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  • Healthy Hearts with CHIP

    Healthy Hearts with CHIP

    Seventh-day Adventist churches in New Zealand are changing the health of their local communities through a simple lifestyle program. Paul Rankin reports.
  • Michael, Muhammad and Me

    Michael, Muhammad and Me

    People cope with life's bad news in different ways, but among the best is a sense of humour, as Parkinson's sufferer Alan Holman discovered.
  • Are Trans Fats to Die For?

    Are Trans Fats to Die For?

    Consuming 5 g trans fats daily is known to increase heart disease risk by 25 per cent.
  • Pills or Peanuts?

    Pills or Peanuts?

    Sometimes fact seems stranger than fiction. Certain high-fat foods, such as peanuts and peanut butter, not only protect us from developing heart disease, but high mono-unsaturated fat diets based on these foods have been found to work better than low-fat
  • Where's the Miracle?

    Where's the Miracle?

    It's frightening how your whole world can come crashing down in one short phone call. For Steve and Marion Penny, one phone conversation set in motion what was to become the most challenging yet refining season of their lives.