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You say Tomato: Preserve the Essence of Summer with Delectable Homemade Passata

Sweet, juicy tomatoes are surprisingly easy to grow. Once the season ends, keep the taste of summer alive with bottles of delicious homemade passata.

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Strawberry Mascarpone Terrine

This light and airy Strawberry Mascarpone Terrine is the perfect summer dessert.

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10 best-ever picnic food recipes

With Aucklanders now able to have double-bubble meetings outdoors, MiNDFOOD brings you some picnic recipe inspiration.

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Chilli Beef with Pickled Chillies

Our warming Chilli Beef with Pickled Chillies is the perfect slow cook meal for a lazy weekend.

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What’s All The Fuss About Vitamin C?

Vitamin C has far more benefits than simply boosting our immune system. MiNDFOOD reports.

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Five exercises for all-over tone

Simple to achieve, these gentle exercises will shape and tone your body in all the right places.

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Feed your Creativity

The cells in our brain are in a constant state of activity as they fire messages between them. Here’s how to boost your capacity for inspirational ideas by nourishing your nerve cells.

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10 steps to creativity

Suffering from brain freeze and need a little inspiration? 
Follow these simple steps to get your creative juices flowing again, MiNDFOOD reports.

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Insulin a cure for Alzheimer’s?

An insulin nasal spray may provide a promising new treatment for Alzheimer’s, researchers say.

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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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Smart Eating: Migraines & headaches

Tension headaches and migraines plague many people, with the causes often unknown. Find out why what you eat could help ease – or aggravate – these complaints.

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Getting even

Inequality plagues many societies. Our resident psychologist looks at how putting others down, or being put down ourselves, contributes to society’s malaise.

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The Ex Factor: coping with co-parenting

Coping with the challenges of a relationship break-up can be made all the more difficult when co-parenting comes into play. We share advice on how to ease the way when it comes to bringing up your children harmoniously.

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Shift work ages the brain, dulls intellect

Working anti-social hours can prematurely age your brain and dull intellectual ability.

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Laughter Improves Memory

Does laughter hold the key for preserving short-term memory in ageing brains?

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Green tea improves working memory

Long prized for its health benefits, new research now shows that green tea improves your working memory too.

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How to tell if someone’s lying

When it comes to detecting lies, researchers say trust your gut.

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Natural fertility solutions

Naturopath Kathleen McFarlane shares the lifestyle practices and environmental factors that might impact a woman’s ability to conceive.

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A Mediterranean diet could ward off dementia

A diet rich in fresh fruit, vegetables, fish, nuts and olive oil is the “best strategy available” to ward off dementia.

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Junk food make men depressed

Middle-aged men whose diets are high in processed foods and sugary drinks are at greater risk of depression.

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World Suicide Prevention Day: Overcoming the Stigma

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day, the theme this year is stigma: a major barrier to suicide prevention.

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Happiness and physical health

Fascinating new research has recently emerged from the University of North Carolina in the USA showing that your physical health […]

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Fennel helps alleviate PMT

Drops made with fennel seeds could help women overcome the monthly melancholy of pre-menstrual tension.

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Clenching onto your memory

Do you find it hard to remember or recall names and dates? A simple solution can be found in clenching your fists, new research shows.

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