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Kokako dialect expressed in song Few people are as well qualified to write about one of New Zealand’s most rare and special birds as the late Jeff Hudson, a former hunter turned kokako expert. The Whakatane man spent 20 years helping save the kokako from extinction and discovered much about the birds that was previously unknown, or unconfirmed. For instance, his own talents as a musician helped Jeff establish that kokako have their own dialect, expressed in song. This and much more about the
Watercress’, tells bird is told in the story of the the book ‘Call bird he came to of the kokako’, love in a laconic, dictated by Jeff very Kiwi style. during his illness It’s a story of and not long the bush, the before he died of birds, his fellow cancer in 2007. Jeff directed the workers but biggest survey also of politiof kokako ever cal intrigues, attempted and was bureaucracy key to engineering and scientific the recovery of the research. species, especially Thanks to ted cta kako” di in the Te Urewera publishers “Call of the ko dson National Park. the Halcyon by Jeff Hu The man, who was Press, Coast & the inspiration for characters Country has a copy of ‘Call of the in Barry Crump’s book ‘Pork and kokako’ to give away.
To be in to win, email: Book Prize (in the subject line) with your name, address and phone number to: elaine@thesun.co.nz or include these details on the back of an envelope and post to Book Prize, Coast & Country, PO Box 240, Tauranga 3110 to arrive no later than June 17. The winner will be announced in the July Coast & Country.
10 minute personal health check Stop reading now – and do a 10 minute health check. Think of every part of your body and write a list of the body parts and systems that are not doing so well in order of priority. Some of the problems may be permanent while others can be improved or eliminated with the right type of therapy. I call this striving for perfect imperfection. My discipline of nutritional medicine identifies problems that can be influenced by nutritional therapy, usually in conjunction with conventional medicine. Every health problem creates its own nutritional requirements. For example, people with inflammatory bowel disease such as crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis have a lower level of vitamin and mineral absorption because their digestive system has been compromised by the disease. Other diseases increase the need for antioxidants, such as osteoarthritis where cartilage damage is mostly from free radical damage to joint cells. I’ve been helping someone with arthritis, muscular pain and low energy. After an investigation, we found she had long-standing arthritis and had developed statin myopathy, the muscular weakness and pain from long-term cholesterol lowering medications. We made sure her diet is antiinflammatory then added a broad spectrum multi-nutritional supplement plus a high grade CoQ10 supplement. Within a few months she’s had a major reduction in muscle and joint pain and a significant increase in her energy levels. While her results have been excellent there is nothing particularly difficult about what we did. We just identified the healing processes, compromised by disease and medication, then aided these through both supplements and a good diet. She is not perfect but she feels like a different person. If you are unwell, it maybe your body telling you things are not well. It may be time to review what you
are doing and then to implement measures to re-build your healing processes. Give me a call if you need more information. Join my weekly newsletter at: www.johnarts.co.nz or visit: www. abundant.co.nz John Arts is a Nutritional Therapist and founder of Abundant Health. Contact John on 0800 423 559. To read more go to www.sunlive.co.nz
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