Old favourites can be heart-friendly too

By following a heart-healthy way of eating, you will be ensuring that you get all the nutrients you need to support your health. There are many ways you can eat to support your heart health and all of them are simple variations on a common dietary theme. The key is to base your diet around […]

Sugar – when it’s not sweet as

Sugar has been part of mankind’s diet from the start.  Our bodies need sugar to break it down to glucose and fructose. Glucose is the body and brain’s number one energy source, so much so that we can even get a little shot of dopamine as thanks, while fructose helps the body store fat, handy […]

Processed foods – convenient but how healthy?

Natural and Processed foods – what’s the difference and why should we know? “Where possible we should be trying to eat whole foods that are close to how they’re found in nature and dial back on highly processed foods.” Good solid advice for us all from the Heart Foundation’s chief adviser on Food and Nutrition, […]

Sit less, move more

Sit less and move more the key to working from home With many people now able to work from home more often, New Zealanders are sitting more and moving less. WFH might just be putting many of us at greater risk of heart disease. Truth is we are all sitting more these days. Working from […]