Tagged: vegetables

A quarter of all US food ends up in the bin - News

Jean Balchin • Apr 24, 2018 •

• consumerism,
• food,
• fruit,
• iets,
• irrigation water,
• New Zealand,
• product,
• US,
• vegetables,
• waste

I don’t know about you, but whenever I think of the United States and food, I imagine a heaped plate of chips, burgers and salad. Perhaps there’s a milkshake beside the plate too. I have a tremendous appetite, but even I know that I can’t eat everything. Huge plates of food leave behind huge piles of waste. US consumers … Read More

Dietary counselling – how effective and cost-effective is it? - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Mar 20, 2018 •

• blood pressure,
• BMI,
• cholesterol,
• Diet,
• dietary consultation,
• food,
• fruit,
• glucose level,
• HDL,
• Health,
• intensity,
• intervention,
• lipids,
• Obesity,
• physical activity,
• sodium intake,
• vegetables,
• waist,
• weight

Prof Nick Wilson, Dr Cristina Cleghorn, Dr Linda Cobiac, Dr Anja Mizdrak, Prof Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Prof Tony Blakely In this blog we consider recent literature (particularly reviews) on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of dietary counselling as a health intervention. Most studies suggest that dietary counselling is effective though the benefits are typically modest and short-term. The literature on cost-effectiveness … Read More

What public health lessons can NZ still learn from the United States? - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Jan 30, 2018 •

• alcohol consumption,
• bike lanes,
• commuting,
• Mass media,
• media government,
• New Zealand,
• pregnancy,
• public health,
• Smoking,
• Sugar Tax,
• taxation,
• tobacco industry,
• United States,
• vegetables

Prof Nick Wilson, A/Prof George Thomson The United States has many major health problems – including declining life expectancy and an exorbitantly expensive health care system. However, the large number of state and local governments provide a wealth of potential lessons that NZ could learn from. In this blog we briefly consider some of these, particularly in the domains of … Read More

Go native: why we need ‘wildlife allotments’ to bring species back to the ‘burbs - Guest Work

Guest Author • Jan 11, 2017 •

• cities,
• community gardens,
• ecosystems,
• gardening,
• native wildlife,
• Planning,
• urban planning,
• vegetables

By Lizzy Lowe, University of Auckland and Margaret Stanley, University of Auckland As urban populations around the globe skyrocket and the demand for housing grows, space is increasingly at a premium in cities. Unfortunately, despite some notable efforts to include green space in cities, native wildlife is not often a priority for urban planners, despite research … Read More

And then came the conspiracy theories…. - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Jun 08, 2011 •

• Conspiracy,
• e coli,
• Health Ranger,
• Mike Adams,
• outbreak,
• vegetables

Forensic evidence emerges that European e.coli superbug was bioengineered to produce human fatalities So says Mike Adams, also known as the ‘Health Ranger’, a “natural health researcher, author and award-winning journalist with a mission to teach personal and planetary health to the public“. He has just posted this astonishing article on his blog. Where do we begin? Lets start … Read More

The veggie-burger disease? - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • May 31, 2011 •

• e coli,
• EHEC,
• Escherichia coli,
• food poisoning,
• HUS,
• O157,
• salad,
• STEC,
• vegetables

Escherichia coli, better known as E. coli, is a common inhabitant of the human gut. Most E. coli strains are harmless but a few can cause serious illness and even death. One such group, known as enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) or Shiga-toxin producing E. coli (STEC), cause bloody diarrhoea, and in some people, Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (HUS) which … Read More