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When Simon Goss was growing up on his family’s farm in Mangamahu, he had an amazing team to help him learn how to shear. Now he’s set a new world record for a two-stand eight-hour lamb shear.

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How does good nutrition help us stay healthy as we age? We explore the link between age-related changes, their impact on our diet and what we should eat to age healthily.

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It’s a love story with a happy ending – Elizabeth and Paul O’Brien will be celebrating this Valentine’s Day with the knowledge Elizabeth’s heart has finally recovered.

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It may be hard to believe, but Kelly Widdowson was just 26 years old when she had her heart attack.

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The Heart Foundation is calling for New Zealanders to show their big hearts by volunteering for its single most important fundraising campaign of the year on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 February 2022.

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New Zealand footballer Paige Satchell, currently playing for professional club London City Lionesses, is one of a younger generation of Kiwis suffering from heart disease. This February she’s joining the call for Kiwis to get their hearts checked and to donate to the Big Heart Appeal to fund heart research.

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This is my story… Our son was born in June 2010 - a very healthy 10.3lb! Less than 2 weeks later, in the early hours of the morning, I suffered sudden deep pain in the centre of my chest, so painful I knew something was drastically wrong.

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Premature babies and their mothers are at higher risk of developing heart disease, but new research could change New Zealand’s national guidelines for cardiovascular screening for mothers and babies.

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After losing her dad to a sudden and devastating heart attack, Dorothy Cutts made a decision to keep other families together for longer.

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A South Auckland women’s gym is getting behind the Heart Foundation this month, to raise money to support its life-saving work and give back to the Papakura community.

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Luke Cairns’ wife and three young children could easily have spent Christmas 2014 without a husband and father.

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…only 41 Trudy Hudson-Owen never thought she’d have a heart attack, let alone in such a dramatic way. The Whangarei mother of two was washing the windows at home on a Sunday afternoon, when she started to feel unwell. And within 20 minutes, she had no pulse.

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