Snapshot - Food Marketing
Food marketing drives out healthy option messages Childhood is a key time to promote life-long healthy eating habits, with parents and society having a responsibility to ensure children thrive. Yet food and beverage marketing also influence children’s eating habits with messages to consume more products high in sugar, fat and salt. The result – poorer health outcomes. Promotion of junk food is considered a significant contributor to childhood obesity. Agencies for Action Nutrition has...
Food Environments And Marketing
Growing Healthy Communities
Councils have role improving access to good food The Growing Healthy Communities Food Security Toolkit offers a range of solutions for councils to support the supply of healthy food in communities, whilst staying within local government guidelines. Community groups can use the toolkit to advocate for affordable, healthy, safe and sustainable food sources. The Toi Te Ora toolkit covers four spheres of influence to improve food security: Collaboration, Community Capacity, Supportive Environmen...
Streets Parks and Places
Paving the way to safer streets
Paving the way to safer streets Reclaiming streets in Māngere Central for cyclists and pedestrians offers many potential benefits beyond improving crash rates. Future Streets or Te Ara Mua is a $7 million traffic safety project with additional spin-offs - getting people biking and walking to local amenities, improving air quality and encouraging children to play outside. The joint initiative, involving Auckland Transport, four universities, ACC, NZTA, MBIE and the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local B...
Resources
Submission to the WHO on ending childhood obesity
Submission to the WHO Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity We agree with the report, but we'd also like to see a range of other actions to improve the food environment for our children. These would include working with manufacturers on reducing portion sizes and supporting healthy food policies in a range of settings such as churches. See our submission...
Step it Up prompts people up stairs in Auckland hospitals
Work it in work hours Feet stickers leading staff and visitors to stairwells have resulted in more people climbing steps around the region's hospitals. The three DHBs have run a Step it Up stairclimbing campaign over winter, with some positive change in buildings with visible stairwells. Hospital sites with stairs that are hidden or less convenient were less likely to see people choosing the stairs over the lifts, proving it is difficult for posters and prompts to overcome bad building de...
Pasifika families connect through physical challenge
Cousins take their health and fitness seriously - by having fun Twenty five cousins from seven households have designed their first annual fitness challenge, choosing to focus on reconnecting, being active and being healthy. As part of the challenge, the members met weekly to complete a physical activity, with responsibility of organising a challenge falling on a different family member every time. The challenges in the past two years ranged from runs around parks and reserves like Totara Par...
Wider economic and social costs of obesity
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