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World-first research uses gut bacteria to improve health of obese teenagers

World-first research uses gut bacteria to improve health of obese teenagers

by lwan604 | Jan 14, 2021 | Healthy Weight, Media release, Updates

New Zealand research has shown how gut bacteria from healthy, lean people can be used to improve the health of teenagers who are clinically obese. Obese Auckland teenagers who swallowed capsules of the gut bacteria of healthy peers reduced a condition called...
Read our latest newsletter

Read our latest newsletter

by ksch009 | Aug 6, 2020 | Big Data, Healthy Weight, Newsletter, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning

We’ve just sent out our latest newsletter, which contains updates about the Challenge team, A Better Start’s webinar series, news and recent publications. Read more here.
Kia ora Michele Crawshaw – welcome to the team

Kia ora Michele Crawshaw – welcome to the team

by ksch009 | Jul 20, 2020 | Big Data, Healthy Weight, Media release, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning

Kia ora and welcome to Michele Crawshaw. Michele is our new Senior Communications & Marketing Adviser. Michele brings with her a wealth of experience as an award-winning magazine editor and a passionate digital, social media, video and print storyteller. We...
ABS Challenge Director awarded this year’s Gluckman Medal

ABS Challenge Director awarded this year’s Gluckman Medal

by ksch009 | Jun 9, 2020 | Big Data, Directorate, Healthy Weight, Media release, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning

Congratulations to A Better Start’s Challenge Director, Professor Wayne Cutfield, who has been awarded this year’s Gluckman Medal for his outstanding contributions to research. The Gluckman Medal is an extremely prestigious award and is awarded each year...
Farewell to our Board Chair, Pat Snedden

Farewell to our Board Chair, Pat Snedden

by ksch009 | May 13, 2020 | Big Data, Healthy Weight, Media release, Newsletter, Resilient Teens, Science theme leader, Successful Literacy and Learning, Vision Matauranga

After almost six years Pat Snedden has stepped down as the Chair of A Better Start E Tipu e Rea National Science Challenge. Pat’s influence on the Challenge and it’s direction has been enormous and we are hugely thankful to him for this. Pat’s commitments have grown...
Bigger babies at risk of obesity in adulthood: study

Bigger babies at risk of obesity in adulthood: study

by ksch009 | Feb 10, 2020 | Healthy Weight, Media release

Big, ‘bonny’ babies are traditionally celebrated as pictures of health, but a new international study shows women born heavy were on average nearly 4kg heavier by their mid-twenties, when they were also 50 percent more likely to develop obesity. The study, an...
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