Rewards of a healthy spine: Muscle People
The key benefits of maintaining a healthy spine are better movement, posture, and quality of life. A healthy spine is crucial for overall body stability, posture and protecting the spinal cord. Though often overlooked, the spine plays a crucial role in everyday movements. Neglecting your spine through poor posture or movement can cause […]
Realistic resolutions
New Year, New You: the slogan that has long since become a cliché, encouraging us to completely rebuild ourselves into better versions each year. While growing as individuals is important, the pressure this puts on us to manufacture motivation is simply unattainable. Setting resolutions has strayed from its purpose in our lives, becoming […]
Personalised medicine: Cashel Pharmacy
Do you often feel like health advice is a one-size-fits-all? Or one size fits most? You can now access personalised health advice based on your genetics, it is just a simple cheek swab and a consult away. DNA holds the blueprint for how your body responds to the world around it. At Unichem […]
Donate blood this year: NZ Blood
With 2023 well underway, some New Year’s resolutions may have already fallen by the wayside (whoops). It’s not too late, however, to initiate a new lifesaving resolution and start donating blood or plasma right now. Aotearoa needs more than 4000 blood donations each week, but fewer than four percent of the population are […]
Eating and exercise
Millions of people worldwide make resolutions every January, hoping to improve their health. Most wish to lose weight, get fit, or eat healthy, so here are some tips that may help. Getting healthy doesn’t just happen overnight so patience is a virtue in this instance. You will also need to factor in lifestyle […]
Exercise made easy: Rutherford Fitness Canterbury
Most Kiwis have a fitness goal amongst their New Year resolutions. But like clockwork, life catches up with us. T he team at Rutherford Fitness Canterbury have the solution to make all those excuses much harder to give in to. With their extensive range of quality cardio machines and try-before-you-buy system, you can […]
Optimising your sleep
A good sleep is the key to functioning well, however sleeping right through the night eludes many people. Here are some holistic tips to help you sleep well. Use them to balance your sleep and kick in ‘sleepy hormones’ at night. Decide which work the best for you as an individual, and incorporate […]
Being mindful
Mindfulness is about living in the moment, and being fully aware of inner and outer experiences. A deliberate action, being mindful may be applied to any number of situations, such as mindful eating, mindful exercise, and being mindful about certain processes. For anyone considering being more mindful, eating is a good start. Take, […]
Slip, slop, slap, and map
A classic Kiwi summer involves good fun, good food and good company, a lot of this taking place under the sun. More often than not, we forget to apply or reapply enough sunscreen to reduce our chance of melanoma. If this is something you are guilty of, mole mapping is the best thing […]
Go nuts!
Weight loss is never an easy nut to crack, but a handful of almonds might keep extra kilos at bay, according to new research from the University of South Australia. Examining how almonds can affect appetite, researchers found that a snack of 30-50 grams of the nut could help people cut back on […]
