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New NPA website - Healthy As! We’ve moved away from that old corporate look and feel and designed it to be warm, inviting and useful. Please take a look, let us know what you think and rem ember it's your site too - so feel free to submit information, stories, events, ideas etc that you'd like to see published. The Winter Challenge is on!
The Winter Challenge is the first of four seasonal public education campaigns being run by the NPA to get local kids eating more veges and doing more exercise. The concept links seasons to the colour of in-season produce and to relevant sports and activities. So for winter, we’ve gone with orange to link with pumpkin, kumara and carrots, and with basketball and cycling.
click here for full story..... Marlborough is Moving Locals who hadn’t exercised for as
long as 40 years are now working out regularly thanks to The NPA funded initiative administered by Marlborough Stadium, recently wrapped the first Team Challenge after 130 locals completed the 10-week programme with astounding results.
Evil diet witch
The woman affectionately known as the 'Evil Diet Witch' will be back to speak in Blenheim on August 17 to give ideas on how to feed kids well on a budget.
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Trim on top of the south Nelson and Marlborough both got bragging rights this month when NPA statistics showed we’re much skinnier than the rest of country - which seems to be getting fatter. Results from our baseline survey provided the basis for two big stories in the local press. Click the links below for the full stories Nelson Mail: Nelsonians slim and trim Marlborough Express: Marlburians are lightweights
in a nation of fatties. New approach to breastfeeding support
Annie shared her inspirational story in a effort to promote the new Peer Counselling Programme, which provides one-on-one support for new breastfeeding mums across the top of the south. The NPA was instrumental in bringing the PCP programme to Nelson-Marlborough and for arranging training for Annie and 4 other women to become PCP administrators.
Nelson loves ya baby!
You could argue that Nelson has officially
become one the friendliest places in
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Newsletter #14 Here’s Helen The times are a changing! In this edition we fairwell our old website and welcome in a new site, with a new look and a new url. It's catchy, it's easy to remember and it symbolises a strategic, focused approach to our communications. healthyas.org.nz already hosts all the useful information from our old site, but uses a different tone of language to engage the reader. The idea is that it becomes a resource for the wider public, as well as those working in the industry, to tap into our campaign for healthier living. It already hosts a great recipe finder (courtesy of vegetables.co.nz), walking and cycling guides and will soon have an interactive map of the region's open orchards. Eventually it will be a link for the public to tap into all the work, services and programmes of the NPA and our partners. Check it out now - but beware that it is a work in
progress. We're adding content to it regularly and it will grow and evolve over time. We're also happy to use it to promote the work of our partners so we hope you will approach us when you need publicity for anything in the field of nutrition and physical activity.
We've borrowed the name, with permission of course, from the Iwi Health Board’s slogan – “Kia korowaitia aku mokopuna ki te korowaitanga hauora – Healthy As!”. In English it means: To cover our grandchildren with the cloak of wellness. It sums up the NPA's mission perfectly. Helen Steenbergen Contact us Nutrition and Physical Activity Team Jenni Gane/Maria Baxter Richard Butler Luke Katu Helen Steenbergen Lee Punt Don MacLellan Adam Hicks
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If you've noticed an increase in orange
across the top of the south, it’s probably because the NPA launched the
Winter Challenge last month.
TV
personality, author and expert nutritionist Nikki Hart came to Nelson last
week to speak at a symposium for local parents of children under 5 and
Early Childhood Education
providers.
"Watching
her newborn son feed through a tube into his stomach,