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Empowering remote communities - Healthy Stores 2020
Reducing in-store merchandising of unhealthy foods and drinks can reduce the purchase of those items, new research conducted in remote communities has found.
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NITV |Remote Healthy Stores trial hailed a success
The project was developed after community concern about the high rates of type two diabetes and obesity, and involves making changes like moving soft drinks from the fridge to the shelf and taking sugary snacks away from busy sections of stores.
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Study to fight food insecurity in Indigenous communities
The project was designed with the Apunipima Cape York Health Council and the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress. Menzies is collaborating on the project.
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Creating food retail environments for health
WE are excited to announce the establishment of the first National Health and Medical Research Council Centre (NHMRC) for Research Excellence in Food Retail Environments for Health.
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CRANAplus magazine | Thumbs up for GOOD TUCKER app
A free healthy food app designed to help people from remote communities make healthier food and beverage choices at local stores has been launched.
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Creating health apps that work for Indigenous youth
Public health professionals working with Indigenous youth are urged to take a new and engaging approach to delivering positive health messages.
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Indigenous Australians under-reporting the amount of ‘unhealthy foods’ they consume
There is an urgent need to better track community nutrition to support policymakers in improving the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in remote communities.
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Good Tucker app gets thumbs up from Rob
The Good Tucker app scans a product’s barcode and then shows how healthy or unhealthy it is with a simple thumbs up, sideways or down message.
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'Good tucker, long life': Hopes app will turn Indigenous eating habits around
The Good Tucker app is designed to put free, instant and easy advice in the palm of your hand, moving away from conventional forms of healthy food campaigning.
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Tracking nutrition found to be vital - Koori Mail
MEASURING what people eat is important for informing food and nutrition policy and programs, according to research from Menzies School of Health Research published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
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DoH - Free healthy food app dials up good tucker for remote Indigenous communities
The Hon Ken Wyatt AM, MP Minister for Indigenous Health Free healthy food app dials up good tucker for remote Indigenous communities A new mobile phone app has been launched which promises to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in remote...
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Food data vital - Centralian Advocate
THERE is a need to track community nutrition over time using food and beverage data to help improve the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in remote communities, according to new research.
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Tracking food and beverage purchases in remote NT communities
Measuring what people eat is important for informing food and nutrition policy and programs, according to research from Menzies School of Health Research (Menzies) published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health.
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NHMRC fellowship snapshot: Dr Emma McMahon
Menzies’ Dr Emma McMahon was recently awarded an Early Career Fellowship as part of the National Health and Medical Research Council’s latest multi-million dollar funding round. Emma’s fellowship provides support for her salary for the...
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MacKillop funding bolsters Good Tucker in Nyirripi
A Menzies project which aims to support better nutrition in remote Aboriginal communities has been awarded $9000 in funding by the Mary MacKillop Foundation.
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Indigenous health advocate receives Honorary Doctorate
Long-serving Indigenous researcher and educator, Lawurrpa Maypilama has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate during CDU's recent graduation ceremony.
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Study examines new ways to promote active living in remote communities
Researchers at the Menzies have conducted the first ever detailed study documenting Indigenous perspectives on active living.
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The Conversation: Anaemia and poor nutrition running high among young Indigenous children
Young children living in remote Indigenous communities have long been known to suffer from iron deficiency and anaemia at many times the rates found among other Australian children. Now a new report shows rates of anaemia among these remote children at...
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New resource package to improve nutrition in remote communities
A new resource package focused on improving nutrition in remote stores in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities will help to address the poor state of diets in remote Indigenous populations.
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SBS World News: Alarm over diets in remote communities
Researchers in the Northern Territory have expressed alarm over the diets of Indigenous people in remote communities.
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SBS World News: Remote communities 'eat mostly processed foods'
The Menzies School of Health Research study into diets in three Northern Territory communities shows residents are eating mostly processed foods.
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MJA: Characteristics of the community-level diet of Aboriginal people in remote northern Australia
To describe the nutritional quality of community-level diets in remote northern Australian communities.
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Research reveals concerning nutrition outcomes in remote communities
Some remote Indigenous communities are spending as little as 2.2 per cent of total food expenditure on fruit and just 5.4 per cent on vegetables according to a study by the Menzies School of Health Research, published in the latest issue of the Medical Journal of Australia.