Smoking has been associated with cancers and other chronic diseases, but a new study from Stanford School Medicine now links smoking with earning less and having a harder time finding a job, Science Daily reports. For the study, researchers studied job hunters in the San Francisco area between 2013 and 2015. About half were smokers and half were not. After a year, twice as many nonsmokers had jobs. “Among smokers re-employed at one year, on average, their hourly income was $5 less relative to reemployed nonsmokers: $15.10 versus $20.27, a 25.5 percent difference," said Judith Prochaska of Stanford University and colleagues wrote in their report, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association's JAMA Internal Medicine. According to researchers, the average cost ...
Smoking has been associated with cancers and other chronic diseases, but a new study from Stanford School Medicine now links smoking with earning less and having a harder time finding a job, Science Daily reports. For the study, researchers studied job hunters in the San Francisco area between 2013 and 2015. About half were smokers and half were not. According to the study, after a year, twice as many nonsmokers had jobs. “Among smokers re-employed at one year, on average, their hourly income was $5 less relative to reemployed nonsmokers: $15.10 versus $20.27, a 25.5 percent difference," said Judith Prochaska of Stanford University and colleagues wrote in their report, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association's JAMA Internal Medicine. According to ...
What happens when people get "priced out" of the homes they've lived in for decades? People like Luis Granados step up. Granados, Christopher Gil, and other leaders of the nonprofit Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) didn't stand by when a tech boom in San Francisco’s Mission District brought in higher-priced homes and threatened to push out lower-income families. They embarked on a mission to create 100% affordable housing in the area.
The rising housing costs in San Francisco
Since 1973, the Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) offers free financial services to lower-income families in San Francisco’s Mission District, a 30% Latino neighborhood where most rent their homes, said Christopher Gil, the group’s senior content marketing manager. The ...
Patients with early signs of Alzheimer’s disease, a condition that can affect Latinos and all people, often have trouble remembering recent experiences. However, a new study by MIT indicates that Alzheimer’s disease doesn’t destroy memories; instead “they just can’t be easily accessed,” Univision reports. For the study, researchers stimulated specific areas of the brain of lab rats with blue light and found that they were able to access memories they previously couldn’t remember. “The important point is, this a proof of concept," said Susumu Tonegawa, lead study author. "That is, even if a memory seems to be gone, it is still there. It’s a matter of how to retrieve it.” According to the authors, the results of their study show that there’s hope for a cure ...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than one-third of all adults in the United States. As part of National Nutrition Month, the financial site WalletHub analyzed the 100 most populated U.S. metro areas to determine the ones with the most weight-related health problems. The “holistic” approach included overweight and obesity into its findings and examined 14 key metrics, including “percentage of physically inactive adults,” and “percentage of adults eating fewer than one serving of fruits and vegetables per day,” to determine their findings. According to the research findings, the “fattest” metro area in America is Memphis, TN (6.54% Latino population), while the “thinnest” was Honolulu, HI (5.89% Latino). The city with the ...
In March 2016, Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets held the second annual Vision Zero Cities Conference, in New York City, NY (28.6% Latino) for traffic safety experts, advocates, bereaved families, elected officials and the public to exchange ideas and discuss how to implement and enforce best practices to prevent road deaths and serious injuries. Former New York City Transportation Commissioner, Janette Sadik-Kahn believes that when you change the streets, you change the world. Not only are road deaths and serious injuries a public health issue, but unsafe streets are a major hurdle for people trying to be physically active, stay healthy, or to get to work. Thus, traffic safety is a public health issue. When people don't feel safe to walk or bike near ...
Transportation Alternatives has organized a campaign to get people to pledge to quit using the word "accident" when talking about a motor vehicle "crash." Transportation Alternatives fights for the installation of infrastructure improvements that reduce speeding and traffic crashes, save lives and improve everyday transportation for all New Yorkers. Consider this: Planes don’t have accidents. They crash. Altering language like this is a critical piece in re-framing the problem-unsafe streets designed for vehicles rather than for people. Altering language can also play an important role in highlighting issues in traffic fatalities and injuries as well as issues in access to safe streets. Unfortunately, many people in low-income neighborhoods are at higher risk for traffic ...
Are you concerned about speeding cars in your neighborhood? Residents in San Antonio can request traffic calming measures, like speed humps, speed enforcement, signage, pavement markings and medians using the Traffic Calming Handbook. Developed by the City of San Antonio Department of Public Works, the Traffic Calming Handbook aims to improve street features to reduce the negative effect of speeding and cut through traffic. The Handbook is also available in Spanish. Improving street features to improve safety is critical to promote walking, physical activity, and overall health and wellbeing. This Handbook outlines the process a resident must go through to request a traffic calming measure. It begins by filling out a 2-page form. The first page requires information about ...
Studies have shown that mascots, cartoons, and familiar faces often influence children's choices on food and unfortunately usually unhealthy foods. Marketing companies have targeted kids in various ways over the years, bringing in familiar cartoon characters or brand mascots into the commercials of high fat and high sugar food products, influencing food choices. Many companies have moved away from unhealthy food marketing to children and have joined the Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative (CFBAI), which commits companies to only market healthy products to children younger than 12. However, recent research from Healthy Eating Research shows that there are still opportunities for food and beverage companies to ensure healthier foods and beverages are the only ...
