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  • Chewing the fat on a saturated fat tax

    … Associate Professor Nick Wilson, University of Otago Wellington An article we published last week … diet. We found that these meta-analyses supported this, eg, a 5% shift in dietary energy from saturated fats to …
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  • Avoidable hospitalisations: Helping our health system get through COVID-19

    … – we must also plan for other scenarios where thousands of New Zealanders are sick – including many urgently … the reduction of preventable injuries that currently take a toll on hospital and health resources. These include those … reduced time off work, improved productivity, improved mental health, 6 13 reduced gambling, and more successful …
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  • Walking and cycling for transport is good for physical activity levels in Kiwis!

    … Physical activity is good for health. Higher levels of physical activity are associated with reduced rates of breast and colon cancer, better mental health, lower obesity rates, lower heart disease, stroke (the list goes on). This blog looks at a new study we just published that found that New Zealanders …
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  • ACC turns 50: A more modern approach to injury prevention needed

    … health agencies, and government could enhance ACC’s role in promoting safer systems and advancing injury prevention strategies. That shift in direction would be a worthy advance to celebrate 50 years of serving Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). The Accident …
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  • The allure of a Virtual Supermarket for public health nutrition research

    … The Virtual Supermarket is a 3D computer model of a real supermarket that we started … fields has shown that virtual environments are frequently used to improve surgical technical skills, as a therapeutic …
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  • Stubbing out democracy: no Government mandate for smokefree repeal

    … Smokefree Aotearoa goal. We assess whether this action has a mandate and legitimacy. Repeal of the legislation was not put before the electorate in the recent election campaign and is inconsistent with …
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  • Vaping prevalence and trends: Important findings from 2023-24 NZ Health Survey

    … prevalence among adults aged ≥15 years increased from 3.5% in 2019/20 to 11.1% in 2023/24. Vaping prevalence was … and people living in neighbourhoods with higher levels of deprivation.  The findings call for detailed ongoing … products and also support people who smoke to switch to a nicotine source that poses fewer physical harms. Vapes …
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  • Why the New Zealand Government should reconsider abandoning denicotinised cigarettes

    … in clinical trials do not compensate for the lower levels of nicotine by smoking more and nor do they suffer severe … New Zealanders continue to die every year from smoking and a persistence of associated health inequities.  Introduction … are seen regardless of sex or gender, race/ethnicity, age, mental health status, and education or socioeconomic status. …
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  • The smokefree policies of political parties: Do they care about people who smoke?

    … In this time of Covid-19, helping people who smoke to quit their addiction … and most want to quit. 1 Being an ex-smoker decreases a huge range of respiratory, cardiovascular and other health … and parties fear of being labelled as promoting a ‘nanny state’. 16 17 Such stances overlook the fact that people …
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  • After the new law for smokefree cars for Kiwi kids, what next?

    … This blog discusses the passing of the Smoke-free Environments (Prohibiting Smoking in Motor … future smokefree possibilities in Aotearoa / New Zealand. A law providing smokefree cars for children is a matter for … there is clear evidence that smokefree car laws work (eg, from Canada, 17 18 California, 19 and England  20 ), it …
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