Tummy troubles? A new yoghurt may be the answer. Gill South finds out more from the Fonterra Research Centre.

Herbalists offer some advice on the natural ways you can combat illness.

Eating loads of fruit and vegetables might not sound appealing to many teenagers but it could help protect them from mental health problems.

The latest trend in London - and California - is raw food. Journalist Samuel Muston gives it a go.

As Bevan Hurley steps up his training he recalls how a friend’s running challenge two years ago changed his life.

When the caregiver placed a tub of yoghurt next to my cornflakes, I responded guardedly: "What's all this then?"

Alcohol contains calories so it pays to limit intake if you want to lose weight, writes Susan Edmunds.

New Zealand's obesity rate surged ahead in the 12 years to 2009, a major nutrition report released today by the Ministry of Health shows.

Two previously beefy Brits who converted to New Zealand's "atmosphere of fitness" have spoken out against two fellow immigrants who said their new home made them fat.

Eating more slowly could be the answer to beating the battle of the bulge, according to a new survey.

Gill South doses up on the vitamin C and though she is feeling the benefits, the jury is out on its effects.

Links between high blood pressure and salt intake have been made for the first time in Australians.

Sharing food across the wider whanau is the only way Papakura's Peawini family keeps food on the table.

More than 100 Herald readers have signed up to pay $15 a month to sponsor hungry children in response to this week's campaign on the issue.

Poorer families are cutting out meat and vegetables to keep up repayments to finance companies, budgeters say.

Queen St is turning into a strip of fast-food outlets, despite the best efforts of city planners.

The idea that we are short of water comes from a guideline in 1945 that adults should drink 2.5 litres every day.