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:emma parry Last word... Emma Parry Emma Parry is a Specialist Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and a Subspecialist in Maternal Fetal Medicine. She is currently Clinical Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Auckland City Hospital. She is a regular speaker and organises conferences and workshops in New Zealand and Australia through several organisations. Her research fields include Preterm Labour and Induction of Labour, Health Informatics in Women's Health and improving Maternal and Perinatal Health in the Developing World. Going to some amazing charity events and feeling virtuous as well as enjoying yourself! As a board member of Variety - The Children's Charity, I am always looking at what is on. Who would have thought I would have gone to an evening of poetry reading with the melodious Sam Hunt or run the Round the Bays with my daughters, all whilst helping a fantastic cause. Watch out on the Variety website for the most amazing Variety of Chefs event coming up at the end of July… It will sell out overnight! Looking at how we eat in NewZealand. Recent research has shown (again) that the Mediterranean diet is good for you. In the study, participants had increased olive oil, vegetables and nuts in their diet and showed a reduction in cardiac events. I am a big fan of a great breakfast that keeps you full for longer. So for me that is usually a bowl of homemade bircher muesli, fruit yoghurt and stewed fruit. It is very cheap to do. The bircher muesli is a mix of rolled oats with nuts and dried fruit chopped in. You can make a whole tub up, then every couple of days put a smaller amount in a small tub and add trim milk and pop in the fridge overnight. For the stewed fruit I buy stone fruit when it is super cheap in the shops and poach for a few minutes on the stove top with a small amount of water and sugar and then freeze it. It is fabulous to have a zing of tangy summer fruit in the middle of winter. But the bottom line is that most of us eat too much and we need to control our portion size. We need to eat less and move more. Easier said than done. Buying fabulous art when you see it. A few years ago I didn't buy a piece of art I loved at a reasonable price and then kept regretting it as I followed the artist's progress and move away from the style that I had loved. Luckily for me she started to paint in the style I had loved again and I tracked her down. I had the most marvellous day in Matakana, North of Auckland, visiting her studio with my mum and a great friend. I had already organised via email a piece that I was going to buy if I liked it when I saw it in the 'flesh'. After looking at her walls of art, I walked away with not one but three pieces and my mum two pieces and my friend one! All three of us have the most wonderful memories of that day and stunning art to remind us. If you like a piece of art you always will and you don't need others to decide whether it is worthwhile. 132 | www. h e rmagaz i n e . c o. n z Listening to your teenage daughter. My 14-year-old is the font of all knowledge and a great advisor in many matters (what dress to buy, what colour car is best, what to write about in an article and what genre a book should be). So often it is easy to dismiss our youth yet there are so many wonderful young men and women in New Zealand who have fresh ideas and a different approach to life. It is easy to think of Generation Y as being out for themselves and little else. Think about the Student Volunteer Army in Christchurch as a great example. Doing it for the vibe not the money. Work takes up around a third of your life and sleep another third, so it is worthwhile trying to make your job one that you love, as it won't seem like hard work. I always feel so lucky to love the job I do and I am not sure what I would do if I didn't. However, I am pretty sure that I would try to change what I did if I didn't enjoy it. Going to the effort of changing handbags to match your outfit each day. I have about twenty handbags (this is after a big clearout recently) and I go through phases where I try to change my handbag each day. It does make you feel great about what you are wearing, but requires concentration in the morning so you don't leave your phone/ office key/ favourite lipstick/ emergency chocolate residing at the bottom of the wrong bag. On that note.. Accepting it is okay to have emergency chocolate on a daily basis if it is only one small dark chocolate square.