Trick or Treatment

Was Angela pulling my leg or what? Did she have psychic powers? Or was it all just quackery?

– Ginette McDonald on herbalist Angela's claims she threw a client's "bad energy" out the window

We need to change the kinds of food that we eat, moving away from the high fat, high calorie foods that we tend to like and moving far more towards fruit, vegetables and cereal foods, and also at the same time we need to, everybody needs to, increase the amount of physical exercise they get. And if we can change those balances I can guarantee that they're going to be a big improvement in the population's health.

– John Birkbeck from The Nutrition Foundation on the best way to achieve good health

Actually they drew me into them, I just walked in the shop one day and picked up one and said 'I really need that', and then when we looked up to see what it was for, it was the exact thing that was wrong with one of my dogs.

– Crystal lover Diana on what drew her to crystals

If it's that simple — if you can tell somebody's problems just by looking at them — then I think I'll go into hiding.

– Ginette McDonald reacts to naturopath Diana Tawharu's method of diagnosing ailments

Now my power tells me that's there's something in the ground that's upset you for 14 years...and I can take it off you right now.

– Ginette McDonald meets a tohunga at the Spirit Festival

I have just got over a bout of lung cancer, myself. I've been a smoker since I was 15 and I had to give it up about 16 days ago, and I diagnosed myself as having primary lung cancer and I cleared it, oh, probably about a day and a half ago.

– Colour therapist Colin Lambert on 'finding' and 'curing' his own cancer