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  • Should you swap sugar for artificial sweetener? Maybe not if you’re a mouse, but what if you’re a human?

    … Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock lately, you’ll be aware that sugar and its negative … and their impact on body weight and metabolism – one a lab experiment on mice published in Nature that was widely … water supplemented with either glucose or sucrose (sugar). After 11 weeks, the mice fed sweeteners were displaying …
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  • Comparing health interventions in a meaningful way – Introducing the BODE3 Interactive League Table

    … cost-effectiveness – and potentially many other things.  A league table is a useful tool for researchers and … to ‘see at a glance’ how health sector interventions vary (often hugely) in the health gain they can achieve, and the … they could be in one year or 50 years, and so on, after the intervention commenced in our 2011 base-year. …
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  • Only eight more years to go to 2025: Time for the NZ Government to step up its tobacco endgame

    … Control , where we have estimated the future impacts of a range of proposed novel and substantive strategies that may … the reduction in smoking prevalence. These measures are often defined as ‘tobacco endgame strategies’ (4). Examples … of these benefits being accrued in the three decades after implementation (see Figure 2). While such an …
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  • Preventing falls can be very cost-effective in NZ – New study

    … We have just published a modelling study on exercise programmes in NZ to prevent … options. What did our new study find? We found that a home-based exercise programme generated the greatest health … such as: Expedited cataract surgery – since visual impairment is a risk factor for falls (see this Australian …
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  • COVID-19, Christmas, the New Year and Summer Holidays: What the NZ Government and individuals can do to minimise the risks

    … have lost their life to COVID-19. NZ is now in day 121 of a sustained Delta variant outbreak (figure 1). While daily … effectively, and also alter virulence, potentially making infection more serious and lethal. The World Health … vaccine is still somewhat effective with two doses, but after three doses (two shots + a booster) the vaccine’s …
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  • Urgent action needed to help eliminate cervical cancer in Aotearoa

    … Organization (WHO) has set an ambitious goal to eliminate a cancer as a public health problem. Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) committed … vaccine is safe and effective at protecting against HPV infection that causes almost all cases of cervical cancer …
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  • Smart party pill law makes tobacco & alcohol regulation look pathetic

    … ticket regulatory treatment. The promise is that if such a wide parliamentary consensus can be achieved on party … improve the regulation of other hazardous products with a much greater impact on public health. Consider this new law in more detail. A key principle is the requirement that approved psychoactive …
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  • Decades old nutrition data leave NZ in the dark – updated nutrition survey needed

    … Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) faces a critical information gap on what New Zealanders eat and our overall nutritional status due to a lack of recent national nutrition surveys.  The last adult … eating habits, nutrition and health.  We outline why a new national nutrition survey is needed and how the …
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  • Invisible and ignored: Why indoor air quality deserves our attention

    … is clear that clean indoor air reduces illness, improves cognitive function, productivity and prevents the spread of … 1 Unlike water or food contamination, poor air quality is often unseen, unable to be tasted or smelt. While food and … tend to happen only in wealthier institutions or after major outbreaks. Health implications  The health …
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  • Low-cost heart-healthy bread for NZ

    … to its relatively high cost at NZ$5). All loaves made in a home bread-making machine (Photography: Pascale Otis). This blog reports on a study we just published on optimising the design of bread … to commercially available breads in 15 countries from a heart health perspective, as well as being lower cost. Such …
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