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18 Apr Education Review Office ( ERO): Food, Nutrition and Physical Activity in NZ Schools and Early Learning Services

Posted at 10:17h in Healthy Education by Alison Pask

ERO effective practice report" Food, Nutrition and Physical Activity in NZ Schools and Early Learning Services". ERO found that most schools and services were doing a good job of equipping young people with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to make healthy choices around food, nutrition...

27 Mar BMI keeps on going up – and reflections on the Diabesity Symposium

Posted at 09:25h in Research by Kim Tucker

Is body mass index (BMI) relentlessly increasing in NZ, or plateauing? In this blog we present trends in BMI by ethnicity in NZ going back to the 1980s. Over the last four decades the annual increase in BMI is linear, relentless increasing; no sign of a plateau,...

09 Mar Advertising Standards Authority new comprehensive Children and Young People’s Advertising Code

Posted at 11:05h in Key Documents by Kim Tucker

The ASA has adopted a new code following a recommendation from an independent panel. The new code replaces the Code for Advertising to Children and the Children’s Code for Advertising Food and for the first time will cover all advertising to children and young people. The...

30 Jan Healthy Futures

Posted at 12:29h in Healthy Community by Kim Tucker

Healthy Futures are a charitable trust that aims to improve the health of NZ children. This website provides evidenced-based resources, blogs and offers programmes to encourage healthy environments in schools, communities and workplaces....

16 Dec Newtown Basketball Court

Posted at 14:03h in Healthy Community by Alison Pask

Newtown community works together to create a safer basketball court (2015)....

14 Nov A Child for All Seasons Addressing Seasonal Variation in Children’s Physical Activity (UK)

Posted at 15:54h in Healthy Education by Alison Pask

This work from CEDAR describes seasonal variation in physical activity, exploring related behaviours, and investigating strategies to help children maintain their activity all year round (2016)....

09 Nov Feet First

Posted at 13:44h in Healthy Environments by Kim Tucker

Feet First resources support safe active travel to and from school. These include curriculum resources to use in lesson planning and support for active travel programmes....

09 Nov NZ Physical Activity Guidelines

Posted at 13:33h in Key Documents by Kim Tucker

The New Zealand Physical Activity Guidelines by the Ministry of Health outline the minimum levels of physical activity required to gain health benefits and ways to incorporate physical activity into everyday life. ...

08 Nov Australasian Child and Adolescent Obesity Research Network (AUS)

Posted at 15:54h in Research by Alison Pask

The Australasian Child and Adolescent Obesity Research Network (ACAORN) fosters and coordinates research collaboration among Australian and New Zealand child and adolescent obesity research groups....

08 Nov Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (USA)

Posted at 15:32h in Healthy Community by Alison Pask

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation supports a wide array of research and programs which are working to help build a national Culture of Health. ...

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