Life is so much better when we allow ourselves to experience it in all its wonderful, fascinating variety.

Don't assume it's all downhill after 40, you can stay fit and well into old age.

Nutritionist reveals the meals to minimise a sore head - and the foods you should always avoid to prevent a lasting hangover.

COMMENT: Putting the past year in perspective can be good preparation for starting the next, writes Jan Aitken.

Almost 60 cases of food poisoning are being linked to a farm selling raw milk, it emerged yesterday.

'Tis the season to consume more alcohol than normal, but the throbbing head that follows is not so festive. Here's how to avoid a bad hangover.

Generous Kiwis have donated thousands of dollars towards helping a young Auckland father who has been given only months to live. Ben

Quitline has revealed the top reasons New Zealanders who contacted them decided to give up smoking in 2016.

A brave woman has posted an image of her first time wearing a bikini, and the pic has attracted praise from strangers all over the world.

Zirk Engelbrecht flipped forwards, backwards and into foam pits for six straight hours as people wondered if he'd gone mad.

Taupo toddler with an incurable brain stem tumour is beginning to show signs of increased mobility.

There is nothing pleasant about a gastro-type illness, just ask the 5000-or-so people who became ill from Havelock North's contaminated water in August.

Actress Carey Mulligan has urged people to keep close ties with relatives with dementia.

Evolution could be to blame for chronic hip pain, scientists have revealed.

Jasmin Floyd just thought she had a stiff neck. Little did she know she was growing a second skeleton that would eventually trap her in her own body.

People who have been the same approximate size for their whole lives simply do not understand what it means for your body to undergo such a radical shift.

First one, then another. Bite! Slap! Bite! Before you know it, mosquitoes are descending from the skies to disrupt your backyard summer

Born in a time where booze, sex and a hangover pie were a given, is this generation rebelling by giving it all up?

After working so hard she collapsed, a Kiwi woman became a mental health advocate - she wants to share some tips to help you work life in 2017.

Is it better to shower in the morning or the evening?

COMMENT: It has long been thought sea frolicking has many health benefits.

A man going through treatment for colon cancer won a restaurant's raffle for a year's worth of free pizza and then donated his prize to a food bank.

George Michael is dead at 53 and we're not sure why, but we certainly speculate.

A Christchurch mother who shed 20kg in nine months simply by slashing sugar from her diet is today launching a recipe book to help others.

COMMENT: Psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald identifies the most important thing you can do for some battling depression.

• Philip Clarke is a Professor of Health Economics, University of Melbourne. Chris Schilling is an associate lecturer, Health

WATCH: A schoolgirl has become an internet sensation with her rendition of Hallelujah which has been watched 3 million times.

Prepare to get stumped all over again with a look back at the trickiest optical illusions from this year.

The mother of a disabled child claims she found an angry note posted on a car that shamed her for parking in a handicapped space.

Polly Gillespie shares her daughter Katherine's reaction as a young adult watching her parents break up.