On my way to the joint annual meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Nutrition Societies in Quesnstown, New Zealand, together with Professor Kylie Ball from Deakin University, I visited the clinical trial research unit of the School of Population Health of the University of Auckland. We had meetings with the behavioral nutrition and physical activity research leaders of the unit, i.e. Cliona Ni Mhurchu and Ralph Madison, as well as a number of research fellows and PhD students. Kylie and I provided a joint symposium at lunch time.