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A fat week – debates about saturated fat that will not go away
… Omega 6 are generally thought to be worse than omega 3 (e.g. they are inflammatory), at the ratios we currently see in … as usual’ diseases are dominating in the wider society (e.g. the incidence of cardiovascular disease has plummeted in … diabetes and cancer); the effectiveness of treatments (e.g. lipid lowering drugs) that cut across and nullify the …
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Why the New Zealand Government should reconsider abandoning denicotinised cigarettes
… visionary as measures become established best practice (e.g., Ireland with smokefree environments; Australia with plain … by reducing their nicotine content to a maximum of 0.8 mg/g; a reduction of over 90% compared to a regular cigarette. … 2 The nicotine in tobacco can be greatly reduced (e.g. by chemical extraction or gene editing) to produce very …
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Possible strategic approaches to achieve the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal
… of existing ‘mainstream’ best practice tobacco control e.g., enhanced mass media, extensions to smokefree policies, … tobacco control interventions from around the world e.g., plain packaging, banning additives and a minimum retail … general view is that higher increases in tobacco taxes (e.g., 20% annually) could be justified but only if accompanied …
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Where do the parties stand? A low carbon, healthy transport system
… are excluded from the benefits that transport brings (e.g. access to employment, to healthcare and to whānau … tools that: Are known to be insufficient to the task (e.g. the ACT Party’s reliance on the ETS as the sole mechanism … emissions 22,24 ) Are emissions intensive themselves (e.g. Labour Party’s plans for tunnelling 25 ) Generate more …
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Key findings in the 2021/22 NZ Health Survey: Continued rapid falls in smoking prevalence and increases in vaping
… the 2020/21 survey was adversely affected by COVID-19 (e.g., the sample size was reduced) and the extraordinary … The decrease in smoking was greater among Māori women e.g., current smoking prevalence fell from 35.0% to 20.0% while … pandemic resulted in a systematic change to the methods (e.g., to the sampling strategy, response rates or to the data …
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More than 147km – the transformative potential of the Wellington bike network plan
… out a lot of the network using temporary infrastructure (e.g., planter boxes) in the next 3 years, to be gradually hard … a lower average number of rain days each month (e.g., 7 in Wellington compared to 11 in Vancouver) and …
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The long shadow of war on the health of military personnel
… groups that have made it difficult to draw conclusions e.g., (2,3). However, a US study of those veterans who were … linked to an increased risk of coronary heart disease (e.g., this systematic review (9)) and to an increased risk of suicide (e.g., this systematic review (10)). Another systematic review …
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Taxing tobacco in NZ: What we know and what could be next
… NZ economy from reduced premature death among workers (e.g., from heart attacks and cancer), and from disability (e.g., strokes can prevent people returning to work). Further … adverse smoking impacts on infants and children (e.g., from low birth weight and asthma) that may harm long-term …
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How much revenue would a New Zealand sugary drink tax raise? And how might be best to do it?
… at soft drink sub-category level in New Zealand (e.g. for regular and diet drinks separately). Rather, we have … a tax directly tied to the sugar content in the drink, e.g. 40 cents per 100 grams of sugar. However, this may be … consumption. 4 Their third option was a volumetric tax, e.g. the option that FIZZ asked us to estimate the tax revenue …
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Lime E-Scooters – Avoiding a collision course with public health?
… in the transport sector by making shared transport (e.g., shared cars and cycles) available for hire to potential … a way for people to travel to and from public transport (e.g., bus stops and train stations). As yet, there are no data … riding these devices and safer usage practices evolve (e.g., regular helmet use). However, we need longer term data …
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