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Glen Innes Healthy Kai (GIHK) - a community partnership project with local retailers.   This is the September/October 2010 issue of the GIHK newsletter.

Patricia Noonan and Joan Swift have been involved in the annual street appeal since its beginning in August 1990.

Armed with donation buckets and bright yellow daffodils to hand out in return for cash, the pair have been out with hundreds of other volunteers come the last Friday of August each year to help raise money for cancer sufferers.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/health/news/article.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=10669153

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Eighty-one cans of beer and 57 glasses of wine also formed part of the diet, alongside 59 bar snacks, such as pork pies and Scotch eggs, and 73 bags of chips.

The survey of 3000 people was released to mark Gut Week and highlight the dangers of being overweight. More than one in five said their exercise routine went out of the window as it got hot and about 14 per cent said the soccer World Cup led to more eating and drinking than usual.

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According to scientists, eating more green leafy vegetables can significantly cut the risk of developing diabetes.

British researchers reviewed six earlier studies on links between diabetes and the consumption of fruits and vegetables and found eating an extra serving a day of vegetables like spinach, cabbage, and broccoli reduced adults' risk of getting type two diabetes by 14%.

The findings do not prove that the veggies themselves prevent type two diabetes which is often linked to poor diet and lack of exercise and is reaching epidemic levels as obesity rates rise.

People who eat more green leafy vegetables may also have a healthier diet overall, exercise more, or may be better off financially and any of those factors could affect how likely they are to get diabetes.

http://tvnz.co.nz/health-news/study-green-leafy-veges-can-cut-diabetes-risk-3724296

BollyworX is SPROUT’s physical activity programme and is a classic representation of the Indian flavours it brings into the community - right from choreography to song selection from the latest Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu Indian films.  BollyworX is not a dance but just 'plain fun body movements' with Bollywood music which is exceptionally easy and fun, suitable for all age groups and all fitness levels BollyworX is fun for everyone and can be done without feeling self-conscious. There are no 'jhatka- matka' or obscene Bollywood moves that will embarrass anybody. Its culturally appropriate as well.

Typically in BollyworX, participants do ‘huff-and-puff’ exercises as instructed by BollyworX instructors who are trained ‘Community Coaches’. To become BollyworX instructors, one undergoes the ‘Community Coach’ training by ‘Netfit’ who are New Zealand's only fitness professionals association. The training is on the basics of the human body, fitness and exercise; safe exercise techniques; how to plan exercises and choreograph them into Bollywood music etc.

The community participation and the volunteering has made BollyworX is a strong community health brand in the South Asian community. Community work is never possible without a committed team.

Among the many complements SPROUT’s BollyworX instructors received on Wednesday, here’s a comment that blew them away -"I have been going to gym for many years, but your workout outclasses them all". One Asian lady who came today told a SPROUT volunteer that she has got requested her boss to have an early lunch break on Saturdays to attend BollyworX in New Lynn as she likes it so much. We also had a request to give franchise to do Bollyworx in North Shore. This shows the positive difference on health SPROUT is making in the South Asian community.

SPROUT volunteers and instructors proved this again by being good examples of selfless service and commitment to the cause of lowering health risks affecting the Indian and South Asian community. Like it’s said "Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something."

What: BollyworX Mount Roskill
When: Every Wednesday ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBzMpLf44k0&feature=fvst)
Time: 6.30 to 7.30 pm
Where: Mt Roskill War Memorial Hall, 13 May Road, Mt Roskill
Cost: Entry by donation only with proceeds going towards the venue hire. $2 donation per class expected.

For more information on BollyworX or SPROUT visit www.sprout.net.nz.

The figures come from a study of 1200 girls in three US cities. Of the girls studied, 10.4 per cent of white 7-year-olds had breast development consistent with the onset of puberty, compared to 5 per cent in a 1997 study.

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19288-early-puberty-in-girls-doubles-in-a-decade.html

Together with a research review that shows the stabilisation of childhood obesity rates, or even their decrease, in 15 countries worldwide over the past decade (see map), new data also showing obesity levelling off was presented at the International Congress on Obesity in Stockholm, Sweden, last month.

