According to the Heart Foundation, cardiovascular disease (heart, stroke and blood vessel disease) will affect one in twenty adults. Medicine has advanced considerably in the last 50 years, and while the incidence of heart attacks is on the rise (due to the increase in population and the "obesity epidemic") the mortality rate has nearly halved.
Read moreSeptember 10th is World Suicide Prevention Day - a worldwide effort led by the International Association for Suicide Prevention and World Health Organization to improve education about suicide, decrease stigma and raise awareness of the warning signs of suicide.
Read moreMyocardial Infarction - more commonly known as a heart attack - is when there is a sudden blockage of a coronary artery by a blood clot. There are a myriad of factors which lead to cardiovascular disease, which accounts for 30% of New Zealand deaths annually. These factors include high blood pressure, raised cholesterol, smoking, being overweight and/or physically inactive and family history.
Read moreI was sitting down last night contemplating the last couple of weeks, as we have been hosting an overseas guest, Kaplan Mobray. Kaplan was in NZ, all the way from New York City, for four speaking engagements on the topic of his best-selling book … The 10ks of Personal Branding.
Read moreI am an avid DIYer! I have renovated a number of houses including building decks, recladding, installing new windows, relining interior walls and renovating the odd bathroom. I thought this gave me a fairly good handle on what the rebuild cost of my own house would be with the change in the insurance from sq/m to Sum Insured.
Read moreWhile they are little (and still cute) it's an excellent time to get some great shots of your kids and capture the special moments in life. Taking a good photo can be a bit hit and miss - what you see can sometimes be nothing like what comes out on film (or these days, on screen). Here are some tips to taking a better snap:
Read moreYou have worked hard all day, fought the traffic to get home and now you have to slave over the stove for an hour to make dinner, right?
Read moreBob and Jane had been together for ten years. They each had grown up children from previous marriages and also had assets from those relationships which they had agreed would be their own separate property. They had seen their own lawyers and signed a relationship property agreement (or pre-nuptial agreement). They lived in a house which Bob owned 40% of and Jane owned 60% of and they both owned shares in a business that they had started together five years ago.
Read moreWe are into the long stretch of weekends between Queens Birthday and Labour Day. Yep, no long weekends for nearly half of the year (around 21 weeks). To save your sanity, here are a few suggestions for weekends away within 100kms of Auckland Harbour Bridge. Take off on a Friday afternoon, and come back Sunday, refreshed and ready to face the next week!
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