Diggers album ban
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The Army has been urged to reconsider its 11th hour scrapping of a tribute album recorded by three serving soldiers.
Topics: army, music, business-economics-and-finance, industry, music-industry, defence-and-national-security, defence-forces, australia
Coldplay, Kanye to headline Splendour (photos)
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Splendour in the Grass organisers have put the rumour mill to bed and announced this year's acts.
Topics: carnivals-and-festivals, arts-and-entertainment, events, music, woodford-4514, australia, qld
Captain says Houston, you're the problem (video) (photos)
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A serving Army Reserve officer says the "destructive" military culture will never change while Angus Houston remains chief.
Topics: army, defence-and-national-security, defence-forces, defence-industry, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
Aussie in nuke zone recounts 'fear and panic'
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An Australian man who lives near the crippled nuclear reactors in Japan says some people may never recover from the disaster.
Topics: nuclear-accident, disasters-and-accidents, earthquake, tidal-wave, japan, australia, qld, brisbane-4000
Mind the gap: women still chasing pay equality
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Australia has a female PM and women running large corporations, but 100 years since the inception of International Women's Day, they are still being paid less than men.
Topics: women, business-economics-and-finance, community-and-society, work, australia
Aussie 'put on hold' as Libya violence raged (video) (photos)
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A Melbourne woman who was stuck in Libya says DFAT put her on hold when she called for help as fierce fighting raged around her house in Tripoli.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, disasters-and-accidents, emergency-incidents, government-and-politics, federal-government, libyan-arab-jamahiriya, australia, vic, melbourne-3000
Boat tragedy father still waiting to bury daughter
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The father of a baby girl who died in the Christmas Island boat tragedy is distraught in immigration detention as he waits for her body to be released for burial, two months after the accident in which he also lost his wife and son.
Topics: refugees, community-and-society, immigration, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia, nsw, sydney-2000, qld, brisbane-4000, christmas-island
Australia facing bedbug invasion
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Australians are being warned there is no escape from bedbugs staging a jet-setting comeback in hotels on both sides of the Atlantic.
Topics: pests, tourism, transport, environment, lifestyle-and-leisure, travel-and-tourism, travel-health-and-safety, australia, nsw, bondi-2026, coogee-2034, sydney-2000, westmead-2145, qld, brisbane-4000
Mum starts adopt-a-town cyclone-relief scheme Feature
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After seeing the overwhelming generosity of Queenslanders during the floods, a mother was inspired to help people down on their luck after Cyclone Yasi.
Topics: charities-and-community-organisations, community-and-society, disasters-and-accidents, cyclones, floods, information-and-communication, internet-culture, mission-beach-4852, australia, qld, biloela-4715, south-mission-beach-4852, tully-4854
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