Health & Wellness

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

It's summer, the rackets are singing, the ASB and Heineken tournaments and the Aussie Open has been and gone . So what a better topic to write about than that annoying old injury known as tennis elbow.

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?

I commonly ask participants in my workshops and seminars a few questions; "How many of you are actively trying to lose weight?" To which inevitably the majority of people raise their hands.

Your brain is a bit like a road. You spend the first twenty years building it, the next ten consolidating and then, at age 30 your road is at its physical peak.

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.

Most of our resolutions to do better, be it becoming physically fitter, losing weight, or quitting smoking are about forming a new habit. But how can this be done?

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.

Great news has just been published by the American Geriatrics Society. Brain training works!