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Principal body shames kids: 'You look fat'

Students and parents are fighting back against principal's body shaming speech.

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Ruth Spencer offers five techniques to trigger that memory.

Gastric balloon helping Kiwis lose weight without surgery

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Nanogirl: Some memories are better forgotten

COMMENT: New research shows how memories are formed - and how they might be erased.

OCD hell: ' I washed my hair 72 times a day'

A brave woman has opened up about how OCD made her life a living hell.

Woman fired for two 'period leaks' at work

Woman who worked as emergency responder is suing her former employer for unfair dismissal.

Warnings over new mermaid craze

Lifesaving organisations have issued warnings over a new mermaid craze following incidents

Study suggests avocados good for gut

A first-of-its-kind Kiwi study on rats suggests avocados have surprising health benefits.

Baby boomers hitting booze, bong at alarming levels

Young people are no longer the worry as baby boomers hit drugs at alarming rate.

Hero son saves mother, brother during birth

Son saves bleeding mother, suffocating brother during unexpected, dangerous home birth.

People who hear voices often have special abilities

Up to 15 per cent of the population hear voices when no one is speaking.

Katherine Heigl reveals how she lost 20kg

The actress has lost 20kg and says there's one thing in particular that really helped her.

A heart transplant saved this 13-year-old boy's life, but he died on his first day of school

Peyton West was born with only the right side of his heart functioning, his family said.

What to do when boundaries are being broken

Today, third and fourth Cs around boundaries Consequences and Choices.

Natural remedies to aid breastmilk production

Breastfeeding is not always as straightforward as you may think.

What to do if your job makes you depressed

How do you tell the difference between everyday stress, and work-induced mental illness?

What to do first at the gym

Which should you do first: cardio or strength training?

There are no hormones in our chicken, never was

We have fabulous food in NZ - the bad stuff is the exception, not the rule.