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23 Apr The cost of baby-led vs. parent-led approaches to introducing complementary foods in New Zealand

Posted at 10:04h in Healthy babies and children by Kim Tucker

Baby-led approaches to complementary feeding promote intake of family foods rather than infant specific foods, from the start of the complementary feeding period, which advocates suggest should be less expensive. However, this has never been formally examined. We recently completed a 2-year randomised controlled trial...

23 Apr Food taxes and subsidies to protect health: relevance to Aotearoa New Zealand

Posted at 09:57h in Advocacy by Kim Tucker

The hazardous and obesogenic food environment are major contributors to health loss in Aotearoa New Zealand. Here we consider the potential use of food taxes and subsidies to protect health in this country. We find that each one of the 14 recent systematic reviews on the tax...

16 Apr Traditional vegetable diet lowers the risk of premature babies

Posted at 09:33h in Healthy babies and children by Kim Tucker

Traditional vegetable diet lowers the risk of premature babies It turns out we should follow our parents' advice when we’re thinking about becoming parents ourselves, with a study finding eating the traditional ‘three-vegies’ before pregnancy lowers the risk of a premature birth....

14 Apr Empowering whanau and families in Aotearoa New Zealand Against Covid-19 (A Health Promotion Tool)

Posted at 09:39h in Healthy Community by Kim Tucker

While we all stay home in order to stop Covid-19 and to save lives, our primary focus is our family and whanau wellbeing. Promoting health and wellbeing begins in the family and whanau where we live, love, learn, work, play and pray together. To build your whanau...

08 Apr A Christian perspective of food at Easter

Posted at 11:39h in Healthy Community by Alison Pask

There is so much more to food than eating and I enjoy learning about different traditions and people’s beliefs around food. I have a wonderful friend, Mary, who is close to 100 years old and she is willing to share her perspective on food at...

07 Apr Dr Nicki Jackson

Posted at 15:38h in Healthy Community by Alison Pask

Dr Nicki Jackson is the executive director of Alcohol Healthwatch. “My role is to inform strong action on alcohol in our country, through looking at what evidence will work to reduce harm. I love being able to have a voice for those who are affected by...

06 Apr Safe Food book review

Posted at 16:47h in Healthy Community by Alison Pask

Book Review – Safe Food - Fourth edition, 2019 by Pip Duncan Safe Food continues to provide sound food safety advice to students and foodservice workers in hospitality or residential catering situations. First published in 1992, this 4th edition has been updated to reflect the current...

06 Apr Liquor industry tantrum undermines effective regulation of pregnancy warning labels

Posted at 09:47h in Healthy Community by Kim Tucker

Alcohol Healthwatch is extremely disappointed that an evidence-based pregnancy warning label for alcohol products and packaging has been sent back to the drawing board....

06 Apr Understanding alcohol use and subsequent harms in young people: An evidence summary

Posted at 09:44h in Healthy Community by Kim Tucker

A large number of factors affect youth drinking and subsequent alcohol-related harms; this evidence review aimed to improve understanding about three specific focus areas: age of first drink, patterns and trajectories of drinking, and parental supply of alcohol. Literature reviews looked at the link between...

02 Apr The latest ANA Focus Newsletter

Posted at 15:13h in Resources by Alison Pask

Read the latest ANA Focus here Read ANA Focus 4 May 2020 here Read ANA Focus 8 April 2020 here Read ANA Focus 17 March 2020 here...

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