Story: Body shape and dieting
Page 5. External links and sources
More links and websites
New Zealand Health Survey
The New Zealand Health Survey includes information about New Zealanders’ weight, obesity rate and healthy eating.
Obesity key facts and statistics
Information on obesity from the Ministry of Health.
More suggestions and sources
- Coney, Sandra. Standing in the sunshine: a history of New Zealand women since they won the vote. Auckland: Viking, 1993.
- Daley, Caroline. Leisure and pleasure: reshaping & revealing the New Zealand body 1900–1960. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2003.
How to cite this page
Caroline Daley, Body shape and dieting, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/story/223200/sources (accessed 25 June 2026).
Story by Caroline Daley, published 13 August 2013.