Many Latino kids are faced with unhealthy snack choices and often are marketed these high- sugary options in candy and sodas more than their peers. The Center for Science in the Public Interest is asking parents to ask General Mills and Betty Crocker to stop confusing kids with advertising candy as fruit snacks. Nutritional facts are often hard to understand for parents, and studies show children are influenced by mascots and cartoons and foods advertised on television and in phone apps. To learn more about how you can get involved, click here. Copy & Share on Twitter: What are your kids eating? #SaludAmerica Learn more on what @CSPI is asking @GeneralMills ...
The Be Healthy School Grant Program will make $250,000 of money available for up to 25 schools to be awarded $10,000 grants from the 2016-2017 school year. This Blue Cross Blue Shield grant program allows schools across the state of Alabama, who enroll students in grades K through sixth and apply into the Healthy School Grant Program, a chance to implement school-based health and wellness programs that increase exercise, nutrition and parental involvement throughout the school year. Grant requests and applications will be accepted from now to March and schools considered for grant dollars schools must be located in Ala., serve students in grades K-6, and be public, private or non-profit. Only schools can be awarded the grant dollars, those not supported are for profit schools, ...
Obesity affects more than one-third of American adults, and teens who are obese can also face life threatening health risks like heart disease, high blood pressure, sleep apnea and cancer. According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation research, half of African-American and Latino children born after the year 2000 will develop diabetes or other chronic conditions. How can you bring awareness about the disease of obesity? Walk from Obesity is a fundraiser that raises awareness and funds to support advanced obesity research, professional education and access to care initiatives. The even is hosted by the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) Foundation which gathers individuals affected by obesity in cities across the nation to build an awareness and help ...
Many cities across the country are informing their citizens about the importance of healthy beverage consumption and being aware of the health risks associated with consuming sugary beverages. The "Rethink Your Drink" campaign encourages people to drink more water and fewer sugary beverages, and helps educate people about healthier beverage options. The city of Evanston, Ill. is working on helping inform citizens to "sip their way to better health" by launching the ReThink Your Drink Campaign on April 21st, 2016. Leaders of the community in health will raise glasses of fruit and or herb-infused water and pledge to drink more water. Dr. Chehab will also present to all attendees the amounts of sugar hidden in popular beverages.
About 22 percent of Latino high-school students ...
Students across the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), participated in the Healthy Schools Campaign healthy cooking contests. Students were challenged to create a nutritious lunch that includes fresh fruit and vegetables, meets USDA nutrition guidelines, be under 760 calories and costs less than $1.70. The challenge allows students to win a chance to represent Los Angeles across the state and serve the model meal in an all-expenses paid Cooking up Change competition in the capitol. The winner could go on from there to serve the meal to congress and become a model meal for schools across the country. Having healthy options and creative ways to get kids involved in creating healthy meals is a innovative way to change school food environments. Studies show that when ...
The United States House of Representatives just passed the Global Food Security Act (H.R. 1576) a new bill that takes steps to fight worldwide hunger by empowering and supporting small-scale local farmers. The Global Food Security Act authorizes a U.S. global food an nutrition security strategy to help support farmers in small scale sustainable farming. “In the world’s poorest countries, malnutrition and stunting affect hundreds of millions of people and undermine the development of entire countries. This tragedy is made all the worse because it is completely preventable," Representative McCollum said on her site. "The Global Food Security Act invests in hardworking smallholder farmers around the world to reduce hunger and improve nutrition. In particular, it empowers women ...
Members of Minnesotans for Healthy Kids Coalition, a statewide coalition of around 25 organizations that work on policies to help address childhood obesity, gathered together in March to purpose a healthy food access bill for the many people who are facing little to no healthy food access in Minnesota. According to a 2011 project from the Trust for American's Health and the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, 14 percent of children ages 10 to 17 were obese in Minn. The coalition talked with several steak holders about what should be included in a bill for healthy food access for Minn. and many wanted the Dept. of agriculture to house the loans, technical assistance and felt the state could house the program with ten million dollars a year, in the form of loans grants or technical ...
Could activity labeling encourage people to do physical activity or not eat that bag of chips? What is activity labeling? Calories are usually shown on food labels, but what if the amount of time to walk or burn off those calories were also on the food? A new study asked more than 800 parents to look at a fast food menu online and pick a meal for their child, parents who saw the calories and number of minutes of exercise to burn off those calories, didn't order a lower calorie meal but said they would encourage their child to exercise. Interestingly enough, another study has shown that teens beverage choice was influenced by activity labeling signs in the store. However other studies have shown that people continue to order high-calorie foods, but some are three times more ...
This March, Grow Hartford Youth, a youth led group that works to give youth a voice, launched the "10 Slices of Justice" campaign for Hartford Public Schools in the downtown Hartford Public Library. The launch was held within the Hartford Arts & Activism Fair, where youth stood up with their campaign to help discuss solutions for problems they see within their school lunches, like small portion size, and quality of lunches. The campaign was all youth led, and where students were able to talk about what were the issues in their school lunches. They discussed the points of the "10 Slices of Justice" campaign, including changes they wanted to see like bigger portions, better quality foods made from scratch, variety of local options, culturally appropriate foods, and more ...
