Health & Wellbeing

The advice to eat plenty of vegetable and fruit is one of the most consistent and positive nutrition messages we hear.

In the Southern hemisphere where Christmas coincides with our long summer holidays we have so much to consider and we may feel blessed or cursed. The good news is that there are some things we can do to help ourselves...

We all do it from time to time. We have a bad day and we think that this is the best time to set a goal and will be motivated to change. There is another way when we find ourselves in a stressful situation and want to do something about it...

Increasingly, we hear about brain fitness in the media. So what is it? Brain fitness is about how your brain and memory perform for you - every day.

When you first suffer back pain, are you one of those people who wait to see ...

It was my pleasure a wee while ago to run a six week course for the Kapiti Women's Centre in Paraparaumu. We met on a Friday morning for a couple of hours and I had some very enthusiastic participants!

In Laughter Yoga we regularly practise the nonsense language of Gibberish. It is a great way to release tension and inhibitions. To express deeply felt and difficult emotions and like laughter it can be practised anywhere at any time!

Lycopene is the pigment that makes certain fruits and vegetables red, such as tomatoes, watermelon, guava ...

In Laughter Yoga we have four elements of Joy that we practise regularly. They are: Laughing, Playing, Singing and Dancing.

When it comes to memory, it's "use it or lose it." Just as physical exercise can make and keep your body stronger, mental exercise can make your brain work better and lower the risk of mental decline.