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Our team of experts bring you evidence-based health advice you can trust, covering everything from food and nutrients, specific health and medical topics to exercise, weight loss, diet trends and mental health.

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Gardening diary: Late spring

Late spring provides the perfect opportunity to dig for value in your vege...

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How do they make canned food?

HFG senior nutritionist Rose Carr explores the production of common foods. Frenchman Nicholas Appert...

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Guide to cooking oils

When it comes to cooking oils, we are spoiled for choice these days....

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Gardening diary: Mid-spring

What to do in your garden in mid-spring. The organic approach Organic gardening is more...

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10 ways with cottage cheese

Cottage cheese is a versatile and healthy ingredient. 1.  Work-day snack For a light and...

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How do they produce eggs?

HFG senior nutritionist Rose Carr investigates a protein staple. It’s estimated that in 2010...

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20 easy vegetable snacks

Vegetables are the perfect snack food. Including veges as snacks gets you closer...

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Don’t die of embarrassment: Bowel cancer screening

Think bowel cancer can’t happen to you – or just don’t want to...

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Gardening diary: Early spring

What to do in your garden in early spring. Planting While the soil temperature should...

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Your guide to chillies

What are chillies? Chillies are part of the capsicum family. They are readily available...

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How do they raise chickens?

HFG senior nutritionist Rose Carr looks at the production of New Zealanders’ most...

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Can you have too much of a good thing?

We all know what’s good – but is more always better? HFG nutritionist...

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Metabolic syndrome: Could you have it and not know it?

Nutritionist Bronwen King explains an increasingly common issue that many New Zealanders may...

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Eating well at work

Different working situations present different healthy eating challenges. HFG nutritionist Claire Turnbull has...

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Kids’ special: Fat

Did you know fat is a nutrient? It gives us energy and is...

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Kids’ special: Snack attack

What you choose to eat between your main meals can make all the...

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Kids’ special: Water

Water is so important for your health – and all you have to...

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Kids’ special: Processed food

Before you eat food, do you ever think about how the food started...
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