No statistician is going to quibble about the association between obesity and lifestyle diseases such as Type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease and some forms of cancer, or that being obese affects how people feel about themselves and interact with others. A healthy weight is determined by a body mass index BMI score of between 20 and A value above 25 indicates that you may be overweight, and above 30 that you may be very overweight obese.
Fifty-two percent of New Zealanders are overweight or obese, and we are getting fatter. Between and adult obesity increased by 55 percent. In Ministry of Health was projecting that by it will have risen by a further 70 percent. Why is this? Simply put, our calorific consumption has risen without our choosing to exercise any more than we did.
The increase in calories is thought to be largely due to energy-dense snack foods, convenience or fast foods and sweetened drinks. This is a global trend. Typically the Americans — whose leads we usually end up following — are consuming more and more calories, growing ever more obese and all while endlessly obsessing about finding just the right diet! We are being endangered by our prosperity. By the cars, remotes, televisions — particularly televisions — and computers that encourage sedentary behaviour.
By a social, economic and physical environment that promotes the consumption of energy-dense recreational foods. By new products, larger portions and the advertising to children. How can you counter that? Would you like that supersized? Efforts to address the obesity crisis need to focus on balancing our eating, physical activity and sedentary behaviours.
The challenge is to gain a greater understanding of how these eating-related behaviours manifest. Fat intake, for example, is not a single behaviour but the product of a multitude of eating and other food-related behaviours. How do we change a lifetime of culturally shaped and socially defined habits?
In an attempt to curb the rising tide of obesity an initiative to integrate healthy eating and physical activity has been instigated by the Ministry of Health. In the discussion document Healthy Action —Healthy Eating the Ministry proposes a number of strategies for New Zealanders to achieve and maintain a healthy weight. There have, needless to say, been such exercises before. The politics of obesity demand major changes in our thinking about food and physical activity. We need to truly believe that healthy eating and frolicking outdoors are more fun than gorging ourselves in front Dr Carol Wham is an expert in paediatric nutrition, public health nutrition and nutrition marketing.
The satellite, the initiative of an amateur satellite group, will piggyback on the launch of a larger Russian satellite. KiwiSat, a cube-shaped satellite slightly larger than a basket ball and weighing 5—10kg, will have an km polar orbit. The satellite will connect global amateur radio stations and provide space for a scientific experiment. Senior physics lecturer Dr Scott Whineray is providing technical support. KiwiSat will employ a series of pulse-emitting coils in place of magnets to control its motion and optimally deploy its solar panels.
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The gift, from the late Lovell Clark, was presented to the University recently by his wife, Berys, who continues to raise calves for the beef industry on her Hunua property. The money will be used for scholarships targeted at applied science, sciences and business students.
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Mr Clark had a passion for learning although he had received little formal education. Throughout his life as a farmer he studied informally, concentrating on agriculture and business. Professors Hoek and Gendall conducted a mail survey of the general public. When asked if DTCA should be banned, nearly 70 percent of those surveyed opposed or strongly opposed this proposition, and only 11 percent supported or strongly supported it.
The survey achieved a 64 percent response rate. The sample of more than respondents was carefully drawn to ensure it properly reflected the New Zealand adult population. The survey results may be seen as a necessary corrective to some other less rigorously obtained information about attitudes to the DTCA of prescription medicines in New Zealand.
This money will help them gain an education.
Their generosity will help many students throughout their academic careers and we hope will encourage others into tertiary education. Absent Dr Te Kani Kingi. United Nations handbook design Graphic design s t u d e n t s a r e continuing their winning ways at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by designing the second United Nations Handbook in succession. Last year Grace Yen-Yin came up with the winning design. This year Karena Joe found favour. The Ministry has been printing the Handbook — regarded as the standard UN reference guide — annually since It is widely distributed throughout the world.
Until now, the only undergraduate course has been at Canterbury University. The new programme will almost double the number of speech language therapists being trained in New Zealand each year. New Zealand currently has a shortage. The graduates of the four-year Bachelor of Speech and Language Therapy are expected to find work in medicine, teaching, rehabilitation and geriatrics.
