Health & Wellbeing

Health & Wellbeing

E scooters take toll

Arm and clavicle fractures are the most common injuries for riders of E scooters , according to researchers at Tampere University Finland.…

Jun 2022

Health & Wellbeing

Cooking Corner

Gin and Tonic cake. Ingredients Cake                                …

Jun 2022

Health & Wellbeing

Cooking Corner

Egg, potato and avocado salad Ingredients 3 eggs 1 cup baby potatoes 1 cup baby tomatoes 1 small loose leaf lettuce 1…

May 2022

Health & Wellbeing

Sweet science

Dark chocolate makes your gut happy according to a new study published by the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry. Participants in a clinical…

Apr 2022

Health & Wellbeing

The compensations of old age 

Sometimes the old brain doesn’t kick in so quickly as it used to. Salvor Dali wrote about one technique he used to…

Apr 2022

Health & Wellbeing

KEEP YOUR FITNESS UP

Nuku Ora, Age Concern Wairarapa and the Wairarapa Positive Ageing Co-ordinator for the three Councils are asking our seniors to “keep your…

Apr 2022

Health & Wellbeing

Coping with Covid

It has been a tough time for the team at the Martinborough Health Centre and it is likely to get worse before…

Mar 2022

Health & Wellbeing

Cooking corner

Courgette fritters With some big courgette crops being reported there are probably people wondering what to do with them. Here is one…

Mar 2022

Health & Wellbeing

The greater enemy?

Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than evil,” wrote Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian. Bonhoeffer pondered how this came…

Feb 2022

Health & Wellbeing

Cooking Corner – Corn and lentil fritters

Ingredients 1 cup wholemeal flour 1 tsp baking powder 400gr can of lentils – drained 420 gr can whole kernel corn –…

Feb 2022

Health & Wellbeing

Sunscreens don’t mix

UK and US researchers warn not to mix sunscreens. They tested five non mineral based sunscreens and found that when applied over…

Dec 2021

Health & Wellbeing

Knees up

A prescription of education and exercise rather than medication and surgery may be just what the doctor ordered for people with some…

Dec 2021

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