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Everyone taking part in the Paddle for Hope has a story of the impact of cancer on their lives to tell. Among the pink-clad paddleboarders lining up for the fancy dress four-person relay at Paddle for Hope in Auckland last weekend was Dianne Mayson of Orewa, who overcame many hurdles to take part.The quietly spoken English tutor says she didn’t normally do breast checks, but for some reason, in late 2009, she did.The lump she found turned out to be one of five tumours and an immediate mastectomy was required which removed 13 lymph nodes.Telling her two children, aged 16 and 11 at the time, required all her courage. A few days afterwards came the surgery – and then a long and problematic recovery. This included a full hysterectomy, memory loss as a side effect of the drugs and finding the strength to drive herself to and from radiotherapy treatments. There were complications from the implants and reconstruction and a battle with ACC.No wonder that she held a big party last year to celebrate being in remission.Although Dianne says she “slipped through the net” when it came to getting physiotherapy treatment after surgery, she later found out about the cancer rehabilitation programme run at Active Physio, which includes fully funded stand up paddle boarding classes in Orewa.Despite a lifelong fear of water, she got on a board and says it has given her a massive confidence boost.“Until this Paddle On programme I hadn’t been in the ocean in many years. The instructor Kath Pryce Jones and other survivors helped me overcome my huge fear of water.”

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Practicing with her team – with equipment supplied free of charge by Nik Sams of SUP Shed – has been a highlight. “It’s so beautiful and peaceful out there and it makes you forget things and enjoy the moment,” Dianne says. “You are with people who understand and have also been through a terrifying journey.”Dianne broke her thumb during her last SUP practice, but was determined to take part in Paddle for Hope. “I’m nervous and don’t know how I’m going to hold the paddle with a broken thumb, but I will find a way. It’s an amazing feeling and great for your body too. I would recommend this Paddle On programme to anyone – it’s awesome.”The Paddle for Hope is a fundraiser for the Pinc & Steel Cancer Rehabilitation Trust, which funds the physiotherapy programmes.Although the race has been and gone, on February 13, it’s not too late to donate at paddleforhope.co.nz. Look for the Everyday Hero link, then enter Dianne/Team Orewa. So far she has raised $1400.

The Hibiscus Rodders Orewa Beach Hop, which was held last Anniversary weekend, continues to grow – even managing to better last year’s fundraising effort for the Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust.This year a new record total of $35,000 was raised for the Trust.The event is a crowd pleaser, as well as popular with the hundreds of hot rod enthusiasts who take part. The three-day event drew an estimated 50,000 spectators.This year it included a drive in movie in Western Reserve and Miss Hibiscus Vintage fashion competition. Another new contest was the V8 Hot Chic Award for female car owners, which was won by Janine O’Gorman of Matakana with her ’58 Pontiac.Local Rodders Gavin and Rebecca Hollier of Orewa won two awards with their green 1967 Buick Electra – the Petrolhead Trophy and Loudest Stereo Sounds.Another Orewa resident, Carolyn Smith, won the Westpac Helicopter Trophy with her 1959 black and red Ford Mercury convertible. Show organiser Sharon Morris says hot rod owners travelled from as far away as Whangarei, New Plymouth, Gisborne and Te Awamutu to take part. “It’s great to promote hot rodding, great for our community and hopefully helps all the local businesses,” Sharon says. “And most of all, it raises fantastic funds for the Westpac Rescue Helicopter to help save lives.”

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A new regional wine and food festival will be run in conjunction with the Fruit Loop community fun run event at the Matakana Country Park on the first weekend in March.The Matakana Wine & Food Festival will be on March 5 and 6, featuring local wineries, craft breweries, restaurants, cafes and artisan food producers, plus local music and entertainment. The Matakana Fruit Loop will take place on the Saturday morning and will include a new ‘mini-loop’ around the perimeter of the park for 5-to-12-year-olds, in addition to the traditional trek through local orchards and farms.Both events are being managed and run by Paul Walker, who lives at Omaha. He says he’s keen to bring back Fruit Loop and combine it with a quality food and wine festival that will promote and showcase the area’s produce on an annual basis. And he stresses that the new event is being run by locals for locals and will start small.“I’ve taken time to talk to our producers, the wineries and cafes.We’re doing this to develop everyone’s business and the region as a whole.”The festival will be promoted as a high-end food and drink experience to encourage families and people who are interested in quality produce, and there will be a zero tolerance approach to excessive alcohol consumption – “the opportunity won’t even be allowed;

