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Cooking intervention increases diet quality in adolescents: a randomised controlled trial
Background: There is limited evidence to support the direct impact of cooking interventions on diet quality, especially in adolescents. Diet quality can be measured using a Diet Quality Index (DQI). The New Zealand Diet ...
Reflecting on Culture in Medicine: Second-year medical students' online discussions
This thesis reports on a qualitative study of the role of reflection in the development of second year medical students’ intercultural competence. Reflective capacity is an important professional competency and is crucial ...
Structural setting and paragenesis of the mineralised veins in the Waipori goldfield, southeast Otago, New Zealand
The Waipori goldfield was discovered in 1861 on the southeast side of the Otago Schist belt in the area surrounding Lake Mahinerangi. Accurate historical records are not available but it is estimated the goldfield produced ...
“Critical literacy seems really interesting, but why talk about menstruation?” A critical literacy approach to teaching and learning about menstruation
For the majority of young people, puberty and sexuality education is an important source of information about menstruation. Menstruation is part of the Positive Puberty unit, Year Six to Eight in the New Zealand Health ...
Gas hydrate system dynamics in the Uruti Basin, an upper slope basin on New Zealand's Hikurangi Margin
Gas hydrate is a large potential unconventional energy resource. However, uncertain-ties still remain about gas hydrate system dynamics, including the processes that stimulate growth, development and change within a gas ...
Transport to School Habits, Physical Activity and Weight Status in Adolescents
Background: Active transport (AT) to school is a means for adolescents to increase the amount of daily moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and can help them achieve physical activity (PA) guidelines. This study ...
The short-term effects of the COOK intervention on cooking skills and self-efficacy for cooking in New Zealand adolescents
Background: Consumption of convenience foods is one factor that is potentially contributing to the high rates of obesity in New Zealand adolescents. The increased availability of these convenience foods now means that ...
Development and testing of a population-based electronic diabetes nutritional education tool
Nutritional education for pre- and type 2 diabetes empowers individuals to make positive dietary and lifestyle choices. As the world migrates to digital devices, opportunities arise for education resources that have a wide ...
Water temperature and food availability influence brown trout (Salmo trutta) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) population dynamics in the Cardrona River: implications for flow regime management
Reduced surface discharge negatively influences freshwater fish populations. Under the current flow regime management, the lower Cardrona River has experienced annual low flow events over the summer months. This low flow ...
A Taste for Consumption: Food Waste Generation in New Zealand Cafés and Restaurants
Globally, approximately one-third (1.3 billion tons) of all food produced for human consumption each year ends up wasted throughout the food supply chain. This food waste has social, environmental and economic impacts which ...