Keep your placenta healthy by exercising while pregnant

Over 1.9 billion adults worldwide are overweight or obese, and by 2025 this is projected to increase to 2.7 billion. Obesity significantly raises the risk of developing 11 different types of cancer, stroke, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Bioengineering researchers visit Waikato Māori school tomorrow

Researchers from the University of Auckland’s Bioengineering Institute (ABI) will step outside their laboratories tomorrow and spend a day with 40 Year nine and ten pupils at Ngā Taiātea School in Hamilton.

Girl babies born late more likely to become obese adults - study

Girl babies born more than a week past term could be 12 percent more likely to grow up obese, according to a new international study led by a Liggins Institute researcher.

More than $28m for Auckland health research

Health research grants totalling more than $28 million for University of Auckland research projects, programmes, feasibility studies and work by emerging researchers, were announced by the Health Research Council of New Zealand this week.

Gravida announces new grant recipients

Gravida: National Centre for Growth and Development has awarded almost $3 million in its latest round of research funding grants for 19 short-term research projects, 21 PhD scholarships, including two joint PhD Scholarships with the Riddet Institute and the inaugural jointly-funded Heart Foundati

Sugars Could Harm Unborn Baby - Research

Pregnant women who eat a lot of sugar-laden food could be compromising their babies' development, new New Zealand research suggests.

Study Warns Of Hidden Danger To Unborn Infants

Research by a team at The University of Auckland's Liggins Institute has demonstrated a link between the consumption of sugar-rich diets during pregnancy and compromised fetal development.

Dietitians Decry Fad Diet Using Placenta Hormones

Wellington, Dec 16 NZPA - Nutrition experts are warning about potential harmful consequences of a recently-revived fad diet based on hormones from human placenta.

CDHB And Partners Celebrate Innovation At Annual Awards

A lifestyle programme that has benefited over 2,000 Canterbury women, a GAP year application for students that's solving a skills shortage and a project that's resulted in a 100% reduction in complaints were the winners in this year's

Greens: Something Fishy About Latest NZFSA Diet Survey

19 August 2009 - Swimming with sharks could be safer than eating some varieties of fish sold in New Zealand, Green Party Food Safety Spokesperson Sue Kedgley said today.