Posts by Carol Stewart
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Congratulations to you, Russell, and also to my good friend Barbara Fountain. So very well deserved in both cases.
Also very happy to see The Wireless get the best website award. I'm not exactly the target demographic, but I love it. RNZ just get better and better. Wallace Chapman's Sunday morning programme yesterday was so good. -
Polity: Is being a tax haven worth it?, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Gamesmanship is not governance.
Nicely put Ian.
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I was about to commend Brent for his well chosen words too.
Back to the topic: quite cool to see these community-led developments towards a healthier Aotearoa.
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Speaker: Talking past each other:…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Exactly, it's the 'informed' bit that is the problem.
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Speaker: Talking past each other:…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Cheers for that Bart.. very interesting. I've found that starting the day with a bowl of oatmeal and yoghurt seems to be very beneficial for my overall digestive wellbeing (sorry, TMI). I think it's quite good to pay attention to how you feel after eating various foods.
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Speaker: Talking past each other:…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Nevertheless most of the folks working in the field say they personally have changed their diet to promote microbiome diversity even when they aren’t willing to put anything in a journal paper.
Interesting Bart. What sorts of dietary changes are these? Probiotic yoghurt would be an obvious one I guess.
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Speaker: Talking past each other:…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I agree, Bart.
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Speaker: Talking past each other:…, in reply to Russell Brown,
The sugar tax is popular among conservative politicians
Really? It’s been dismissed by John Key, opposed by Katherine Rich and notoriously and dirtily campaigned against by Carrick Graham and friends.
And supported by a very large group of public health professionals. People whose pronouncements about such public health interventions as improving the housing stock we listen to carefully.
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This also seems like a good approach.
The hapū whānau at the meeting told Ricky that they wanted to find out what the issues were with obesity, why it was a problem, and understand its relationship to wellness.
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Speaker: Talking past each other:…, in reply to giovanni tiso,
The sugar tax was introduced in the UK at the same time as sweeping benefit cuts which, given what we know about incomes and nutrition, are guaranteed to lead to poorer diets and more health problems.
Happy to agree with you on this one. There's an interesting recent book on this topic by two UK public health researchers: The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills.