Youth focus of health app study
Placing a cellphone on your tummy and breathing deeply may seem weird to some, but when it is paired with a health app, research assistant Andrea Merino Ortiz finds it very relaxing.
Placing a cellphone on your tummy and breathing deeply may seem weird to some, but when it is paired with a health app, research assistant Andrea Merino Ortiz finds it very relaxing.
Here's how Kate Hudson achieved her toned look at the Golden Globes.
Niki Bezzants explains why you don't need to detox and just be healthy.
Changing the times of key meals can shed body weight and cut the risk of heart attack, says a study.
Nutritional therapist Jeannette Hyde says the key to successful weight loss lies not in our muscles or mental attitude, but our intestines.
Now that the noise and clatter of Christmas and New Year has died down, this year promises the advent of a much-needed quiet revolution, finds Louisa Pritchard.
A majority of New Zealanders want a ban on junk food in school tuck shops but the Government says such a step isn't necessary.
New Zealand has the highest rate of melanoma in the world yet we have no effective therapy for advanced melanoma, writes Dr Chris Jackson.
Corazon Miller found Barrefigure testing despite her dance background.
E-cigarette marketing reaches more than two-thirds of middle and high school students in the United States.
A German carpenter has invented a valve which he claims will revolutionise contraception, by allowing a man to turn the flow of sperm on and off.
When it comes to drying your hands in the bathroom, which is better?
Many of us may want to forget how much pavlova we ate on Christmas Day. Now researchers have pinpointed the foods most likely to slip our minds.
Corazon Miller looked at some quirkier options to get moving after this New Year's. This time she joins the aerial yogis in their silk hammocks.
The secret to happiness is to turn off your smartphone email app according to psychologists, who warn that constant updates have become a "toxic source of stress".
Jett Morris' parents were told by doctors they had no option but to abort him at 20 weeks. But they ignored the advice and say it's a lesson for other parents.
So far this year I have read a chick lit book where someone gets Jean Cocteau, Jacques Cousteau and Jean Michel Jarre mixed up.
A study has rated the best running shoes - and it turns out the top price doesn't equal the best shoe.
Some cheap sunnies are just as good at protecting eyes from ultraviolet light as their more pricey counterparts.
The secret to keeping a New Year resolution is to ask, rather than tell, yourself to change your behaviour, research suggests.
As for me, 2015 was great. I always intended to have a splendid year of being 50, but I never imagined how wonderful it would be, Kerre writes.
Instead of depending on resolutions, Niki writes 5 simple changes you can make so by the end of the year you will feel truly more healthy.
Experts describe exactly how two weeks of no exercise can affect your physical and emotional health.
At her heaviest, Tauranga woman Kerryn Peters weighed 122kg. Today the mum-of-four is celebrating losing more than half of that to achieve a weight of 56kg.
If you want your toddler to be a healthy weight you might control portion sizes or the frequency of their meals and snacks.