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“Appetite for Destruction”: A new book with attitude – but also strong science
… Morgan and Simmons then turn their minds to solutions. No surprises here to public health people and readers of the … eating prescriptions to parallel green prescriptions – no quibble there; and a carefully crafted package of … since the book was sent to the publisher. Tony Blakely has no financial interest in the book, or the Morgan Foundation, …
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The Island Bay cycleway – Terribly important and nothing new
… Council following 18 months of consultation.) There was no problem in the first place, say others. Or, it makes the … commons – they belong to everyone and they belong to no-one in particular. Everybody benefits from access, but … vehicle, but it hasn’t always been like this . There was no such thing as jaywalking in Lower Queen Street in Auckland …
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Will liberalising nicotine availability increase quitting?
… Cabinet paper provides more background and explains that “ no restrictions are proposed on where e-cigarettes can be … pharmacies , would send a clear message that tobacco is no ordinary product. In addition, making e-cigarettes and … experience. It is not clear how retail staff with no experience of vaping or knowledge of addiction will help …
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Mounting complexities in the dietary salt & health relationship
… limitations with the new O’Donnell et al study But no study is perfect, and the limitations with this new study … excluded people with any pre-existing CVD, and it made no substantive difference to findings. But, it would have … sodium intake would be scientifically superior. There is no obvious mechanism for why low sodium intakes might be …
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Reducing tobacco retail availability: counterarguments to industry claims
… an unprecedented scale, to be sold anywhere and by anyone. No sooner had the Government proposed reducing tobacco retail … potential economic impact on small retailers if they were no longer able to sell tobacco. The NZ Association of …
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Reducing salt in food good for health and NZ’s health budget – New research
… to lower salt in food by about 10% a year with virtually no one noticing. Indeed, there is even some research … (which we reviewed in our paper [ 4 ]), there were no big surprises in our results. Indeed, there is now a quite … in scenario analyses in the main paper we also considered no discounting and 6% discount rate. In summary, there are …
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Getting the Marketing Mix Right: A Commentary on NZ’s Forthcoming Vaping Regulations
… campaign run for Vype (now Vuse), illustrated below), will no longer be possible. Charge beyond with the new Vype ePod … sporting events, such as the activities shown below, will no longer be possible; Section 33 prohibits supply of free … flavours popular with children and young people will no longer be available from these outlets, which will be …
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Does healthy food really cost more?
… steeper for healthy food. Price metrics There is currently no consensus in the literature about the best way to measure … the NZ Adult Nutrition Survey. However there is currently no routine monitoring which compares the cost of healthy food to unhealthy food, and there is no consensus on which price metric to use. Instead, the cost …
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Media release: Urgent action needed: Aotearoa must accelerate efforts to eliminate cervical cancer
… cervical cancer and help create a future where almost no one in Aotearoa NZ dies from this now-preventable disease. … in this country until all groups achieve elimination and no one is left behind” Dr Gregory says the Government needs …
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FoodSwitch. Smartphone consumers beat industry to better labeling
… most easily using a traffic light label system. There is no evidence for the new star system and, due to challenges changing labels in the real world, no robust evidence (i.e. a real-world studies) for whether … led the development of the NZ FoodSwitch App. There is no direct financial gain for NIHI in FoodSwitch or related …
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