Activity & Nutrition Aotearoa |

02 Nov Kawea ake te wero: Enabling everyone in Aotearoa to eat well

Posted at 16:31h in Evidence Snapshots by Margaret McLachlan

Everyone in Aotearoa New Zealand has a right to live, grow, learn, and work in an environment that provides access to healthy, affordable, and safe food. ANA is a national organisation with a vision that everyone in New Zealand can and does eat well and...

02 Nov Great Media

Posted at 14:09h by Margaret McLachlan

Great Media: How to use the media to tell your story. Speaker: Niki Bezzant Click Read More to view the webinar and see the slides.

29 Oct Junk Food on Demand: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Nutritional Quality of Popular Online Food Delivery Outlets in Australia and New Zealand

Posted at 12:56h in Resources, Healthy Environments by Kim Tucker

This study of the nutritional quality of online food delivery in Auckland and Sydney, found that the most popular food outlets on the market-leading online food delivery service are unhealthy and popular menu items are mostly discretionary foods. Read research Listen to panel discussion

29 Oct Hawke’s Bay uniquely poised to do free school lunches right

Posted at 12:53h in Resources, Healthy Education by Kim Tucker

“Providing a free school lunch isn’t just about providing food but should be about creating a “‘values-based system’ where children’s hauora (health and wellbeing) is a priority,” says Pippa McKelvie-Sebileau, the project co-ordinator of Nourishing Hawke’s Bay, He wairua tō te kai. The schools which have done this...

29 Oct Nutritional Aspects of Commercially Available Complementary Foods in New Zealand Supermarkets

Posted at 12:51h in Resources, Healthy babies and children by Kim Tucker

This research paper recommends: If children’s diets include commercially available complementary foods then non-commercial meals must be offered as well. This will help meet nutritional guidelines related to the introduction of common food allergens, diversity of flavours, and complex textures for infants and toddlers. Read paper

29 Oct Interventions for obesity among schoolchildren: A systematic review and meta-analyses

Posted at 12:47h in Resources, Healthy babies and children by Kim Tucker

This report assessed the effectiveness of interventions for childhood overweight and obesity and found that current interventions for the management of obesity among schoolchildren on weight-related outcomes were inconclusive. However, behavioural lifestyle interventions by interdisciplinary teams and family involvement can help curb obesity among schoolchildren. Read report

29 Oct Combined associations of body mass index and adherence to a Mediterranean-like diet with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: A cohort study

Posted at 11:46h in Healthy Community, Resources by Kim Tucker

When it comes to predicting health risk, what’s more important: what you eat or what you weigh? It looks like it could be the former, according to a large new study from Sweden Read study

29 Oct Impact of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Warning Labels on Consumer Behaviors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Posted at 11:38h in Healthy Environments, Resources by Kim Tucker

Sugar-sweetened beverage warning labels were effective in dissuading consumers from choosing them, a systematic review and meta analysis has found. Graphics with health effect labels showed the largest impact. Read Review

29 Oct New warning labels now required on packaged foods in Mexico

Posted at 11:35h in Healthy Environments, Resources by Kim Tucker

Mexico has introduced a new food warning label law, which requires black informational octagons to be placed on packaged foods that are high in saturated fat, trans fat, sugar, sodium or calories, In addition, products containing caffeine and sweeteners must bear warning labels indicating that they should...

29 Oct Food sources of fructose-containing sugars and glycaemic control: systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled intervention studies

Posted at 11:30h in Research, Resources by Kim Tucker

This meta-analysis examined 155 controlled intervention studies assessing the effect of different food sources of fructose-containing sugars on glycaemic control in over 5,000 people with and without diabetes. This paper reinforces that most food sources of fructose-containing sugars do not have a harmful effect on glycaemic...

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