Read More: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727723.800-rise-in-childhood-obesity-is-slowing-worldwide.html

Annie Thompson, of the Marlborough Primary Health Organisation's Mum4Mum peer support group, said a record 38 mothers got together at the Marlborough Club in Blenheim to breastfeed their babies on Friday

Registrations are now open for the 2010 Pacific Island Nutrition and Physical Activity Fono. Our Fono theme this year is promoting nutrition and physical activity in Pacific Youth, see the attached programme for further details.

Registrations close on the 9^th of September 2010, so register today to secure your place.

The fono is free to attend, so feel free to distribute this email widely.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) Aug 03 - More than 72 million U.S. adults, or 26.7%, are obese, up 1 percentage point in two years, the U.S. government reported on Tuesday.

Obesity has become "a major public health threat" and is steadily worsening, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.

"We need intensive, comprehensive and ongoing efforts to address obesity," CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden said in a statement.

"If we don't more people will get sick and die from obesity-related conditions such as heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer, some of the leading causes of death."

Read more: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/726262?sssdmh=dm1.630872&src=nldne&uac=145361HX

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But the review did show that hospital stays were longer in those who were obese than in those who were not.

The review, a pilot study presented at the National Medical Association 2010 Annual Convention and Scientific Assembly, was an examination of complication rates in people with a body mass index of 30 kg/m² or higher who received either hip or knee replacement surgery at HSS between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2009.

Read more: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/726274?sssdmh=dm1.630721&src=nldne&uac=145361HX

Nicole L. Mihalopoulos, MD, MPH, Adolescent Medicine Physician, conducted a community-based program to teach nutrition and physical activity to overweight/obese Latino adolescents in Salt Lake City.

Nicole wrote an article describing lessons learned in a journal published by the state (attached).

After doing the program for Latino teens she re-structured and did a very similar program for Pacific Islander teens (funded by a CATCH grant from the AAP).

The most important lesson Nicole learnt is that focus groups with members of the community (some leaders, some followers) are critical for developing the content, choosing a location, how to recruit, how to retain.

The “Breastfeeding Welcome Here” toolkit re-launch to more than 100 Hamilton cafes coincides with this year’s annual World Breastfeeding Week, 1-7 August.

Click on the following link to read the media release

http://www.waikatodhb.govt.nz/news/pageid/2145861898/Breastfeeding_welcome_here_everywhere

Source: BMJ. 2010 Jul 13;341

Nancy J.O. Birkmeyer, PhD, from the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, and colleagues reported the findings in the July 28 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Read more: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/725848?sssdmh=dm1.629478&src=nldne&uac=145361HX

Calling a personal coach every month about the latest scale reading or hamburger binge is one solution. Another — one more within reach of the average patient — is consistently logging in to an interactive Internet version of a personal coach, according to a study from the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research.

The key word is "consistently." Participants in a study funded by the National Institutes of Health who visited a weight-management Web site almost every month maintained more of their weight loss than patients who checked in sporadically. However, those assigned to a personal coach regained the least amount of weight overall compared with participants who used the Web sites and those whose weight maintenance was self-directed.

Read more http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/725889?sssdmh=dm1.629478&src=nldne&uac=145361HX

The Asian Network Inc (TANI) is also holding a workshop on the 12^th of August titled: Empowering Immigrants for Successful Settlement and Integration, with guest speaker Professor Ka Tat Tsang from the University of Toronto Canada, see the attached flyer for further details.

Following the success of ANA's 2009 National Conference Kia Hono: Kia Awe – Cultivating Connections: Inspiring Solutions, we are now in the early stages of planning our 2011 National Nutrition and Physical Activity Conference which will be held on the 3-4 May 2011 in Auckland.

To ensure the conference is relevant and supports your work, ANA want to know what themes and topics you would like to see discussed and presented.

ANA have created a short survey which should take less than 5 minutes to complete and everyone who completes the survey has a chance to win a free registration to our 2011 National Conference.

To complete the survey, please click here:

  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PQDDDNF

The survey will close on Friday 6^th August 2010 at 5pm

 Your time and support is greatly appreciated.