Trekking to Machu Picchu is a once in a lifetime experience, and I am so glad to have been able to do it. Once in a lifetime, that is, unless you are a guide or a porter on the Inca Trail.

Nadia Lim's recipes in last week's Bite encouraging us to eat more slowly, reminded me of an article I read recently that said the average person puts on 3.6kg when on a two-week vacation to the U.S.

Self-care is often confused with selfishness, so frequently comes very low down on people's "To do" list - just under "clean out the garage" and "take jacket to the drycleaners".

The number of youths taking their own lives has surged by more than 40 per cent, and the suicide of a child under nine has been recorded for the first time.

Victim's mother says she has been let down by the mental health system.

Being unpopular with your classmates may not only make your schooldays miserable, it could also make you ill decades later.

Police have named a 36-year-old man who was found dead at his Auckland home yesterday. His accused killer, a mental health patient who lived at the same address, is due to appear in court today.