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04 Aug World Breastfeeding Week 1-7 August

Posted at 08:49h in Healthy babies and children by Alison Pask

Breastfeeding rates in New Zealand are increasing slowly, according to Plunket data released during World Breastfeeding Week (1-7 August). Plunket says in 2015 and in 2016, 87.5% of babies aged between 2 and 6 weeks received breast milk, a figure 1.5% higher than in 2013 and...

04 Aug It’s Good for me and my Whanau

Posted at 08:32h in Healthy Community by Alison Pask

Marae participation as a springboard for oranga The Atiawa ki Whakarongotai Charitable Trust recently instigated qualitative research to better understand the notion of iwi connectedness and the link with oranga. This paper reports of the findings of that research, which examined how connectedness is understood by...

01 Aug Overweight but unseen: a review of the underestimation of weight status and a visual normalization theory

Posted at 15:30h in Research by Alison Pask

Although overweight and obesity are widespread across most of the developed world, a considerable body of research has now accumulated, which suggests that adiposity often goes undetected. A substantial proportion of individuals with overweight or obesity do not identify they are overweight, and large numbers...

01 Aug Obesity is Like a Kererū on Berries

Posted at 13:41h in Healthy Community by Alison Pask

Te Miri Rangi shares views on Obesity from a Māori perspective "The lesson here is in order to avoid an early trip to the hāngi pit, intermittent fasting and reducing the ‘berries’ in your life will help you trim down and dodge that bird’s snare! Times of...

01 Aug Are we Feeding our Manuhiri to Death?

Posted at 12:39h in Healthy Community by Alison Pask

Te Miri Rangi (Ngāti Tūwharetoa) is the founder and author of Whakapapa Fridays, a blog dedicated to sharing a Māori perspective on health, physical activity, nutrition and wellbeing. He has a background in the delivery of health, sport and recreation initiatives underpinned by a Māori philosophy, and is...

24 Jul Nine Things New Zealand Must do to Tackle the Child Obesity Crisis

Posted at 15:34h in Research by Alison Pask

A panel of 71 independent and government experts have undertaken an evaluation of New Zealand Government food environment policies, compared to international best practice. This is the second such evaluation, the first being in 2014. In this blog we summarise the findings. There are some...

20 Jul Breastfeeding Peer Support In Rural New Zealand: The Views Of Peer Supporters

Posted at 11:00h in Healthy babies and children by Alison Pask

Authors Raewyn Johnson, Pauline Ansley, Fiona Doolan-Noble, Erin Turley, Tim Stokes have published this article in the Journal of Primary Health Care 9(2) 173-177 BACKGROUND: New Zealand (NZ) has a high rate of breastfeeding initiation, declining sharply during the first six months. Although there is a range of support...

14 Jul Physical Activity and Healthy Ageing: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of longitudinal cohort studies

Posted at 12:52h in Healthy Community by Alison Pask

Older people constitute a significant proportion of the total population and their number is projected to increase by more than half by 2050. This increasing probability of late survival comes with considerable individual, economic and social impact. Physical activity can influence the ageing process but...

14 Jul Stanford researchers find intriguing clues about obesity by counting steps via smartphones

Posted at 08:24h in Research by Alison Pask

Stanford researchers using smartphones to track the activity levels of hundreds of thousands of people around the globe made an intriguing discovery: In countries with little obesity, people mostly walked a similar amount per day. But big gaps between people who walked a lot and...

13 Jul Large health inequalities across England revealed

Posted at 15:39h in Research by Alison Pask

There are stark differences in how long people in different parts of England can expect to live a healthy life, according to a new report from the Office of National Statistics. Life expectancy in England has been increasing consistently since 1951, but varies by location. Men...

Author: Alison Pask