This is the time of year where people are starting to get fatigued and ready for a break. However, work needs finishing before the holidays, the kids needing taking to all their end of term acti
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Wellness blog
How to Get rid of Stretch Marks after Pregnancy or Weight Loss
Healthy skin is seen as an indicator of overall health, and as such we are bombarded with photoshopped images of flawless, glowing perfection beaming at us from magazines, adverts and across the inter
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Out of AfricaWhile we may all be ‘the same’ on the inside, these insides of ours have many different ways of letting us know when something is out-of-balance with our biochemistry. For instance,
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Anyone can suffer from a urinary tract infection (UTI) but there are risk factors that mean some people are more prone to getting a UTI than others. Risk factors can change over time, so you can
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Let’s be honest Beetroots are not the prettiest vegetables to look at – but they sure do pack a mighty nutritional punch and have been growing in popularity as a superfood. The humble, common beetroot
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Oxidative damage can occur through things like stress, heavily processed, preservative filled foods, and chemicals in skincare and cleaning products, environmental pollution and the suns harsh rays. I
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The true golden rule“Make sure you wipe from the front to the back”, my mother called out to me when she discovered I had ventured off to the toilet on my own for the first time. And, because she
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Kelp is the large brown seaweed that grows in the shallow seawater around the world. It is different to the nori seaweed we are used to consuming with sushi, but it is a key part of both the Japanese
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Headaches are something of a modern plague, affecting the majority of the population from time to time, and some people on a very regular basis. While they can range from very mild to severe and debil
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Gout is an extremely painful inflammatory condition affecting the joints, most common in men. It affects around 4% of New Zealanders over the age of 20, and is particularly prevalent amongst Maori and
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Three out of four women will experience a vaginal yeast imbalance at some point in their lifetime. This problem, known as vaginal thrush, is caused by an overgrowth of the yeast in the vagina.
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The slippery elm is a medium sized tree found in North American that has been used as a natural remedy for hundreds of years. Native Americans have traditionally used medicines made from the slippery
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