News - Menzies

Creating food retail environments for health

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September 03, 2018 - 08:49am

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.
CRANAplus magazine | Thumbs up for GOOD TUCKER app

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December 20, 2017 - 11:07am

A free healthy food app designed to help people from remote communities make healthier food and beverage choices at local stores has been launched.
$12 Million NT Investment aims to save lives

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November 10, 2017 - 08:00am

Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion and Indigenous Health Minister Ken Wyatt AM today announced the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding for researchers at Darwin’s Menzies School of Medical Research, covering Indigenous-specific and broader health projects.
Good Tucker app gets thumbs up from Rob

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November 03, 2017 - 02:30am

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.
'Good tucker, long life': Hopes app will turn Indigenous eating habits around

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November 02, 2017 - 18:00pm

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.
Traditional food trends in remote Northern Territory communities

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March 29, 2017 - 08:30am

The majority of Aboriginal people living in remote Northern Territory communities are regularly using traditional foods in their diets according to research from Menzies School of Health Research published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health today
Food price gap shows need for subsidies and promo deals for remote areas

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September 07, 2015 - 09:41am

Every year in the Northern Territory, government and non-government public health nutritionists gather data on the cost of a standardised basket of food... the price difference for grocery type foods was 136%.
Food price gap shows need for subsidies and promo deals for remote areas

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August 31, 2015 - 17:06pm

Every year in the Northern Territory, government and non-government public health nutritionists gather data on the cost of a standardised basket of food.
MacKillop funding bolsters Good Tucker in Nyirripi

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December 11, 2013 - 14:56pm

A Menzies project which aims to support better nutrition in remote Aboriginal communities has been awarded $9000 in funding by the Mary MacKillop Foundation.
The Conversation: Indigenous child health improves when fruit and veg are cheap

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July 11, 2013 - 09:25am

Providing subsidised fruit and vegetable scheme to low-income Indigenous families in northern New South Wales improves children’s health and significantly reduces antibiotic use, a new study has found.
SBS World News: Alarm over diets in remote communities

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April 17, 2013 - 12:00pm

Researchers in the Northern Territory have expressed alarm over the diets of Indigenous people in remote communities.
SBS World News: Remote communities 'eat mostly processed foods'

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April 16, 2013 - 12:00pm

The Menzies School of Health Research study into diets in three Northern Territory communities shows residents are eating mostly processed foods.
MJA: Characteristics of the community-level diet of Aboriginal people in remote northern Australia

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April 15, 2013 - 12:00pm

To describe the nutritional quality of community-level diets in remote northern Australian communities.
Research reveals concerning nutrition outcomes in remote communities

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April 15, 2013 - 12:00pm

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.
Closing the Gap 2013: three good news stories

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January 30, 2013 - 00:00am

With the Prime Minister’s Closing the Gap report published in February this year, here are three ways Menzies is helping to improve the lifespan and wellbeing of Indigenous Australians.

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