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they’ll just get shown the door”.Paul has taken over the running of Fruit Loop from the Matakana Community Group, and both parties regret that last year’s fun run had to be cancelled when the handover didn’t quite go as swiftly as had been hoped. However, it’s business as usual for 2016 and all Fruit Loop entrants will get the added bonus of free entry to the wine and food festival. But Paul stresses that the approach to the whole weekend is softly-softly, with the aim of building a lasting event to raise funds for local community projects.“This year’s going to be what it is, next year it will hopefully be bigger – we do want to learn and we want to grow it. We don’t want to crash and burn here,” he says. “I won’t make any money out of this, but it’s not about that. It’s about building a self-sustaining event and taking a holistic approach, trying to develop a long-term event that can be recognised as the iconic event in the region.” Info: mwff.co.nz/www.matakanafruitloop.co.nz

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Cutting back on the amount of refined sugar in our diet is something more people are attempting to do.It makes you wonder whether eventually the dessert that we pride ourselves on as Kiwis, Pavlova, may fall out of favour for its sugary sweetness.Refined sugar is the latest to join the line up of things that promote themselves by not being in our food – such as dairy free, gluten free and fat free. You’ll see RSF on these foods (refined sugar free).Refined sugar gives sweetness and calories but has little nutritional value. At one end of the spectrum, it’s been described as “the white death”, for some it is addictive (see Local Folk, p9) and for people with some health issues, such as diabetes, their intake is critical. For the rest of us it’s about awareness and alternatives. To satisfy our desire for sweet things, there are a lot of treats on offer in local cafés that replace refined sugar with other sweeteners such as honey, dates or Agave syrup. And local stores such as supermarkets, health food stores, Bin Inn and Fruit World, sell a bewildering number of sugar alternatives for the home baker.Hibiscus Matters’ Fresh Food columnist, Trudi Nelson, outlines her favourite options for refined sugar free home baking below:Sugar free optionsHere are six of the best alternatives to use in home baking rather than refined sugar. I think Stevia and rice malt

This ‘cheesecake’ from Link Café in Whangaparaoa uses honey as a sweetener. Other cafés offering refined sugar free options include Local Café in Manly Village, Gather Wholefoods in Silverdale and Charlie Coco’s in Orewa.

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syrup are the best. All of the options below are available at local health food and organic stores or supermarkets. And remember, sugar is not the complete enemy. When we were active hunter-gatherers, sugar was good! It’s all about balance. y Stevia is my favourite. You can even grow the plant yourself (it’s available in the herb section of some garden centres) and steep the leaves to make your own sweetener.

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y Pure extracts or essences – think vanilla, orange and lemon.

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The good, the bad, and the uglyAs a citizen of this modern day world, I know that LOL stands for “laugh out loud”. Yes, I am truly up to date! But how about the acronyms that get thrown about when you are discussing your cholesterol, such as LDL or HDL? Which is good cholesterol? Which is bad cholesterol? And what is downright ugly?!Cholesterol is something that everybody has and for the most part it does a lot of good things in our bodies. But sometimes it does the wrong thing in the wrong places and that is when plaques can form inside your arteries, which lead to a higher risk of heart attack or stroke.Despite all the acronyms, there is actually only one type of cholesterol but it is carried around your body by different carriers which are deemed “good” or “bad”. LDL-Cholesterol (carried by low density lipoproteins) is known as the ‘bad’ cholesterol because it dumps all the cholesterol in your artery walls forming those plaques. HDL-cholesterol (carried by high density lipoproteins) is known as the ‘good’ cholesterol as it transports cholesterol away from your arteries to your liver. There are also triglycerides that store and transport fat in your blood. A telling risk of heart attack or stroke is your total cholesterol/HDL-cholesterol ratio. (Total cholesterol equals LDL plus HDL plus triglycerides). As a rule of thumb, a lower risk is a ratio of less than 4.0. But your ideal ratio might be different, depending on your health and family history.While we can change our diet somewhat to help with our cholesterol levels, it is worth noting that only 25 percent of cholesterol in our bodies come from our diet. The other 75 percent is produced by your liver. So what can you do?Move more: frequent exercise can increase HDL-cholesterol by five percent.Lose weight: losing just five to 10 percent of your weight can help improve your cholesterol levels. Eat porridge: research indicates that the fibre in oats helps decrease LDL-cholesterol levels.Medication, prescribed by a doctor, may be used to lower cholesterol. It can keep a good many people living a lot longer. However, some of these medicines (statins) may lower Co-enzyme Q10 levels, which can leave you feeling tired. Co-enzyme Q10 is available in tablet form for replacement. However always see your health care professional for advice about what is suitable for you.

