Wellington City — For 2000 years the people of the remote mountain region of Junin in Peru have consumed a sacred medicinal root vegetable called Maca for the management of stress and to promote vitality and well-being.
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Wellington City — A get-together is planned at Waitangi Park playground this Sunday morning (2 September) to help highlight the benefits of smokefree sports parks and playgrounds.
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Wellington City — We're about to start installing smokefree signs in Wellington City's playgrounds, sports parks and skate parks and to help explain why we've made this change, a launch is planned at Waitangi Park playground this Sunday (2 September).
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Wellington City — New Zealand’s first Fat Studies conference will be held at Massey’s Wellington campus this week.
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Wellington City — All Wellington City sports parks and playgrounds are to become smoke-free areas as the Council moves to support the Government's goal of making New Zealand smoke-free by 2025.
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Wellington City — We now have a small machine that could save lives at one of the many events the city hosts each year - all thanks to the generosity of St John Ambulance and RWC Philips.
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Wellington City — Over 120 teenagers united in Wellington’s Civic Square this morning (9 June) to challenge smokers to quit as part of a public this Matariki ceremony organised by Quitline.
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Wellington City — Civic Square, Wellington, Speech Matariki 2011 will leave an enduring memory in the minds of all New Zealanders.
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Wellington City — Pacific Island people can look to the past for ways of reducing health issues arising from unhealthy eating, says a Victoria University PhD graduate.
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Wellington City — Serious skin infection rates in New Zealand children have increased markedly over the last two decades according to new research from the University of Otago, Wellington.
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Wellington City — Today, November 16th 2009, Members of Parliament from the National Party, Maori Party, Green Party and Labour Party including Tony Ryall and Pita Sharples were tested for diabetes in Parliament.
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Wellington City — International risk specialist Dr David Hillson will be in New Zealand during August and September to share his unique insights into exploiting uncertainty.
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Wellington City — New Zealand has different patterns of testicular cancer occurrence compared to the rest of the developed world, particularly in relation to ethnicity, but also socio-economic status according to a new study from the University of Otago, Wellington.
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Wellington City — An expert on organ and tissue donation says that cultural sensitivity is sometimes believed to be behind New Zealand's startlingly low rates of deceased organ donation, but the issues are more complex.
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Wellington City — Age is no impediment to one's zest for life, if the three New Zealanders who received awards at last night's Osteoporosis New Zealand You Deserve a Medal ceremony in Parliament are any indication.
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Wellington City — Cost has been a major factor in causing thousands of New Zealanders to defer primary health care treatment according to a new study by the University of Otago Wellington.
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Wellington City — Wellingtonians should be thinking about family, friends and neighbours - and making a few commonsense preparations - as the prospect of swine flu spreading through the population increases.
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Wellington City — The Green Party is calling for an immediate halt to Methyl Bromide fumigation at Wellington’s port, following revelations today that this potentially hazardous activity is taking place right next to Westpac stadium, Victoria University’s campus at the railway station, and visiting cruise ships.
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Wellington City — Wellington city workers are being encouraged to get out of their chairs and get moving in 2008 as part of the Putting the Well in Wellington exercise campaign.
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Wellington City — Health spokesperson for the Maori Party, Tariana Turia, has today spoken of her horror at the latest revelations of hospital failures afflicting the Capital Health and Coast District Health Board.
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