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Exercising for health

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Exercising for health

Highlander rugby player Seilala Mapusua and nine-year-old Sunia Makasini reach for the ball as seven-year-old Matatia Lale looks on, during a netball game at Dunedin’s Edgar Centre in 2006. The match was part of the Otago Pacific Peoples Health Trust’s programme to reduce childhood obesity through healthier eating and regular exercise.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 20 April 2006, p. 22

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Colin Tukuitonga, Pacific Island health – Risk factors and health service delivery, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27764/exercising-for-health (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Colin Tukuitonga, published 17 February 2011, updated 9 January 2019.