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  • The draft NZ Health Strategy: Will it enable New Zealanders to “live well, stay well and get well”?

    … benefits (9). The challenge of increasing levels of obesity is at least acknowledged and described. The word “obesity” gets 13 mentions, and the “Roadmap of Actions” … “implement a package of initiatives to prevent and manage obesity in children and young people up to 18 years of age”. …
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  • Implementing healthy food environment policies in Aotearoa

    … and implementation of policies and actions to prevent obesity and nutrition-related non-communicable diseases 3 . … national infrastructure support for prevention of obesity and diet-related diseases, in particular the lack of … a decade of inaction to make progress on prevention of obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases. Food-EPI …
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  • 6 teaspoons of sugar a day helps the diseases stay down, in a most challenging way

    … for health impacts comes from a meta-analysis of sugar and obesity  by Te Morenga, Mallard and Mann of Otago University, … policy option if, as a society, we want to lower rates of obesity, heart disease and dental decay (and the associated … of food taxes ). If we as civil society are serious about obesity (especially child obesity), nutrition-related …
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  • Death rates dropping – it is a good time to be alive

    … But it is also interesting to ponder in light of the obesity epidemic. Some fear that heart disease rates will rise again as the obesity epidemic takes hold; what is more likely is that the obesity epidemic will slow the rate of decline somewhat. …
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  • Children and young people and COVID-19: The urgent need for improved guidance in NZ

    … CYP have included the following: The true incidence of childhood COVID-19 has probably been underestimated because … unequal access to healthcare, and high prevalence of child obesity. 10 11 Māori and Pasifika have experienced … NZ if elimination fails Previous and current experience of childhood infectious diseases in Aotearoa paints a troubling …
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  • Would a sugary fizzy drink tax reduce health inequalities? Probably Yes

    … is suggestive that a tax on SSBs would help control obesity and hence benefit population health. Such a tax … to reduce sugar and satur The NZMA in its recent “Tackling Obesity” report calls for consideration of a SSB tax, and in … with SSBs (eg, diabetes – which is associated with obesity) are more common among low socioeconomic groups: …
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  • Limiting the size of single serve sugary drinks: New NZ study on health and cost impacts

    … (SSBs) internationally, due to their role in tooth decay, obesity and diabetes [1-3], their lack of beneficial … single serve SSBs could be an effective part of a suite of obesity prevention and sugar reduction interventions. Health … a positive effect on children’s dental health, rates of obesity and adolescent diabetes. Having a wide definition for …
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  • Dementia: Update on causes and prevention, including the role of COVID-19

    … and diabetes (e.g., diet, physical activity, control of obesity); preventing head injuries (e.g., from falls and … There are also twin-study data to show that overweight and obesity (without reference to diabetes) is a risk factor for …
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  • Dietary counselling – how effective and cost-effective is it?

    … (much) larger gains, and due to substantial reductions in obesity-related disease it is likely to be cost-saving. … often relates to weight management (to prevent or manage obesity-related diseases such as diabetes) but also to … (21 studies), and 15 other studies (mainly if overweight/ obesity, T2DM, hypertension). This review identified 36 …
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  • Ethnic inequalities in mortality in NZ and how to reduce them further

    … the largest single cause of health loss overall in NZ (7). Obesity is a likely driver for inequalities from CVD, … peoples (given much higher burdens of overweight and obesity (8)). Indeed, detailed analysis of both cancer … have actually widened most in the incidence of obesity-related cancers in NZ (particularly breast, …
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