Health & Wellbeing

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

Health & Wellbeing

Comfort food

Rosemary and garlic smashed potatoes These alert-level-bedevilled times call for comfort food. We are told that the average New Zealander has packed on…

Dec 2021

Health & Wellbeing

Careful on that pony

Researchers analysing hospital data have found that the likelihood of serious injury from horse riding is higher than so called high risk…

Dec 2021

Health & Wellbeing

Cooking Corner

Salmon, pasta and spring veg salad Ingredients Salmon fillet 2 tbs Olive Oil 80 gr asparagus Garlic clove 1 tbs capers Juice…

Dec 2021

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