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Your Way to a Healthier Lifestyle |
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 Live Life Lighter is a programme which is focused on good health through managing body weight, a critical factor in so many of our chronic illnesses and causes of death in New Zealand – principally, diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer.
Why the Weight Topic?
As we have said, having a ‘healthy’ body weight is a key element to many, even most health problems. It applies to both sexes as well as children.
‘Weight’ is constantly in the news whether it’s the cost and pressure on our Health system, the food we are eating - and shouldn’t be eating, our children and their tuck-shops etc, etc. We are constantly being bombarded with these stories.
But there is something that can be done about it - and easily so!
Our Partners
Freemasons New Zealand have partnered with these NZ organisations to bring you the best information on health possible:
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Let's Talk About Men's Health |
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Written by Dr. Chris Kalderimis
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Monday, 29 September 2008 16:45 |
Today a Men's health phone-in between 5pm and 9pm, run by the Wellington division of the Cancer Society, can be used by men to talk to doctors about aspects about cancer, in particular, but also about men's health, in general.
It is a sad fact of life that often those who most need care are those most reluctant, or unable, to access it. This is certainly the case with men's health. Men will die, on average, seven to eight years younger than women, are more likely to be diagnosed with cancer, and more likely to die of heart disease or diabetes.
Men will seek a diagnosis of any of these diseases much later than women do simply because they are so reluctant to see a doctor. As one of my colleagues so aptly put it: "Men don't come and see us until bits start falling off."
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