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Preparing for the Hollyford Track

While the Hollyford Track is not the most difficult of walks, it nonetheless requires some preparation. Here are our top tips to getting your body ready for the days of walking ahead.

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Overcoming Trauma: How to help yourself

When life deals a tough blow, the trauma can have a resounding impact on the affected individual’s life. For those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, therapy and unwavering support are key in paving the road to recovery.

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Who runs your house?

Does it feel like your kids run the house? We share the top 5 tips to setting boundaries for children’s behaviour.

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Trees for Bees

We can all do our bit to boost the nutritional forage for bees. Here are a few trees you can plant in your garden.

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Add Magnesium To Your Diet Naturally

A diet rich in magnesium has many health benefits, including reducing the risk of stroke. Here are our top 6 recipes to boost your magnesium intake.

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Quirky or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?

Eccentricity and cleanliness have become synonymous with OCD. Telling a friend they are “a little OCD” is a subtle way of telling them they need to relax a little. What are the implications of this association and does it matter?

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Sleep Easy: The charity that’s taking better sleep to the streets

This charity is providing the homeless with more than just a place to sleep – it’s providing opportunity, better health and a better future.

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Rescue remedy

Calmly accepting emotional distress rather than telling yourself to harden up and get over it can help you cope with life’s ups and downs, MiNDFOOD reports.

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Let them move! How fidgeting can actually help those with ADHD to focus

Moving around in lessons could help children with ADHD focus better.

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Hawaii buses become shelters for the homeless

Old city buses in Hawaii are set to be given new life and help the city’s most needy. 

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How to be happier, just the way you are

When beauty ideals are unattainable and accepted definitions of success all but impossible to achieve, it’s becoming harder than ever to accept or even like ourselves for who we are. But striving for a positive body image and healthy self-esteem is important for more than just a happier life – it could also ward off more serious mental health issues ahead.

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5 ways to boost your immunity with ‘good green stuff’

Dreading the endless cold and flu cycle that comes with the cool-weather seasons? Try these 5 herbs and supplements to boost your immunity.

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90 per cent of Vanuatu affected

The devastation caused by Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu has been upscaled to 90 per cent. Here’s how you can help.

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The dress that’s dividing the internet

Is this dress blue and black or white and gold? This is the question dividing the online world right now.

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Sounds that heal Alzheimer’s

It’s a well-known adage that music can soothe the soul, but in recent years, researchers have found it has applications in the treatment of the symptoms of dementia and Alzheimer’s sufferers.

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Recycle your phone to save wildlife

We’re being asked to recycle our mobile phones to reduce deforestation and threats to great apes and other wildlife.

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Shades of Grey in the Warm Heart of Africa

In Malawi, one in every 10 people is estimated to be infected with HIV. Therapist June Woodford shares her experiences working with at-risk adolescents in the area.

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Liberians hit back at Ebola stigma

As Ebola panic spreads across the US, a social media campaign by Liberians hopes to end the stigma and prejudice.

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Surrogacy: In want of a womb

The road to parenthood is paved with good intentions – and is not always conventional. As many people pursue surrogacy as a way to start a family, we look at the surrounding issues.

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Fat shaming leads to weight gain

Making people feel ashamed about their weight could lead them to gain more weight, not lose it.

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Death by suicide every 40 seconds

Somebody takes their life every 40 seconds, according to a report by the World Health Organisation.

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Creating a buzz: Backyard Bees author David Purdie

Last year the US lost an estimated third of its bee colonies. One man is determined not to let the same thing happen here.

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Mission Possible

MiNDFOOD meets the former New Zealand Police detective who is fighting sex trafficking around the world.

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Plight of the Yazidis

Thousands of Yazidis seek refuge on Mount Sinjar as Islamic State militants threaten to kill them all, and have already killed at least 500.

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