New Zealanders‘ intake of sugar is not associated with being overweight or obese, new research released by the Sugar Research Advisory Service has found.
The New Zealand research, headed by University of Otago’s Dr Winsome Parnell and recently published online by Public Health Nutrition, examined data collected in the most recent New Zealand nutrition surveys for [...]
One in three employed Australians who take methamphetamine admit going to work high on the effects of the dangerous stimulant.
A new report on stimulant use among Australian workers has revealed that four per cent of the workforce has recently taken ice, speed or some other form of methamphetamine.
One in five said they had injected it.
The [...]
West Indies Cricket Board chief executive Donald Peters will meet Gayle over the weekend and inform his captain he is expected to return from the lucrative Twenty20 competition in time for the Test series against Australia.
%26quot;We havent discussed anything but we know the rules already, you have to get permission from your board, so obviously [...]
Welcome to Generation Z, the forgotten generation. Generation Z encompasses children aged 17 and younger, one in five of whom will have some form of mental illness.
One in four will be bullied, most likely over the internet. Also known as the New Silent Generation, it will be the most educated, financially well-off and technologically literate [...]
An officer of the now defunct Government Tourist and Publicity Department based in Wellington, Mr King was to find himself in the middle of survivors as they trickled into a clearing station in Wellingtons Central Railway Station.
The Invercargill man had not long moved to Wellington after four years based in the departments Sydney office and [...]
As a tenth generation member of the renowned tea empire, he should know.
With the retirement of his father Sam, Stephen is now the only Twining working for the 302-year old company, which still runs its original tea shop in Londons Strand.
During a visit Down Under to launch a new Twinings range specifically marketed for Australian [...]
Food prices were up 9 per cent in the year to February. Bread prices are soaring, dairy commodity prices have doubled.
Two factors copping most of the blame %26ndash; the burgeoning wealth of developing countries and the biofuels industry %26ndash; are unlikely to disappear soon.
China, India, and other emerging economies are driving up demand for meat [...]
Fast bowler Dale Steyn grabbed four of the last five wickets to bowl out India for 627 at tea in reply to South Africas 540 all out.
At the close, the tourists were 131 for one, 44 runs ahead with opener Neil McKenzie on 59 and Hashim Amla, top-scorer with 159 in the first innings, 35 [...]
It wasnt easy for them.
Unusually, heats were in the evening and finals in the morning.
This was to mirror the strange Beijing Olympics scheduling that accommodates big-spending American television. The New Zealand swimmers faced cut-throat pressure. They had to turn up and do the qualifying times, or they didnt get a plane ticket to Beijing.
Its good [...]
On a pitch you would comfortably nominate as the one to play for your life on, Strauss batted the day to put his country into a seemingly unassailable position after three days of the third test at McLean Park.
Strauss, 31, drove the quicks and cut the spinners on the way to an unbeaten 173, his [...]
