Health & Wellbeing

    Everyone should exercise regularly. It helps maintain a healthy weight, elevates your mood, prevents ...

Obesity is a major health problem gripping most of the developed world. So like high blood pressure, high cholesterol or diabetes, are there medicines that can treat this health condition and result in sustained weight loss?

You have probably tried many different diets and plans for weight loss and had only partial, short lived or no success.

Cheryl Wiggins, pharmacist and integrative practitioner at Pharmaceutical Compounding NZ Ltd has been studying hormones at the international level and discusses "the hormone - age - sleep - fatigue connection" below.

Ask nearly anyone at the start of a new year what they hope to accomplish and weight loss is likely to be top of mind.

Sugar is part of our way of life. But we now know so much about the effects of sugar on our bodies, that it is time to heed the warnings.

Holidays often mean a fair amount of travelling and when you are sitting still for long periods of time, the risk of developing deep vein thrombosis (DVT).

Avocados are great brain food, in moderation! What you eat does affect how well you think and remember.

I always imagined when I reached my 60s life would consist of gardening, reading, taking walks, watching a few films and just taking it easy.

We can take responsibility for our brain and memory in the same way as we do for so many other aspects of living and ageing well and healthily.