Virtual Medical Centre

Good health and giggles for women at VMC health seminar

More than 200 women came along to be entertained, informed and showered with exciting prizes at the Virtual Medical Centre's inaugural health seminar held last night.

The free one-hour seminar on "how to be and stay healthy" was attended by women of all ages and featured an informative and fun presentation by GP Dr Joe Kosterich, a professional speaker, health expert and leader in the field of wellness.

Dr Joe's humorous talk elicited frequent giggles from the audience whilst at the same time instilling an important message of health and wellbeing, in which his main advice was to "keep it simple".

He said people often became overwhelmed by inaccurate and sensational health warnings in the media, and gave up trying to be healthy because it seemed too difficult.

But through a discussion of good lifestyle habits, Dr Joe showed that keeping healthy is not a complicated affair, and anyone can lead a happy and healthy life.

As well as receiving valuable motivational health advice, guests at the seminar were also entertained with a performance from internationally-acclaimed comedian Lou Kelman.

Lou brought the house down with her light-hearted, G-rated tales and poems about the everyday troubles of womanhood that we can all relate to, such as marriage, hormones and growing old.

One of her stories recounted the tale of a woman who, still single at 40, hung a pair of "big purple undies" at the end of her bed in desperation and prayed every night for God to fill them with a man.

Another hilarious poem Lou performed was entitled "The first mammogram is the worst - especially when the machine catches on fire."

A more serious message about mammograms was offered by the final presenter for the evening, Sherryl Potts, who has been a nurse for over thirty years and has worked for the Breast Cancer Foundation of WA for almost two years.

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