by dbak580 | Aug 28, 2023 | Healthy Weight, News, Newsletter, Resilient Teens, Updates
The team at Nourishing Hawkes Bay have been working on reviewing and identifying gaps in the current Aotearoa New Zealand guidelines on healthy eating and activity for children. As part of that they invited some Year 12 students to participate in a 5-day, live in...
by dbak580 | Aug 14, 2023 | Big Data, Events, Healthy Weight, News, Newsletter, Peer reviewed publication, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning, Updates
Research from the eleven National Science Challenges featured in panel discussions over four evenings from 4-7 July 2023, discussing how scientific evidence can make important contributions to many aspects of life in Aotearoa New Zealand and some of it’s biggest...
by dbak580 | Jul 4, 2023 | Healthy Weight, Media release, News, Updates
The number of children globally with diabetes may have spiked 40 percent over the past three decades, which has seen calls for Kiwis to change their lifestyle. Director of A Better Start National Science Challenge Wayne Cutfield spoke with AM Show’s co-host Ryan...
by dbak580 | Jul 2, 2023 | Events, Healthy Weight, News, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning, Updates
This is a very interesting talk that is well worth attending and is happening tomorrow Tuesday 4th July 5.30pm -7.00pm and A Better Start is excited to be a part of this years New Zealand Science Festival. With our very own A Better Starts’ Deputy Director...
by dbak580 | Jun 15, 2023 | Healthy Weight, News, Peer reviewed publication, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning, Updates
Don’t miss out on this upcoming webinar reporting the latest research results on screen time across the preschool years. Dr. Megan Gath from the University of Canterbury’s Child Well-being Research Institute will present data from a recently published research...
by dbak580 | May 30, 2023 | Healthy Weight, Media release, News, Updates
Beyond Smokers and their Lungs “With complex modelling of new data, we are further analysing the decline in the number of preschool children who are overweight and obese. This decline is unlike any other country in the world and importantly has occurred almost...
