Food Pricing
Sodium in Fast Food
SHOP
A Supermarket Healthy Options Project
- Taking GST off healthy food - Video
- Healthy food should be GST free in NZ - Audio
- TVNZ: Sweet treats entice shoppers
- NZ Herald: Least healthy products most popular at supermarket
- Dominion Post: Fat and sugar top of Kiwis' shopping lists
- Newstalk ZB: White bread and blue milk most popular
- HRC News Issue No. 55 March 2007 page 1: Healthy food choices for only a fraction more in cost
- Scoop: Ministry Welcomes Timely New Evidence On Nutrition
- TVNZ: Healthy food not much dearer
- NZ Herald: Healthy eating doesn't cost so much more
- Ministry of Health: Shopping for a healthy bargain
- The New Zealand Herald: Nutritionist sees discounts as key to a healthier diet
Healthy Housing Project
A study by a team from Auckland, Massey, Otago and Victoria universities and the Building Research Association has found that getting rid of unflued gas heaters can reduce the cost of treating asthma symptoms by about as much as the millions of dollars the country spends every year on new asthma medication. More>
Traffic Light Food Labelling
RELIQ
Te Piripohotanga
WIRED
A device used overseas as a replacement for smoking has been trialled for use in New Zealand.
- NZ Herald: Smoker wants e-ciggie nicotine at a shop near him
- NZ Herald: E-ciggie may help smokers to quit
- NZ Herald: Fake aims to kill the urge to puff
- NZ Herald: Electronic cigarette trial at Auckland uni looking for volunteers
- Radio Live: Lush drags on the E Ciggie (Audio)
- TV3: Electronic cigarette trial set to begin (Video)
- Yahoo News: Electronic cigarette to be tested on smokers
- NZ Herald: No smoke, no fire, just nicotine
- SmokeLess New Zealand: the Ruyan e-cigarette - a healthier choice for smokers
STOMP Wins TUANZ Award
Congratulations to all those involved in developing and trialling STOMP! STOMP has been awarded the TUANZ (Telecommunications Users Association of NZ) Innovations 2008 Healthcare Award. STOMP was entered by Healthphone for their commercial application of the programme. More>
mHealth
- Innovative mHealth research uses mobile phones to deliver support and information (See page 13 of PDF)
eGAME
- Video games can aid child weightloss- study (Video)
- Weight loss evident with interactive video games
- New Zealand Herald: Video games as good as exercise. More>
STOMP
Stop Smoking with Mobile Phones Trial:
Awards:
ENHANCE
Global Burden of Disease
Defying popular wisdom about wealthy countries and coronary disease, a new study has found that about 80 percent of the world’s deaths from high blood pressure occur in poor and middle-income countries.
- NY Times: Blood Pressure Is Most Lethal in Poor and Middle-Income Countries
- Pharmalive: Four Out of Five High Blood Pressure Related Deaths Occur in Developing World
- Times of India: High BP among world's biggest killers
- Reuters: Most high blood pressure in developing world: study
- The Press Association: Blood pressure deaths highlighted
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