Kai Town came about following a national Healthy Families focus on the kaupapa of kai. Armed with our learning from a previous Healthy Families Far North kai project in Kaikohe, a design challenge question was posed that was “How might we flood Kaitāia with an...
A team of NZ researchers have investigated the effects of food processing, such as milling, on the health benefits of whole grains, using a small trial of 28 adults with type 2 diabetes. Participants ate minimally-processed wholegrain foods including wholegrain oats and chunky grainy bread...
The 2020 Global Nutrition Report calls on governments, businesses and civil society to step up efforts to address malnutrition in all its forms and tackle injustices in food and health systems. This report looks beyond global and national patterns, revealing significant inequalities in nutrition outcomes within countries...
The first webinar presents the evidence from moving people from cars to active transport and explores how to have effective conversations about change in transport systems and the benefits of reducing car dependency as we shape more vibrant, sustainable and healthy communities....
This research summarises the outcomes from a structured, church-based, culturally tailored lifestyle intervention showed a number of improvements in diabetes risk among Samoans in Sydney. The intervention, however, requires more rigorous testing in a larger randomised controlled trial over a longer time period....
The research concluded the beneficial effect of green tea consumption on cancer prevention remains unproven. Caution is advised regarding supplementation with high-dose green tea extracts due to the possible adverse effects....
The importance of positive wellbeing has been highlighted as we experience life during COVID-19. Our ability to socialise with friends and family and to live and work normally changed massively after the 2020 outbreak. The combination of stress and uncertainty in our lives can all affect our mental...
The Government, in its 2020 Budget announced on Thursday, promised to spend $220 million on the free school lunch programme, feeding an additional 200,000 children and creating an estimated 2000 jobs. The school lunch programme, launched in 2019, currently feeds 8000 children....
The World Health Organization recommends tummy time for infants because of the benefits of improved motor development and reduced likelihood of plagiocephaly. Because of poor uptake of these recommendations, the association of tummy time with other health outcomes requires further investigation. The objective of this...
The importance of positive wellbeing has been highlighted as we experience life during COVID-19. Our ability to socialise with friends and family and to live and work normally has changed massively since January 2020. In 2018 nearly 1 in 4 New Zealand adults reported experiencing ‘poor’...
