Well-cooked potatoes, chips and toast contain high levels of dangerous chemicals, study shows.

Hi Sandra, I have trouble sleeping. I don't want to take sleeping tablets but I am not able to sleep a whole night through, mostly waking at 3am - can you help?

This week's alarming health headlines are about new research showing vegetable oils release toxic chemicals when heated, which cause cancer.

Jane Phare meets the fashionable foodies changing the way we eat.

The latest prescription of this sort comes from a Danish think tank called the Happiness Research Institute, which this week published a new report on the connection between Facebook use and basically every negative emotion a human can feel.

Skin cancer is the most common cancer in New Zealand but a large number of Kiwis are still failing to be sun-smart in the summer months.

Developing a sudden liking for slapstick comedy could herald the onset of dementia up to nine years before the illness is diagnosed.

Nutrition experts say Labour's policy to reduce sugar in foods is a good move, but a sugar tax on fizzy drinks is an essential step.

More than a million New Zealanders are thought to have prediabetes and one in four Kiwis don't even know we're at risk.

Researchers have developed a protein-based drug that offers a potential breakthrough treatment for those with severe brain and spinal cord injuries.

Addiction is a word we throw around too readily, sending us on the wrong track like the matters of comparing tobacco and bacon, Paul writes.

As the middle-aged are advised to get more sleep, trend forecaster and chronic insomniac Jane Kellock, 53, describes how she'd like nothing more.

Fillings may do more harm than good, senior dentists have warned, as they called on colleagues to ensure they use up-to-date techniques.

Here's four things I've learned about quitting.

Do you find yourself overeating and always hungry for more?

Dogs can be trained to sniff out health problems in the sweat of patients with type 1 diabetes, according to a new study.

Exercising first thing in the morning may lower a woman's risk of becoming overweight.

Quitting smoking? Actually pretty easy.

Britons should try to avoid bacon, sausages and other cured meats altogether as they are as big a cancer threat as cigarettes, experts have warned.

I was, as they say in Palmerston North, totally maggot.

One week to go - only one week until I can go back to smoking 20 cigarettes a day.

The original Buddhify app features 80 guided meditation exercise audio tracks designed for work, going to sleep, de-stressing, travelling and more.

Today, I look like a cartoonish stoner in a suit.