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  • Cycling and walking in six NZ cities: Where are we at?

    … environment and the economy (1-3). But how well are cities in NZ doing in this area? In this new study , which is a baseline … varied by city. Surprisingly, climates with more rain, colder temperatures and higher wind speeds are …
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  • Standardised packaging: A new era in reducing tobacco marketing in NZ

    … From today, all tobacco products in New Zealand will start appearing in standardised, or plain, packages. In this blog, we discuss the importance of developing an …
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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 … 95% follow-up of subjects, 3.7 years of follow-up on average, it considered dietary potassium intake as well, and … J-shaped curve , it is difficult to posit that people with average salt consumption have better profiles on other risk …
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  • Protecting children and young people from unethical junk food marketing: Upgrading the advertising codes

    …   Figure 1: McDonald’s supporting junior football in New Zealand – … the current review of the voluntary Advertising Codes in NZ does present another opportunity for the food industry … to reduce New Zealand’s unacceptably high rates of obesity in children and young people (2).   Kiwis want tougher …
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  • Aotearoa New Zealand’s unhealthy food environment needs more policy action

    … promoted, so have the potential to address inequities in health.   INFORMAS (the International Network for Food and … from 2014 to 2017 1 concluded that the food environment in NZ is largely unhealthy. Since then, there have been a few … innovative food policy with NZ is falling behind. In this blog we discuss the healthiness of the NZ food …
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  • Upgrade of NZ’s COVID-19 Alert Levels Needed to Help Regain NZ’s Elimination Status

    … In this blog we comment on the current COVID-19 situation globally and in NZ. We focus on potential revisions to NZ’s Alert Level … infectious and is causing major health and economic damage in most countries around the world. Nevertheless, a number of …
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  • The case for banning cigarette filters

    … tobacco products less addictive and less appealing”. In this blog, we examine the Government’s specific proposal … first introduced to create a barrier between the tobacco in a cigarette stick and a smoker’s mouth (though cigarette … suggested filters provided throat protection, as seen in the Craven A advertisement, which claims the brand was: …
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  • How much revenue would a New Zealand sugary drink tax raise? And how might be best to do it?

    … and Cliona Ni Mhurchu Last week a FIZZ symposium was run in Auckland. A key focus was moving New Zealand towards … to a percentage change for each drink category given its average price per litre. Finally, as the tax is relatively …   NZ consumption in 2017 (million litres) 178 94 36 10   Average NZ price in 2016 ($ per litre) 2 2.8 5.5 5   % …
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  • The Brits are doing it: likely health benefits from a levy on soft drinks

    … today finds that the UK soft drink levy being introduced in 2017 is likely to benefit health (reduced obesity, … a range of different Drinks Industry responses. In this Blog we comment on these results and the possible … like New Zealand. Before Brexit, the Cameron Government in the UK announced it was taking obesity seriously – well, …
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  • Advance Care Planning – good for patient care and better use of health dollars?

    … and planning for future health care and end of life care. In its delivery, this seems a very clinically focussed, … a lot. We know that we spend around seven times more in the last year of life than the average spent in all other years of a patient’s life (2). …
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