http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1308/S00168.htm Public Health Priorities Must Change Friday, 9 August 2013, 1:24 pm Press Release: New Zealand First Party Barbara Stewart MP Spokesperson for Health 9 August 2013 Public Health Priorities Must Change Public health costs in New Zealand are set to soar unless we seriously target obesity says New Zealand First. University of Otago researchers have found that obesity and excess body weight are set to overtake smoking as the major cause of declining health by 2016. Health spokesperson Barbara Stewart says that the Government should reintroduce the ‘Health Eating, Healthy Action’ programme which gets in early and teaches children that healthy eating is preferable to filling up on junk food. [....]