After her father's death, this woman lived on a diet of fast food, including kebabs for breakfast.

After seeing her 10-year-old son, who weighed 80kg, struggle to finish a school race, this mum decided it was time to make some changes for her family.

A metabolism expert explains what happens to your body on a diet - and what to do next.

Black Sticks star Gemma Flynn shares how she maintains a healthy diet and good relationship with food.

The Government's new plan to get help for obese kids is proving a turn-off to many parents.

Busting the biggest myths counteracting your ability to lose fat.

Forget coconut water and kale, these are the new healthy foods nutritionists predict will take over in 2017.

There are five places around the world where people live beyond 100 years, have the least chronic disease and the greatest vitality. Here's how they do it.

Vaughan Somerville spent large chunks of his childhood and youth in Starship being treated for the complications of cystic fibrosis.

Need a little more spring to your step? Here's how to boost your energy simply by making smarter food choices.

COMMENT: Milk without reintroduced permeates is available and costs little more than one that tastes more watery.

First users of advice "toolkit" report more exercise, smaller meals.

Tax would lead 14 per cent to quit, survey finds

You've heard it before and you'll hear it again: breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and eating it could help battle the bulge and manage it long-term.

COMMENT: The only winners here are the diet promoters, who are laughing all the way to the bank.

Kiwis keen to shape up for summer are spending up to $99 a day on detox programmes, but experts warn there is little evidence they work.

She was a lifelong chocolate fan, but after ballooning to 183kg, this Auckland mum dropped 10 dress sizes.

More kids are consuming at least the recommended minimum amount of dairy following the supply of a daily drink of milk in schools, new research has found.

COMMENT: A ban on soft drinks is not the answer: Let's collectively shape healthy choices.

Survey finds 59 per cent are stressed at least weekly

Baby-led weaning, or getting your infant to eat finger food, could hold the cure for childhood obesity.

Missing a workout or two won't kill me, and it might even be good, giving my muscles a chance to rest and recover.

Most of us are confused about diet because we're always trying to pin the blame on one nutrient, says an expert.

The majority of Kiwi parents admit to feeding their kids up on poor food just so they will at least eat something.

Feeling under the weather or that you're carrying too much weight after a chilly winter? Here are tips from Dr Libby Weaver.

Forty per cent of obese children and adolescents in a New Zealand study have been found to be at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes in future.

COMMENT: One day I'm going to give up this talk of moderation and balance and a wide variety of whole foods and write a diet book.

Many of us are notorious for eating lots and ditching all our self-imposed diet and exercise rules on the weekends.

COMMENT: Pete Evans has said people should stop eating dairy because it will remove calcium from bones. For the record, the experts say this is nonsense.

Fast-growing Comvita doesn't just want to rely on honey - it is adding olive leaf extract and Omega-3 fish oils to its portfolio of natural health products.