Stuff had an article this week about personalised vitamins. Companies who require you to talk to a dietician before being recommended vitamins have been around in NZ for a while, but two companies ... (416 words)

Julia Rucklidge from Canterbury University has suggested that processed food may be a cause of a mental illness epidemic. I'm not sure that a) there is an epidemic, or b) processed food is a cause. ... (207 words)

A Southern Cross survey suggested some 1.56m New Zealanders regularly took the products. About 750,000 had done so for at least five years. University of Otago's Professor Jim Mann said: "It's ... (140 words)

Vitamin C is essential to human health, but our understanding of its role has been perverted by practitioners of 'alternative' medicine. The 18th-century discovery that oral citrus juice can protect ... (3244 words)

'Suckers' feed on alternative health patients - literally The NZ Herald (10-14 January) must have been having trouble filling its pages during the silly season, looking at its recent series on ... (1235 words)

Female 'sorcerers' tortured and murdered Four Papua New Guinea women, believed by fellow villagers to have used sorcery to cause a fatal road crash, were tortured with hot metal rods to confess, then ... (1225 words)