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  • Does healthy food really cost more?

    … There is a perception that healthy food costs more – but does it really? It all depends …   Monitoring the price of foods allows us to see if a healthy diet is affordable, and to advocate for fiscal policies that encourage consumption of healthy foods and discourage consumption of less healthy …
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  • Thoughts on NZ Adopting an Aussie Community Health Programme … and Forthcoming Nutrition Policy Events

    … Tony Ryall visited Victoria, Australia , to examine their “Healthy Together Victoria” programme. This week, the Prime … NZ will adopt this programme, and it will be known as “Healthy Families New Zealand”. This blog post gives a high … here at Public Health Expert. The Australian programme has healthy nutrition as a large focus, but it also extends to …
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  • Strong public support for healthy food policies in Aotearoa

    … support government intervention to reduce the cost of healthy food. Additionally, 73% back free healthy school lunches, and 64% endorse a sugary drinks tax if the revenue supports affordable and available healthy food. The study underscores the public’s expectation …
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  • Expanding Ka Ora, Ka Ako is ‘bread and butter’ action to alleviate the cost-of-healthy-food crisis

    … whānau across Aotearoa New Zealand hard, is the cost-of-healthy-food crisis. Fruit and vegetable prices have … Doubling the reach of Ka Ora, Ka Ako, the free, healthy school lunches programme, from one quarter to at … high household food insecurity.     Rising cost of healthy food From June 2014 to March 2023, Stats NZ reported …
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  • Implementing healthy food environment policies in Aotearoa

    … Summary Food-EPI (Healthy Food Environment Policy Index) was recently conducted … but New Zealand falls short in many areas including for healthy food and drinks in all schools, fiscal policies … strategy and for people to have sufficient income to make healthy food choices with autonomy. Five policy actions and …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Improving the cost, composition and availability of foods can save lives

    … reducing the cost and increasing the availability of healthy food and reformulation of processed food. This blog … with less individual effort.     Reducing the cost of healthy food    Food prices are determinants of food choices … ā nau and undoubtedly impacts on their ability to choose healthy food. To reduce NCD, the WHO recommends subsidising …
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  • Where do the parties stand? A low carbon, healthy transport system

    … Government address the challenge of moving to a low carbon healthy transport system? In this Briefing we analyse … of asking political parties about their low carbon, healthy and equity-focussed transport policies show that, … a good start at addressing transport harms and promoting healthy, equitable and low carbon transport, other parties …
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  • Obesity at last on Government agenda, but will Healthy Families NZ be good enough ?

    … The Government announced the Healthy Families NZ initiative to tackle our escalating obesity crisis. It will be based on Healthy Together Victoria (HTV) which the Health Minister, … adapted for New Zealand, and will it work? The launch of Healthy Together Victoria: Victorian Minister for Health, Hon …
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  • Lessons from Canada for NZ: Carbon, Cycling, Tobacco, Nutrition and Cannabis

    … (iv) controls on food marketing directed at children; (v) healthy food guidelines; and (vi) cannabis law reform.   … a smaller proportion of food ads were classified as “less healthy” compared to the Ontario and Quebec English samples’ … fat Limit your consumption of alcohol Healthy eating lifestyle tips include: Be mindful of your eating habits Cook …
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  • Calculating cardiovascular risk with online calculators – scope for improvement?

    … – with health workers providing targeted advice on lifestyle change and the use of medications to lower blood … Such calculators could cover the following issues: Showing healthy or quality-adjusted years of life saved. The bottom … line with CVD risk reduction is gaining extra years of healthy life. Some of us have already produced software tools …
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