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Recently Hibiscus Matters caught up with Dr Ted Watson, who wrote a series of articles for the paper on his experiences since being diagnosed with Parkinsons.In the interim, he says he has become “a bit of a poster boy” for the Parkinson’s Society of NZ, with his face appearing in thousands of donation request letters.

Living with Parkinson’s – a ‘Brain Wave’ song to singIt is more than two years since I first wrote for Hibiscus Matters about my personal story from the beginnings of my diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease – through a number of phases as I experienced more of the symptoms. It has been an interesting and sometimes difficult journey.During the two years my wife, Jacqui, and I have shared the burden. She has been with me all the way. During this time we have moved to a retirement/lifestyle village in Mount Maunganui which proved to be a sound move. Security, support, companionship, and fun have all been amply demonstrated by this move.I have also reached a plateau in regard to Parkinson’s. I still get the good and bad days – just like everybody else I know with Parkinson’s.Perhaps the most worrisome thing has been a small spate of oesophagus blocking, the worst of which caused me to have a night in Tauranga A & E where they re-hydrated me and sent me home with a reminder – chew well, small portions and moist – lessons I had taught myself but forgot on each occasion. It just shows that you cannot give Parkinson’s an opening – if you do, beware!We have also become active in our support of the Parkinson’s Society of New Zealand. We have participated in advertising campaigns, are responsible for distribution of the regular Bay of

Plenty Parkinson’s newsletters, and I have begun guest speaking opportunities as a way of spreading the message. We are also both in the Brain Wave Singers choir. This is a group established several years ago to test the effectiveness of singing as a therapy for people with neurological problems – mainly, but not restricted to, stroke and Parkinson’s victims.The group is around 30 strong and we meet weekly. It is run by a professional speech therapist from Tauranga Hospital and the numbers are growing. We begin each weekly session with voice and facial muscle exercises and then we sing a selection of well-known songs – with a short tea break in between. We also do outside concerts.We all love it. No matter how “low” we might feel as we start, as soon as we begin to sing we all feel so much better. Problem is nobody wants to stop once we get going!I would strongly recommend that anybody who has a neurological problem seek out possible singing opportunities – there is nothing to lose and much to gain.So, my journey continues. We all await that miracle cure but I know also that we are all resigned to the day-by-day management of our complaint. Take the pills, recognise the signs, and for now – Keep Singing!! Jacqui and I certainly will.


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A new scheme encouraging 17-to 24-year-olds to come up with creative ways to stop the name-calling, neglect, bullying or social exclusion that young people with mental illness can face has been launched by the Mental Health Foundation (MHF).It says there is growing evidence to show that young people are more likely to be discriminated against than older people with mental illness, and they may be discouraged from seeking help due to fears of being ridiculed.Its new Point Of Difference (POD) incubator programme is looking for videos, websites, apps, writing, drama, music, art and other ideas to combat such stigma, and is focusing on 17- to

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Osteopath Jessica Rioufrays, who recently began work at ThreeSixty Osteopathy in Orewa, spent much of her clinical training helping patients with osteoarthritis and is excited to begin working with people on the Coast who have the condition.A lot of the patients with osteoarthritis who sought help at the Unitec clinics where Jessica completed her Osteopathy Masters degree were over the age of 75 and had the painful and debilitating condition in their knees or hips.Jessica says that one of the most important things is to work specifically on the tasks that an individual finds difficult.For many sufferers, the stiffness is generally worse in the morning.“Some people described taking an hour to put their clothes on in the morning, so the condition was really affecting their daily life,” Jessica says.Walking, standing for extended periods of time (such as while cooking), or lifting heavy objects were other common issues.The help offered by osteopathy includes exercises, sometimes involving the use of props such as an elastic Theraband, tennis balls or spiky balls.Jessica says it’s important to take the time to show patients how to do each specific exercise, which is tailored just for them. Structural osteopaths like Jessica also offer treatments that include articulation, to increase movement through the joints, and deep tissue massage. These types of treatments aim to increase the range of motion in a particular area of the body, which reduces tension in the associated muscles. This, in turn, can reduce the level of pain.

A holistic approach can also mean helping the patient to stay positive.“It’s sometimes hard for people to stay positive and not focus on the limitations brought about by something like osteoarthritis,” Jessica says. “We encourage them to follow their interests and get involved in local groups and activities.”She says teamwork among health professionals is also important and can lead to a collaborative effort with osteopaths, doctors, physiotherapists and chiropractors all having input.The key is to improve a person’s quality of life.“Osteopathy can’t cure arthritis. All we can do is improve day to day life for patients and slow the progress of the condition.”

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