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  • Nine things New Zealand must do to tackle the child obesity crisis

    … such policies. This is the main conclusion from the second Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-Epi) (5) … both their importance and likely achievability. Figure 1: Healthy food environment policy index (Food-Epi)(5) Key … foods Restricting unhealthy food promotion to children Healthy food policies in schools Infrastructure support Set …
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  • Action needed to halt New Zealand’s obesity epidemic: Themes from Big Food Symposium

    … increasing obesity epidemic. While they welcome the new Healthy Families NZ community-based initiative recently … labels on foods, and ensuring families can afford to eat a healthy diet. Without supplementing community action with … assist NZers to live in an environment that supported a healthy diet, making the healthy choice the easy choice. …
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  • A call for smart food policies to create an ‘appetite for health’

    … the policies which will improve access and availability of healthy diets at affordable prices. These solutions seem … made a declaration on Big Food’s influence on undermining healthy food policies 1 . The new network of nine university … governments by defining the international benchmarks for healthy food environments and monitoring the progress of …
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  • Media release: Can we move to a low carbon, healthy transport system?

    … fall short on policies that work towards low-carbon, healthy transport systems for this country according to … This Briefing - Where do the parties stand? A low carbon, healthy transport system - looks at the questions around … to what works to create a transport system that is healthy for the people and planet, Dr Shaw says the survey …
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  • “Appetite for Destruction”: A new book with attitude – but also strong science

    … fake food be easier to buy, prepare and eat compared to healthy food?). Morgan and Simmons, through their … is out of keeping with what a society needs to sustain a healthy culture and nation. A society that entices and … as we  will blog about on Thursday this week. Part of Infographic on fake food at Morgan Foundation website The one …
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  • The maths and ethics of minimising COVID-19 deaths in NZ

    … are flattening the epidemic curve, we need our young and healthy citizens keeping critical parts of the economy going … rates to build up herd immunity. But is asking our fit and healthy younger citizens to do this fair? And what is the … fall further – but again this will rely on other young healthy people having high infection rates and becoming …
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  • What can we learn from Healthy Housing Initiatives? New evidence from the Wellington Well Homes scheme

    … to ensure good quality housing that supports health. Healthy Housing Initiatives intervene to improve the homes of … (public) housing reduces hospitalisations (10). That’s why Healthy Housing Initiatives (HHIs) –  services aimed at … advocacy, practical interventions, and education for healthy housing, can make a real contribution to enhancing …
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  • Living longer, living healthier? Latest Official Report on independent life expectancy in NZ

    … health is increasing. And there are marked inequalities in healthy life expectancy. This sort of analysis, as hard as it … in good health. Under this scenario, both overall and healthy life expectancy has increased, the non-healthy expectation stays the same in absolute terms (6 …
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  • Food and beverage taxes for a healthier diet: The Pacific experience

    … an opportunity to fund such initiatives as extending free healthy school lunches and/or free dental care. The growing … in ways that address rates of NCDs and promote a healthy food environment. In NZ for example, this might … include extending funding for Ka Ora Ka Ako, the free healthy school lunches programme, funding free dental care …
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  • Ireland leads New Zealand in the battle against obesity

    … respectively in 2012/13 . The recent announcement of the Healthy Families NZ programme is welcome, but our dismal … children Calorie posting on menus Revised food pyramid and healthy eating guidelines Recent proposals focus on what are … sugar, salt, fat Code for food sponsorship and sport Healthy vending machines in schools Code relating to …
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