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, […]
Arnie was asked about men’s mental health
Arnie is a legend. Mr Olympia, mad good actor, married a Kennedy, Governor of America’s largest state and a guy people want to listen to. So when Arnold Schwarzenegger was asked on his podcast what’s going on with men’s mental health, he typically didn’t hold back. Basically it’s hasta la vista for social he reckons. […]
Mates can make you healthier
When talking about men’s health there’s a major factor no doctor in the world can prescribe: Friendship! Talking to US based Men’sHealth, Dr Robin Dunbar, one of the world’s top researchers on friendship, says it’s is one of the easiest ways to boost health and happiness. The issue he says, is that survey after survey […]
10,000 steps: good but certainly not essential
It’s time to call BS on the idea that 10,000 steps is the gold standard of what we should be walking each day for optimal health. It’s not. Buy any step-tracker and you’ll find the default goal you need to aim for is 10,000 steps. It’s the magical number we never knew about from which […]
Time to talk to a mate?
Talking to a mate might be the best thing you can do We all get stressed out and we all get down. One out of five of us will at some point be diagnosed with a mood or anxiety disorder, and according to the stats, half of us in New Zealand will know a close […]
Go big or go home is bollocks
Go big or go home – not helpful advice guys Inspirational, motivating and macho as hell, but also just the dumbest advice you will ever hear. What started as an ad line for Harley exhaust pipes has become a by-line for achievement through max effort. In fact most of the go-biggers actually do end up […]
It’s a world record we don’t want
New Zealand tops the world in our rates of melanoma and we have the highest melanoma death rates in the world. The findings, published this year in JAMA Dermatology, showed melanoma rates were highest in New Zealand and Australia (combined) in 2020, followed by Western Europe, North America and Northern Europe. Worse, us Kiwis have the highest […]
Here’s what the doctor says guys
Long-time Auckland GP Dr John Cameron joined TVNZ’s Haley Holt to talk about how the doctor-patient thing works these days. It’s quick, easy and non-judgemental. You chat, they take a bit of blood, that gets tested and the experts get an idea of what’s happening inside of you. Next time you get checked, these are […]
