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Unravelling the 'slow waves' in our bodies
They're called "slow waves" - and while we don't feel them, they propagate through our bodies each time we eat something. A new study aims to learn more about them.
They're called "slow waves" - and while we don't feel them, they propagate through our bodies each time we eat something. A new study aims to learn more about them.
She's not a hypnotist, but she can convince you that you're a criminal or were traumatised as a child. Elizabeth Loftus has ways of making you think.
COMMENT: The fact I have my gut feelings - and my gut - back is actually a good thing.
COMMENT: This year I want to be that one person out of ten who at least tries to stay conscious, to be truly alive.
Amber Arkell was in bed when boyfriend Kieran Wilson found a lump on her breast that turned out to be cancer.
Life is so much better when we allow ourselves to experience it in all its wonderful, fascinating variety.
Don't assume it's all downhill after 40, you can stay fit and well into old age.
Nutritionist reveals the meals to minimise a sore head - and the foods you should always avoid to prevent a lasting hangover.
COMMENT: Putting the past year in perspective can be good preparation for starting the next, writes Jan Aitken.
Generous Kiwis have donated thousands of dollars towards helping a young Auckland father who has been given only months to live. Ben
Quitline has revealed the top reasons New Zealanders who contacted them decided to give up smoking in 2016.
A brave woman has posted an image of her first time wearing a bikini, and the pic has attracted praise from strangers all over the world.
Dozens of women could have become pregnant with a stranger's child after a Dutch IVF clinic mixed up batches of sperm during fertility
A bodybuilder who uploaded a video of himself laughing at an elderly woman as she worked out has been banned for life from his gym.
Zirk Engelbrecht flipped forwards, backwards and into foam pits for six straight hours as people wondered if he'd gone mad.
Taupo toddler with an incurable brain stem tumour is beginning to show signs of increased mobility.
There is nothing pleasant about a gastro-type illness, just ask the 5000-or-so people who became ill from Havelock North's contaminated water in August.
Actress Carey Mulligan has urged people to keep close ties with relatives with dementia.
People who have been the same approximate size for their whole lives simply do not understand what it means for your body to undergo such a radical shift.
First one, then another. Bite! Slap! Bite! Before you know it, mosquitoes are descending from the skies to disrupt your backyard summer
Born in a time where booze, sex and a hangover pie were a given, is this generation rebelling by giving it all up?
It took an injury and a push from his fiance to propel him into a career in fitness and now he has helped his partner lose 16kg in the lead up to their wedding.
A Nigeria teenage girl who spent her life being carried around in a plastic bowl because her body stopped growing has died.
After working so hard she collapsed, a Kiwi woman became a mental health advocate - she wants to share some tips to help you work life in 2017.
COMMENT: It has long been thought sea frolicking has many health benefits.
A man going through treatment for colon cancer won a restaurant's raffle for a year's worth of free pizza and then donated his prize to a food bank.
George Michael is dead at 53 and we're not sure why, but we certainly speculate.
A Christchurch mother who shed 20kg in nine months simply by slashing sugar from her diet is today launching a recipe book to help others.
COMMENT: Psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald identifies the most important thing you can do for some battling depression.