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 Certain Synchronicity

Reader’s Digest

LETTERS • Reader’s Comments And Opinions

Like A Dino In The Sky • Misheard song lyrics – and our own alarming versions!

SMART ANIMALS • Are quick to learn new concepts

Strengthen Bonds With Your New Pet • It takes time for you to develop a relationship with your pet

8 Easy Ways To Improve HEART HEALTH • Keep your ticker on track with these simple changes to your diet and lifestyle

Teeth Grinding • This common condition damages your dental health

WORLD OF MEDICINE

Jane Fonda The Road To Wisdom • The legendary actress talks about the vital role that luck has played in her career

HOW TO BEAT BETES • Scientific breakthroughs are now helping to PREVENT the disease, and even put it into remission

ADRIFT • When his boat struck a reef and sank in the Caribbean, Don Cavers jumped on a life raft and watched as the ocean carried him away

LIFE’S LIKE THAT • Seeing The Funny Side

The Meat Pie • Our obsession with this meat-filled pastry often started at the school tuckshop

SEE THE WORLD… …DIFFERENTLY

Just Say NOTHING • Lutz Trabalski’s job at a state lottery is to give advice to ordinary people lucky enough to win millions. He tells Reader’s Digest why he believes confidentiality is key if you win

QUOTABLE QUOTES

STALKED BY AN AIRTAG • A gadget aimed at making our lives easier is now the perfect stalking tool if in the wrong hands

LAUGHTER • The Best Medicine

Take Up A Healthy Hobby • Making time for leisure activities can have a truly positive effect on your physical and mental wellbeing

The Perfect Salon? A BARBER SHOP

On Becoming A Flâneur • Cath Johnsen explores the romantic French notion that you don’t really know a city until you’ve been lost in it…

PHOTO Bombed! • Just when you think you have arranged the perfect shot, you are…

Extreme MEDICINE • Discover the incredible stories of the extreme-conditions medics swapping their prescription pads and stethoscopes for rafts and snake venom…

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

THE MOON HAS RISEN • As familiar as the moon may be, it is also very mysterious

If These CLIFFS Could Talk • The shores of Devon county in southern England tell a story of dinosaurs, Romans and much more

Portugal’s Schindler • Like Oskar Schindler, Portuguese diplomat ARISTIDES DE SOUSA MENDES helped save, at great personal risk, thousands from the Nazi regime

Courage Remembered

ONLINE • FIND THESE UNIQUE READS AT ReadersDigest.co.nz

RD RECOMMENDS

Empathetic PAIN • So this is weird… when long-term couples start to have the same health issues

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

FAMILY FUN

TRIVIA • Test Your General Knowledge

WORD POWER • The Beginning And The End