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  • Mounting complexities in the dietary salt & health relationship

    … on dietary salt and health has recently been reported in the New England Journal of Medicine . While reinforcing … hazardous to health – an increased hazard was also found for low intakes of salt (i.e., a “J-shaped” or “U-shaped” … is that the increased cardiovascular risk was estimated to only start increasing from the lowest estimated risk level …
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  • Progress on reducing retail availability of sugary drinks in NZ

    … , Mexico and Pacific , Open letter to Cabinet Ministers for sugary drinks tax ). A comprehensive approach to … a survey in 2015 apparently showed 10% are now water-only, and just 5% still sell full-sugar ‘fizzy’ drinks. One … (as are SSBs) and so cause dental erosion. This then makes the teeth more susceptible to decay (11, 12). Also, …
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  • Standardised packaging: A new era in reducing tobacco marketing in NZ

    … standardised, or plain, packages. In this blog, we discuss the importance of developing an on-going monitoring and … the brand livery formerly conveyed on tobacco packaging.  For decades, tobacco companies have used brand imagery to … however, evaluating these measures is also vital, not only to check on progress, but also to provide evidence that …
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  • Google Street View – A Useful Research Tool?

    … Looking at Google Street View can be amusing – as with the image of a cow with its face blurred out by Google’s algorithm for anonymising humans ( see here ). But this tool can help … provision in childrens’ playgrounds. But GSV is often only able to show features of parks and playgrounds that are …
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  • Improving the health of our children: Project Energize bang for the health $

    … blog by Professor Elaine Rush, in which she overviews the recent Budget from a child health perspective, and then … f or Project Energize]. The highlight of the 2014 Budget for children was $90 million to make GP visits and … looks after a cluster of 8 to 12 schools and shares their time between supporting and showing how the children can eat …
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  • The Two-Faced Tobacco Industry: Transformation and Cigarillos

    … trusted industries, with one study finding they ranked only slightly higher in trust than used-car salespeople. 1 … years, defendants lied, misrepresented, and deceived the American public, including smokers and the  young people they … products were harmful and often fatal, and to compensate for smoking’s loss of social acceptability, 4 tobacco …
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  • Home modification to reduce falls – appears cost-effective in NZ

    … falls in multiple different settings) . Nevertheless, for falls prevention in older people in the community there … falls prevention results we have modelled). Targeting HSAM only to people age 65+ or 75+ with previous injurious falls … is that NZ could potentially benefit from research that makes head-to-head comparisons of HSAM with exercise …
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  • The Smokefree Generation: Perspectives from young people

    … date, which is proposed as 01 January 2009. 2 Rationale for an SFG policy While age restriction policies have helped … regular (i.e., at least monthly) smoking, compared with only 2.7% of their NZ European peers. 3 Furthermore, evidence … claimed the SFG amounts to prohibition; British American Tobacco stated the SFG removed young people’s “ …
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  • Making tobacco less available is both necessary and feasible – New NZ study

    … In our recently published work, we studied the impact of the NZ Government preventing new retail outlets … these results into the context of tobacco control options for NZ. Across the globe we’re seeing a stream of new … convenience stores, service stations and liquor stores only), and the rate at which these stores naturally closed or …
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  • Can oral tobacco and nicotine products help people to stop smoking?

    … Nicotine is the main component of cigarettes that makes them addictive. Providing an alternative source of nicotine for the short-term relief of withdrawal symptoms or as a … classified as smoking cessation aids.  Policymakers should only expand the nicotine marketplace when they have robust …
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