Health & Wellbeing

Author: The Pure Food Co Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is one of the more well-known progressive neurodegenerative conditions due in part to Mike J Fox and Muhammad Ali. Attention often focuses on the motor/movement features of PD, however non-motor features may also become involved e.g. changes in behavior, sleep, and sensation. …

Author: The Pure Food Co Malnutrition in New Zealand is a real problem, especially in the older population. National studies illustrate malnutrition affects 20 to 50 percent of older adults in the health care setting, and up to 31 percent in the community. It is an issue that is often …

After years of research, biologist Elizabeth Blackburn and her colleagues – who won the 2009 Nobel Prize for medicine for their discovery – concluded that we can primarily blame ageing on our chromosomes. She explains that all the cells in our bodies carry chromosomes that are capped at either end …

New Zealanders have an affinity to water that’s hard to match with any other country in the world. In New Zealand we are very lucky to live in a country where we are never more than a couple of hours away from water, whether it be a beach, lake, or …

A new US study has found around half of people aged 65 to 80 wrongly believe that sleep problems were simply a result of ageing, with one in three using medication to help them sleep at night. The data from the National Poll on Healthy Aging at the University of Michigan also …

We all know physical activity is good for us – but is one type of physical activity “better” for us than another? Researchers at the German center for Neurodegenerative Diseases compared two fitness routine – dancing and endurance training – over 18 months in volunteers with an average age of …

New Zealand Hearing 2018 Awareness Week occurs between the 3rd to the 9th of March with the theme of Noise Destroys! The intention of this week is to encourage all New Zealanders, both young and old alike, to turn their attention to the health and longevity of their hearing. For …

They say baking soothes the soul. How can it not? There is something so reassuring about the ritual – quietly weighing out ingredients, whisking, beating, folding and kneading. It is not just indulging in the end results – the cake, the biscuits, the scones – that helps to brighten up a …

There is something just inherently good about getting out in nature. This is why green spaces and natural environments within neighbourhoods and residential built are essential for the health and well-being of older adults. Firstly, they can provide older adults with an opportunity to be active physically and socially. Secondly, …

For many people, summertime means wearing summer sandals or jandals. But what if your toes had a fungal nail infection? Yikes! Don’t think you would suffer from it? Think again –  it’s estimated 1 in 4 Kiwis over 60 have suffered from a fungal nail infection in the last 12 …