Fight the Obesity Epidemic » Obesity News http://foe.org.nz Stop our children developing type 2 diabetes. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:59:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Obesity News 156 http://foe.org.nz/2012/01/29/obesity-news-156/ http://foe.org.nz/2012/01/29/obesity-news-156/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:54:53 +0000 Robin http://foe.org.nz/?p=6632 Obesity News is FOE’s regular round-up of obesity-prevention news from around the world.

Read the 24 January 2012 issue

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Read the 9 January 2012 issue

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It includes:

  • Australian and New Zealand ministers’ response to the food labelling review
  • reaction from FOE and other health, consumer and industry groups.

Read the 21 December 2011 issue

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  • New Zealand political parties views on several obesity prevention issues
  • Results from the Parents Voice survey on how the govenment could improve healthy eating.

    • Read the 25 November 2011 issue

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    Read the 6 November 2011 issue

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    It has links to the following stories – and many others:

    • The UN summit on non-communicable diseases in New York, 19-20 September
    • The latest NZ nutrition survey
    • An article about FOE spokesperson, Dr Robyn Toomath

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    Read the 3 October 2011 issue

    A special supplement of Obesity News has links to stories about the UN Summit on non-communicable diseases
    Read the 3 October 2011 supplement.

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    It has links to the following stories – and many others:

    • An excellent video from Otago University on obesity prevention
    • A special obesity series in the Lancet
    • The UN summit on non-communicable diseases in New York, 19-20 September

    Read the 14 September 2011 issue.

    A special supplement of Obesity News has links to stories about the UN Summit on non-communicable diseases

    Read the 14 September 2011 supplement.

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    Read the 18 August issue.

    It has links to these stories – and many others:

    • Parents Voice – a website for New Zealanders who want to improve children’s food and physical environments
    • September’s UN summit on non-communicable diseases in New York
    • A letter in the NZ Medical Journal about tackling type 2 diabetes.
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    Read the 11 May issue

    It has links to these stories – and many others:

    • Some speakers at Agencies for Nutrition Action’s conference in Auckland got considerable media coverage.
    • In Australia, the Obesity Policy Coalition has just released a blueprint to restrict junk food advertising.
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    Read the 12 April issue

    Two stories about the same issue – the release of Sanitarium’s proposed traffic light food labelling system and KFC’s new burger – raised headlines on both sides of the Tasman recently.

    Obesity News includes links to those stories – and many others.

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