Reader’s Digest New Zealand

No wonder Reader's Digest is the world's most widely read magazine. Hard-hitting, thought-provoking and entertaining, with unforgettable stories in each issue, RD is packed with features short enough to read in one sitting, but stimulating enough to keep you thinking for days. Every month millions of people get inspired, informed and entertained by its wide variety of stories about people, health, humour, adventures and world events, written by the best local and international journalists. All the stories are fact checked to the smallest details to ensure that readers get the most accurate and truthful stories, making Reader’s Digest the world’s most trusted magazine.

A Choice Selection Of Stories

Reader’s Digest

LETTERS • Reader’s Comments And Opinions

NEWS WORTH SHARING

My Year Of Playing 70 Sports • The year I turned 70, I decided to have some fun and games

SMART ANIMALS • The world around them is a wondrous place

Why Do Cats Knock Things Over? • Just curious or attention-seeking? Their antics explained

A Healing Process • Why do wounds mend more slowly as we age?

Sore Feet? • How to choose a pair of shoes that keep your toes, heels and arches happy

News From The WORLD OF MEDICINE

A FRESH FRAME • Elvis Costello has been delivering hits for decades. Stewart Bell discovers the pandemic has had a big impact on his latest music

SWEPT AWAY • For the parents of the bride, fear replaces joy as a raging river scoops up their car on the way to the wedding

LIFE’S LIKE THAT • Seeing The Funny Side

THE GREAT TWEET-OFF: THE SCHOOL RUN • The parents of Twitter have some good pick-up lines.

PIZZA • Today it is relished around the world, but pizza was once scorned as poor-man’s fare – until royalty intervened…

Can You Change Your Luck? • And is luck even a real thing? It’s complicated

SEE THE WORLD… …DIFFERENTLY

LAUGHTER • The Best Medicine

AP-PEELING BANANA JOKES FOR A BUNCH OF LAUGHS

Beware The ANTICLIMAX • How to handle the unexpected downside of achieving your goals

New Help For Hearing Loss • Today’s solutions not only reunite you with easy conversations, they also reduce your chances of having a fall, becoming depressed and more

JOBS AT THE TOP • They are not only found in the executive suite

LAUGHING Matters • Humour connects us to one another. But what we find funny has changed over the past 100 years

The Ancient MAGIC Of KITES • For millennia, kites have mesmerised people around the world. Now, a new generation of artists is taking their creations to greater heights

ALL IN A DAY’S WORK • Humour On The Job

SHOULD’VE SEEN THAT COMING

The Quirks Of LONG-TERM LOVE

QUOTABLE QUOTES

Clean The Things You Never Do But Should • We often ignore important things in our housework routine. But adding a task or two is easy

Ping & Gaston • Fostering a pair of ducklings brought new joy to our home – until I discovered what awaited them back at the farm

We Eat Birthday Cake • Hint: It has to do with the Ancient Greeks!

BALI By Chance • Our unplanned visit to this holiday hotspot was full of surprises

SWITCHD • In 1962, nurses at a small hospital sent home two women with the wrong babies. Then, 50 years later, their children discovered the shocking mistake

RD RECOMMENDS

JUST KEEP WALKING… • Wait! Is The 10,000 Step Goal A Myth?

PUZZLES • Challenge yourself by solving these puzzles and mind stretchers, then check your answers on page 142.

FAMILY FUN

TRIVIA • Test Your General Knowledge

PUZZLE ANSWERS

What’s In A Name? • More than...