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If you’re a wine lover you probably know about some of its many selling points. It’s claimed that red wine especially, can protect against certain cancers, improve mental health and provide benefits to the heart as well — all when consumed in modera...

Fatty foods and alcohol were a way of life for restaurateur Rick Olson. On any given Friday you could find him propped up at a bar, drinking for hours. On Saturday mornings he’d ease his hangover with a cheeseburger or some other greasy treat. No mor...

Sometimes when you’re going through an emotional crisis, you need to retreat. That’s what Ruth-Anne Outerbridge found when her youngest son went off to boarding school. She was 44, and suddenly her house was empty of children. “All of a sudden I was...

Bernie O’Reilly Hook had four children under the age of six when she went off to university. Friends and family questioned her sanity. But she was 31 and had dreamed of becoming a pharmacist since she was a teenager. “Everybody said it was physically...

Shawnie Payne tells people she’s about to turn 40 next month and no one believes her. That’s because she’s managed to keep herself looking young through exercise, a nutrient-rich diet and a zest for life. The mother-of-two recently put herself in d...

If you knew Monica Teixeira in high school, you might be surprised to hear she’s a fitness champion. As the 23-year-old tells it, she was a “little chubster” back then. That all changed when she went to university, where a group of friends hooked h...

How many women stay in unhappy relationships hoping the other person will change? How many women escape from one nightmare only to find themselves reliving the experience in their next relationship? Rosana Vickers is offering a helping hand to women ...

Asthma sufferers visited the Emergency Department at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital more than 2,000 times last year. It needn’t be so. According to asthma charity Open Airways, each of those visits signals an asthma management plan that has faile...

Ron Lucas was scuba diving 12 days after he completed treatment for his prostate cancer. He’d endured 42 CT scans and one bone scan. Then came the 39 sessions of focused beam radiation therapy, which left him 15lbs lighter. “I had a fairly advanced d...

After years of working herself to the bone, Arianna Huffington finally had a wake-up call in 2007. She was getting little sleep and exhausted from working 18 hour days, seven days a week. It took a nasty fall, which broke her cheekbone and resulted i...