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Time to spring-clean your health routine!

We tend to get a little slack in winter in terms of our diet and exercise, so make spring a time to reflect what is, and isn't working. Then you can work out ways to better look after yourself. With the return of warmer temperatures and more sunlight, staying motivated and on top of your health...

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Crowd “jumpstarted” Bollywood-style at Holi event.

‘Holi Colours in the Park’ is a fun-filled community event organised by popular radio station, Humm FM. Held at Three Kings Reserve in Auckland on Saturday, March 18th, this culturally diverse event celebrated the Holi Festival of Colours and was attended by around 5,000 people, including nationa...

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Jumpstart leaps into Wellington and Invercargill.

JumpStart, the YMCA-based fitness and health programme designed to help people with diabetes get more active, has recently rolled out into two more cities: Invercargill and Wellington’s Upper Hutt.In New Zealand, one in four people in New Zealand are pre-diabetic and at risk of developing Type 2...

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How people with diabetes are jumpstarting their journey to health

Across 14 YMCA centres in Auckland, Hamilton Invercargill and Wellington, an innovative health and fitness programme is giving hope to New Zealanders diagnosed with pre-diabetes and diabetes. Called Jumpstart, the ten-week exercise and education programme was launched in mid-2015 with a pilot on...

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Pharmaco celebrates 50 years of improving Kiwi lives

Pharmaco New Zealand has marked its Golden Jubilee as an independent Kiwi Company with a special celebration on 16th March. Founded on the same day back in 1967, Pharmaco was established to give New Zealanders access to some of the best healthcare products from around the world by representing ov...

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