Twenty five first-year students enter the course in Second e-centre to be built A second e-centre business incubator is to be built next to the current e-centre at the Albany campus. The decision to build a second centre follows a phenomenal growth in tenant numbers.
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Fighting off the flu Amphetamine use up Amphetamine use has doubled over the last three years, making stimulants the second-most popular illicit drugs in New Zealand after cannabis, according to a new study. The study, published in the New Zealand Medical Journal, found that the use of stimulants -- which includes uppers, speed, amphetamine and methamphetamine -- rose from 2. The biggest users of stimulants were 20 to 24year-olds, with Use has quadrupled in men aged 15 to 17, up from 1.
A total of 3. Australian studies have found amphetamine users experience a range of physical and psychological problems, including poor appetite, fatigue, racing heart, trouble sleeping, depression, anxiety, paranoia and hallucinations. Many countries in Western Europe experienced a peak in amphetamine use in the mids. There is likely to be a stiffening of the law relating to amphetamine use and manufacture in New Zealand. Anthrax, smallpox or the flu: which has been the biggest killer in the last century?
No contest: the flu by a clear margin. In —19 a particularly virulent strain killed between 20 and 40 million people: more than died in World War I. So alarm bells rang when in a strain of avian flu among chickens in Hong Kong leapt to humans, infecting 18 people and killing six.
Of the three criteria for a major epidemic — the number of people who have never been exposed to the virus, virulence, and the ability to spread person to person — the strain failed only the last. PhD research student Nina Kung has been working with the University of Hong Kong to reduce the risk of a human epidemic arising.
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Kung, who is of Taiwanese extraction and has been learning Mandarin, has spent many days in the markets observing the dynamics of the chicken population. The chickens are tested for viral antibodies though this tests for the reaction against the disease rather than the virus itself and on two occasions, in and again in , the Hong Kong government has culled all of the chickens on the island.
Achieving sustainable employment The Government is funding a Massey research team to look at ways to sustain employment in the future. The aim is to find ways to generate sustainable employment, including how best to match skills, training and education to future job opportunities. The study will include a survey of New Zealanders and in-depth employment history interviews with people aged 15 to 34 years in the Manawatu, Gisborne, Auckland and Wellington, where employers will also be surveyed.
Chair in sport to be established The establishment of a chair in sport has been approved by the Massey Council. Sport programmes have been run by Massey for more than a decade and the Palmerston North campus boasts an impressive cluster of sports facilities: the adidas Institute of Rugby, the athletics track and the High Performance Laboratory. Further health and education programmes are offered through the College of Education.
The new chair will help to coordinate the offerings across the colleges. It will also provide a better strategic focus to the use and further development of the sports and laboratory facilities, especially on the Palmerston North campus. The study will focus on the prevention of fall injuries, and will involve the participation of industry. The research aims to identify key fall injury risk factors and effective safety interventions for a number of specific high-risk tasks within these specific sectors.
The study will be completed in August In the years since its invention, the zoetrope — one of the first animation devices — has lost none of its magic. Maybe it is the more magical for being a simple contrivance of tin, card and Indian ink in an age of flat screens and DVDs. When Slater, a media studies lecturer, teaches the history of the moving image, he brings in the zoetrope. The zoetrope, explains Slater, is a persistence-ofvision toy. Persistence of vision will be familiar to anyone who has traced their name in the dark with a sparkler: the eye retains momentary impression of a stimulus after the source has disappeared or moved on.
The flicker book works the same way.
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Flicker books are also reputed to have been airdropped by the British as WWII propaganda; the jolly British tank crushing its crybaby Nazi enemy. In some ways the magic lantern could outdo the slide projector. It could display images of greater complexity and the comparatively large and bulky slides could contain mechanical features that allowed limited movement of one or more slides within the projector.
For a special occasion, lanternists enhanced the magic with smoke screens, live piano and elocutionists. Multiple lanterns merged and dissolved images, and clever operators invented the original zoom effect — rolling their lanterns back and forth to make the picture loom and recede in the gloom. Shows teetered on the psychedelic, with kaleidoscope patterns projected through layers of chromatrope slides, of which Slater has several. He is also fond of a slide series of Napier before and after the earthquake — a junkshop bargain.
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