Back: free milk in (some) schools
Date: 28 Jul 2011The days of giving kids milk in school are about to return - but this time it will be cold. From the start of next week KidsCan will send out 5000 servings of fresh milk into 11 schools for a trial that will hopefully be expanded around the country. KidsCan chief executive Julie Helson said children weren't receiving enough milk in their diet so the charity decided to launch a programme to try to fix that. From Monday - the start of term three - 2500 children from 11 lower decile ... more
Domino’s comes to the aid of KidsCan charity
Date: 25 Jul 2011Domino’s Pizza will hand over $10,000 to children’s charity KidsCan (www.kidscan.org.nz) this week following allegations another company reneged on its promised donation. The food service company is known for its charitable work both here and across the ditch with its Doughraiser campaigns generating funds for numerous Kiwi charities. Domino’s NZ General Manager Josh Kilimnik, says the company is already a sponsor of a similar charity in Australia and ... more
NZ 'well behind 8-ball' in nutrition
Date: 16 Jul 2011A Massey University nutrition researcher is questioning the 5+ a Day rule, saying the Health Ministry is not promoting enough fruit and vegetables in our diets compared with other countries. Nutrition expert Caroline Gunn is researching the effects of higher intakes of fruit and vegetables in post-menopausal women, but said after comparing the health guidelines for Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, New Zealand was "well behind the eight ball". ... more
Kickstart Breakfast notches up 2 million nutritious breakfasts
Date: 2 Jun 2011KickStart Breakfast the school breakfast programme, run by Fonterra and Sanitarium, yesterday celebrated serving its two millionth breakfast for Kiwi children on World Milk Day, 1 June 2011. To mark the occasion rookie chef and leading New Zealand rugby player, Richard Kahui, and popular children’s TV host, Erin Simpson, joined the kids of Auckland’s Panama Road School for a special celebration breakfast. The school was one of the founding KickStart Breakfast Clubs in the ... more
ZESPRI® GOLD Kiwifruit is a better source of vitamin C than supplements
Date: 27 May 2011New research has discovered that vitamin C from ZESPRI® GOLD Kiwifruit is far more effectively absorbed into the body than a supplement. In a recent study published by the internationally heralded American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers at University of Otago, Christchurch found that mice absorbed vitamin C from ZESPRI® GOLD Kiwifruit five times more effectively than an artificial vitamin C supplement. Lead researcher, Associate Professor Margreet Vissers said ... more
Vitamin C blocks tumour growth: study
Date: 20 Jul 2010New Zealand researchers have established that vitamin C can help to block the growth of cancer cells - an important experimental finding they expect could be quickly adopted into cancer treatment. A team from Otago University at Christchurch, in a paper published in leading international journal Cancer Research, say their study of tumorous and normal tissue samples from women with cancer of the uterine lining provides the first direct evidence of a link between vitamin C and a protein called ... more
