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• Sugar – since when did the facts get in the way of a good story?

  By Donnell Alexander on June 11, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  Last night’s Sunday programme on sugary soft drinks (TVNZ 10 June, 7pm) promised yet another “expose” of the type our current affairs love to hype up to get our eyeballs and ears on their screens at the right time.  Previous… Read More ›

• Blind men and an elephant

  By Donnell Alexander on March 15, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  There’s an old Indian tale about giving a group of blind men an elephant to describe through feel.  As each of them is feeling different parts of the elephant, they end up squabbling as none can agree on how to… Read More ›

• Motivating the imperfect, irrational human being

  By Emma Davidson on October 3, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  At the Dietitians NZ Conference in Nelson this year I attended a memorable workshop by Melbourne-based Psycoholgist John Boyle, on making changes and breaking habits. Lightbulbs went on in my head throughout the workshop, appropriately titled A conversation around compliance,… Read More ›

• The expansion of New Zealand waistlines

  By Donnell Alexander on September 23, 2011 • ( 4 )

  

  With the release of the 2008/09 nutrition survey summary report last week, I was heartened to read that diet-wise, New Zealand adults seem to be starting to make the right choices.  According to the survey, since 1997 we’ve reduced our… Read More ›

• You still can’t beat f2f!

  By Donnell Alexander on August 26, 2011

  In this age of real-time electronic communication, it’s easy to be cynical about the time and expense involved in attending a good old-fashioned face-to-face meeting or conference.  After all, just last week I took part in a tweet chat with… Read More ›

• Do tales of expensive tomatoes really protect the public interest?

  By Jane Dodd on August 4, 2011

  Media are required to walk a fine line between generating interest from their publics while ensuring they are not misrepresenting facts to do this.They also tend to target one aspect of an issue to illustrate a point with the effect… Read More ›

• When is a healthy recipe not a healthy recipe?

  By Donnell Alexander on June 14, 2011 • ( 1 )

  It has become the fashion for most, if not all, of our lifestyle magazines to present what they call “healthy recipes”.  This is a development that concerns me, not for the fact they are promoting healthy food, but because such recipes… Read More ›

• Going the gluten free way

  By Jess on May 23, 2011

  Being recently diagnosed by a dietitian as having a gluten intolerance, I wandered along to the Gluten Free Food & Allergy Show over the weekend.  It’s an annual roadshow of producers, tasters, and information stalls, all bundled into one room… Read More ›

• Food Week dishes up popular cooking tips

  By Emma Davidson on May 13, 2011 • ( 2 )

  There’s only 2 more days to go in the inaugural New Zealand Nutrition Foundation Food Week! Having completed 16 radio interviews and five interactive celebrity cooking demos with audiences of hundreds, and with 600 “likes” on the Food Week Facebook page,… Read More ›

• Our food is cheap – but don’t expect us to accept it

  By Paul Hemsley on May 6, 2011 • ( 1 )

  A recurring theme for the balance of this (election) year will, I suspect, be food prices, particularly with the soaring price of petrol.  Despite our deep grumbles about prices, we bow to the oil barons, and attempt to revert to… Read More ›

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