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Under Pressure?
With books titled Rushing Woman’s Syndrome, The Stress Solution, and Perform Under Pressure lining our bookshelves, there’s no denying stress and anxiety...
Benefits of blackcurrants
Blackcurrants are having a moment. Research published last year suggested that consuming blackcurrant juice had a short-term positive impact on mental...
The power of microgreens and how to grow them
It seems extraordinary that so much of what is currently available to eat contains so little in the way of actual nourishment. Fizzy drinks, sweets and...
Niki Bezzant: What is the keto diet and is it actually harmful?
Sometimes there is quite a difference between the way nutrition research is reported and what the research actually shows.Coverage of a recent study about...
How to beat food poisoning
Campylobacter is the most common notifiable food-borne disease in New Zealand, with chicken the most common source of food-borne campylobacter. Our...
Louise Thompson: Capture happiness in the smile jar
In my experience of coaching thousands of people to health and happiness, I have found that as much as we seek magic silver bullet solutions that change the...
Louise Thompson: Share the joy
It’s not too soon to talk Christmas lunch, is it? My tree is already up, so I reckon it’s fair game. It’s got political over the years has Christmas lunch....
Quinoa, stand aside, say hello to teff
I’ve been away but not out of the kitchen. I’ve been cooking my way through a new book. Four months of fat and sugar have left their toll, thus the yoga mat...
Louise Thompson: Events and memories
There is little more annoying than seeing your Facebook feed jammed with loads of smiling faces at an event you so tooooootally would have gone to, had you...
Louise Thompson: Beach body
There is an excellent meme that continues to circle about this time of year, year after year, about how to “Get a Beach Body”. It goes like this: 1 Have a...