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About Us

Aider aims to transform everyday New Zealanders into motivated healthy individuals

In this era of increasing lifestyle induced illnesses , being informed and taking personal action now to decrease your long-term risks is very important. How to keep motivated on that path to wellness is the challenging factor!

Advice and personal motivation need to come together. Aider has been created to fill that crucial human gap, easily.

"Every person who joins the Aider programme is matched with a personal wellness motivator to help them reach their goals. Expert nutrition and exercise advice is then adapted to their specific needs and local environment."

Aider is an exciting development. By taking our programme into primary healthcare and communities we are the only service targeting everyday New Zealanders. This will make our commonsense programme accessible to the people who need it the most. It will also reduce the risk of chronic lifestyle illnesses like diabetes and heart disease.

 
 
Contact

Email

info@aider.co.nz

Post

PO Box 836
Whakatane 3158

Directors

Sally Carter
sally@aider.co.nz
021 364 584

Amy Carter
amy@aider.co.nz
021 391 903

Matthew Carter
matthew@aider.co.nz

 
 
 
The Program

Aider will take you on a 8-12 week programme either
face to face, by mail or online.

It's human nature to start a wellness programme with good intentions and then to lose steam. Aider understands that. Your personal wellness motivator is here to help you all the way to your goal - encouraging you to record, monitor and celebrate your progress. Here is how it works:

  • Connect with your personal wellness motivator to set your personal healthy lifestyle goals.
  • Receive a tailored plan, unique to your needs, covering eating,activity and motivational tips.
  • Receive weekly progress reviews and on-going adjustments to help you succeed.
  • Incentive checkpoints are planned during the programme - where you will be rewarded for making steady progress towards your goal.

Where possible your motivator will be a local person from your community so they can help link you in with other motivated people and give you ideas for exercise options you can enjoy where you live.

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Blog

15 Sep 2011
Aider Articles – Chocolate consumption and cardiometabolic disorders

After a hiatus aider returns, enticed back to journal reading by chocolate, a very important nutritional substance. An article was recently published in the BMJ looking at the possible protective effect of chocolate on cardiometabolic disorders. These include heart attack, stroke, diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Cocoa and chocolate are proposed to have anti-hypertensive, anti-inflammatory and [...]
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15 Aug 2011
Aider Actions – Get moving!

Hi there my Aider friends .. Over the last couple of weeks we’ve talked a lot about nutrition… In Aider Articles we’re often looking at studies about food and intake.  And in previous Aider Actions we’ve covered what food and how much food. We thought it was time to give you some information about exercising, [...]
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Team

Sally Carter
(FRNZCGP)

Sally Carter is a registered General Practitioner, currently working in Whakatane, NZ, while also completing postgraduate studies in nutrition. She is very passionate about ways she can contribute to the improved health of New Zealanders'.

Amy Carter
(B.Sp + L.S & B.Tchg)

Amy Carter studied towards her Sport & Leisure degree and then worked as a Secondary School PE Teacher. She is currently employed as a recreation facility manager in Pukekohe, while still maintaining a keen interest in fitness, sports and training.

Matthew Carter
 

Matthew Carter trained in Sport and Recreation and is currently working in Aquatics/Community Recreation. He has represented NZ in Baseball and plays Premier Cricket.

 
Contact us:
info@aider.co.nz
Amy Carter: 021 391 903
P.O. Box 836, Whakatane 3158