This belief structure has led to recent changes to NZ law to ensure healthy rental housing is provided via the Healthy Homes Guarantee Act. This law utilises a healthy minimum temperature threshold of 18掳C as set by the World Health Organisation (WHO). A review of the literature finds ...
The DREAM trial intervention was administered at participants’ homes between October 2018 and March 2020. Participants were 100 children aged 8 to 12 years who lived in Dunedin, New Zealand; had no underlying medical conditions; and had parent- or guardian-reported normal sleep (8-11 hours/...
The last time I saw Flo was the day after Thanksgiving. Allyn and I swung by with Blenzers and turkey leftovers. I was 39 weeks pregnant and Flo kept marveling at my belly. Flo was 98 years old and had slowed down a great deal. She was much frailer and less steady on her feet;...
Among the few reported interventions conducted in child care settings, most have been effective at improving children’s dietary, physical activity and screen-time behaviors [47]; however, all of these studies were conducted in child care centers and none in family child care homes (FCCHs), whi...
[6,27]. Generic health promoting services in a community context may act as a supplement or alternative to mainstream healthcare provision, especially where alternative approaches are absent. The multiple routes for enrolment on to community centre-based activities are likely to address unmet health ...
[28] used the same methodology obtaining comparable results; however, the stores in Buenos Aires seems to have a lower shelf length ratio (CABA: 0.25 SD 0.13 vs. NZ: 0.42, SD 0.13), meaning a worse relative of healthy vs. unhealthy products. Our findings on the availability of foods by...
[9,10]. Given that the daily dose of PUFAs consumed in this study was lower compared with GSM oil intervention studies, it is plausible that other bioactive lipid and non-lipid constituents may act in synergy with EPA and DHA to promote muscle recovery. Hyaluronic acid, a glycosaminoglycan,...