Latino kids NEED more healthy food and drink options—even at the zoo. WATCH and VOTE for your favorite “#SaludHeroes of Healthy Food and Drinks” by Oct. 7, 2015, and be entered in a random drawing to win a FREE T-shirt and jump rope! #SaludHeroes are: 1st U.S. Soda Tax. Latino leaders like Xavier Morales helped push for a penny-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks in Berkeley, Calif., the nation’s first such initiative. Start a Farmer’s Market. San Antonio teacher Michelle Griego knew a farmer’s market was missing in her neighborhood—so she started one on her own. Zoo Food. The El Paso Zoo is capitalizing on the healthy habits of animals to urge people to make proper eating and activity choices. Wrestling up Salad. Teen wrestler Alexander Castillo started ...
Juanita Gatrelle, a P.E. teacher at Specht Elementary School in San Antonio, isn't afraid to "bribe" kids to get physically active. Gatrelle takes advantage of prizes offered by corporations and groups to reward kids for participating in various activities in her new after-school program that is for students, families, and the public. "The NFL and the Dairy Farmers of America have teamed up to reward kids, basically bribe them to get moving, and that’s just fine with me," she said. Gatrelle was featured this week on the “Making Awesome Changes” TV series, which partners KSAT-TV and Salud America! to feature people and groups who are pushing for healthy changes. Salud America!, a Latino childhood obesity research network funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and ...
Find the latest advances in Latino health—from a health-promoting video series to removing "taco dogs" from schools—in the IHPR Noticias E-newsletter. IHPR Noticias has lots of info on the latest local and national health disparities-related news, resources and events: Story: New TV Series by Salud America! and KSAT-TV (Pg. 1)
Study: Program Helps Hispanic Kids Adopt Healthier Lifestyle (Pg. 3)
Story: Inaugural Event Explores Women’s Cancer Survivorship (Pg. 4)
Story: Social Media Uproar Causes District to Remove ‘Taco Dog’ from School Menus (Pg. 6)
Campaign: 27,000+ People Tell Taco Bell: Quit Pushing Sugary Drinks (Pg. 8)
Resources: 5 Ways to Set the Stage for Success by Latino Youth (Pg. 9) IHPR Noticias is a quarterly publication from the Institute for ...
Eric Castillo, who went from struggling with alcoholism and smoking to becoming one of the oldest athletes to play Division I college football, is featured in a documentary that debuts on DVD and at the Santikos Palladium theater on July 26, 2015, in San Antonio, San Antonio Magazine reports. Castillo overcame alcohol issues and walked on to the football team at the University of the Incarnate Word, where he made the team at age 27 and played in a game at age 30. Castillo's documentary, The Power of a Dream, offers hope for perseverance over alcoholism. Latinos who choose to drink are more likely to consume higher volumes of alcohol than non-Latinos, and about 8.3% of Latinos needed treatment for alcohol problems in the past year, federal statistics show. Castillo started ...
More than 200 cancer survivors and healthcare providers explored diet, spirituality, and more at the inaugural Women’s Survivorship Summit on June 13, 2015, in San Antonio. The summit, which featured guest speakers and cancer resources, was organized by the San Antonio Cancer Education Collaborative, a coalition that includes the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. “The event was a huge success. We made great strides to increase awareness of the various issues faced by cancer survivors, and solutions to those issues” said Sandra San Miguel, summit co-chair and a researcher of Redes En Acción, a Latino cancer research network supported by the National Cancer Institute and led by the IHPR. The summit featured ...
Hispanic children who participated in a unique weight-maintenance pilot intervention were more likely to adopt healthy lifestyles, resulting in healthier weights, than children who didn’t participate, according to a UT Health Science Center at San Antonio study in the June 2015 issue of the journal Childhood Obesity. The pilot study, which paved the way for a new $2.9 million grant to test the intervention on a larger scale through 2019, was implemented with parent-child pairs in a rural clinic in New Braunfels, Texas. Children who participated were Hispanic, ages 5-14, and obese/overweight. “Comprehensive behavioral programs have been shown to help these children improve their weight status. However, more efficient interventions that can be done in primary care clinics must ...
What's a healthy, productive way to use empty space on a school campus? Students turned such a space into a sprawling community garden at Harris Middle School in San Antonio to yield a learning environment for students and fresh produce for students and nearby residents. The students' efforts are featured in the new “Making Awesome Changes” TV series, which partners KSAT-TV and Salud America! to feature Salud Heroes—people and groups who are pushing for healthy changes—on the evening news. "I feel better because knowing that I helped in the creation of new vegetables, and that they are better for the environment, and they're better for you to eat since they are organic and they taste better too," said Miwa Stowers, an eight-grader at Harris. Salud America!, a Latino ...
Cancer survivors and healthcare providers are invited to explore diet, spirituality, and more at the inaugural Women’s Survivorship Summit from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 13, 2015, at the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, with support from the San Antonio Breast Cancer Collaborative, a coalition that includes the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. Register here for the summit, which will feature free food, speakers, and cancer resources. Dr. Virginia G. Kaklamani, leader of the breast cancer program at the Cancer Therapy and Research Center at the UT Health Science Center, will talk about the clinical and psychological challenges of being a cancer survivor and how to move ahead. Other experts will cover healing foods ...
Dr. J. Emilio Carrillo has spent his career breaking down healthcare barriers for New York residents. Carrillo, a researcher and clinician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College, infuses a cultural competency approach in the care of individual patients. Now his approach is being honored. Carrillo will be given the American Medical Association Foundation's 2015 Excellence in Medicine Award-Pride in the Profession on June 5, 2015, in Chicago. The award recognizes physicians who exemplify the medical profession's highest values: commitment to service, community involvement, altruism, leadership and dedication to patient care. Carrillo does just that. His strategy uses a patient-based, cross-cultural approach that helps bridge cultural barriers in the care ...
