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Five of the best: Smoothie recipes

We've asked four of our favourite health nuts to share their number one smoothie recipe.

Lauren Kamnik longed for children - and all at once, she had three

Lauren Kamnik always knew that she was meant to be a mom. For as long as she could remember, she'd been envisioning the chubby feet and the tiny outfits and the happy chaos of a house with kids.

The digital age disease

We increasingly fear things we have no reasonable cause to fear. While the number of clinically diagnosable agoraphobics hasn't increased, something that reeks of agoraphobia seems to be presenting itself all around us.

Change your fitness mindset

Instead of calling it quits for the year, what if you resolved to change your mindset about fitness?

Five of the best: Tips to get a good night's sleep

Getting a good night's sleep puts your brain and body in good stead for the week ahead. It helps you make good decisions, get on well with people, be more creative, have more energy, process information better - all the things that make a good day.

How to beat the midlife blues

Midlife crisis? What crisis? Suzanne McFadden meets three women in their 40s reinventing their lives.

The science of why we lie

We tell 10 lies every week — but what’s the reasoning behind so many untruths, asks Olivia Goldhill.

What your food cravings mean

Experts say that cravings are the body's way of telling us that something is missing. But what do our desires for certain foods mean?

How to keep cool on hot days

Are neck, hand or forearm cooling, ice-cube sucking or cold showers effective ways to lose heat on those dog days of summer? Can sports clothing keep you cool by wicking away sweat?

Do you really need carbs to recover from exercise?

Recent research suggests carbohydrate-rich foods may not be helping exercise recovery as previously thought and their potential link with metabolic diseases are raising questions.

$10 test could help spot heart attacks

A simple blood test costing about $10 could help doctors spot twice as many heart attacks in women, a study has claimed.

Starting to thin out? Hair loss doesn't have to lead to baldness

Hair loss is no longer an inevitable march to baldness. Medical advances over recent decades mean male hair loss can be treated. So, what are the treatment options?

Smart inhaler gives kids 'quality of life'

A trial with 220 Auckland children has proved that a “smart inhaler” that beeps when you forget to puff from it can dramatically reduce asthma.

Superfoods of 2015

Kale, quinoa and kombucha ruled the trendy healthful-food scene in 2014. But what will take center stage in 2015?

Smoking parents linked to cot deaths - report

A study by Public Health Wales found the rate of fatalities where parents smoked was "alarmingly high".

A drink a day better than none

Scientists have discovered that having up to seven drinks a week may give you a better chance of avoiding heart failure than people who abstain from alcohol completely.

7 things you need to know about new WHO report

For those of us not in positions to make decisions that could stop the wave of non-communicable diseases, here are seven key lessons from this latest update.

To kick bad habits, do it as a couple - study

Couples are more likely to give up smoking, visit the gym, or lose weight if they get healthy together, a study has found.