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Feelings about fat key to reducing it

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 09:45:54 +0000

The New Zealand government has just launched a campaign to tackle what is now a childhood obesity epidemic. The Before School Check (B4SC) programme will, by December 2017, refer on ...
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Diagnosis hits harder than we think

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:45:21 +0000

Diagnosis is important in identifying and curing disease, but we cannot ignore that it also has a very strong social impact, says Doctor Annemarie Jutel, an associate professor at Victoria ...
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Social isolation challenge for happy city

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 10:08:23 +0000

In the world of city planning, attention is turning to the psychological impact of the built environment. Can a row of buildings make people as happy as they can make ...
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Therapy helps beat diabetes

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 00:34:39 +0000

Clinical psychologist Steve Malcolm talks to Sally Webster about his recent involvement in a diabetic trial and how value and belief work is vital in beating the now rampant disease. ...
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Social isolation roots of female mental illness?

admin — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 03:21:57 +0000

If you’re female and have a good social life there’s less chance of you committing suicide – this was at the core of a recently published study, courtesy the Journal ...
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Zero certainty fuels mental illness

admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 11:01:48 +0000

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WINZ ups mental health training

admin — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 10:34:03 +0000

SALLY WEBSTER discovers yet another layer of welfare related outrage was heaped on the British government yesterday. The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies issued a press release stating ...
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No paper left for convalescent colouring

admin — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 08:37:54 +0000

If anything shows that people are desperate for a quiet and healing distraction from their frantic lives, it’s the frenzied buying of a meticulously executed colouring book that is purported ...
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Aged care icon derelict for decade

admin — Tue, 19 May 2015 02:05:11 +0000

Caring for a ballooning population of elderly New Zealanders is one of this country’s biggest challenges and focuses largely on Auckland. This is not a new problem.

As colonial ...
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The Misery Trap

admin — Fri, 01 May 2015 09:17:13 +0000

IT’S NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD THESE DAYS. IT’S ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU CAN GET ON CREDIT. THIS YEAR’S RECORD CREDIT DEBT FIGURES SHOW NEW ZEALANDERS ARE HAPPIER TO ...
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