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In tackling child obesity, it seems you are not just what you eat, but when and how you eat too.

Nearly a third of children in Aotearoa between the ages of two to fourteen are obese, and the number… Audio

People are dying while pollution continues belching into the air in one of New Zealand’s most beautiful beachside suburbs. What will it take to stop it? Video

Advertising of junk food is a “major contributor” to the diseases sending New Zealanders to an early grave, the Ministry of Health says. 

The word 'fat' has been weaponised against people living in bigger bodies and it's time we stripped away its negative connotations, says American journalist Virginia Sole-Smith. She helps parents… Audio

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

If you can't eat just one hot chip or lollie that's because they're engineered to be not just moreish, but downright addictive. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Michael Moss explains the science to… Audio

A leading New Zealand health researcher says this country needs an over-arching public health programme to tackle the obesity epidemic. A new global study has shown that children in New Zealand… Audio

A leading New Zealand health researcher says this country needs an overarching public health programme to tackle the obesity epidemic. Audio

Prioritising child nutrition is crucial to achieving health and development outcomes in the Pacific. Audio

Last week a UNICEF Report showed New Zealand ranked poorly for its performance in terms of children's wellbeing. Research NZ gauged the level of concern the public has with some of the key wellbeing… Audio

Fifteen regional countries and territories have established a new Pacific Regional Council for Early Childhood Development. Audio

Health ministers from 37 countries around the Asia Pacific are in the Philippines this week to prioritise key work needing attention from the World Health Organisation in the Western Pacific Region… Audio

Professor of Experimental Medicine Terrence Forrester speaks with Kathryn Ryan about imposing a sugar tax in his home country of Jamaica, and how early malnutrition affects health later in life.  Audio

Tackling growing childhood obesity in the Pacific was the focus of a forum of 17 health leaders in Fiji recently. Audio

New research is showing that babies who are born via elective caesarean are more likely to be overweight when they turn one. Caesarian rates have more than doubled globally in the past 20 years, and… Audio

Pasifika children in Auckland have an 18 times greater chance of developing type 2 diabetes than their European peers, according to new research. Audio

Sport New Zealand says sports coaches, parents and schools need to stop the obsession with winning in order to keep more kids playing sport and being active. In the last 16 years participation in… Audio

Pacific health ministers, who met last week in the Cook Islands, want to see a greater effort by the region to tackle non-communicable diseases. Audio

Compare the political parties' health policies.

Research from the Liggins Institute into whether obesity starts in the womb. PhD student Jasmine Plows with her findings so far. She has been researching gestational diabetes and developing potential… Audio

Medical student Isabelle Lomax-Sawyers refers to her body as the type patients are warned not to have in a recent article. She talks to Kim Hill about living with a body that is stigmatised while… Audio

Increasingly strict controls on tobacco since National was elected have hastened a decline in New Zealand's smoking rates, but a lack of similar action on obesity has seen it overtake smoking as the… Video

With a practical ethos for parents with busy schedules, Kate Meads aka The Nappy Lady, has partnered with 40 councils to run workshops where she speaks about reducing waste and saving money. Audio, Gallery

When it comes to parenting, have we become too obsessed with being clean and worrying about children getting sick from all of the germs they might pick up? Audio