While U.S. obesity rates appear to have leveled off, Hispanics and Blacks have strikingly higher obesity rates than their White and Asian peers, Bloomberg reports. The good news is that overall adult obesity is not rising. About one-third of American adults (about 78 million people) are obese, about the same number as across the last decade, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report was led by researcher Dr. Cynthia L. Ogden. But racial/ethnic disparities in obesity rates continue to be alarming. About 43 percent of Hispanics and 48 percent of blacks are obese, compared with 33 percent of whites and 11 percent of Asians, Bloomberg reports. Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez, director the Salud ...
The Healthy Food Access Portal highlights policy efforts improve fresh food access in underserved communities across the country and relevant resources to serve the community members and policymakers working to improve access to healthy food retail. Check out all the news and resources ...
The East Austin community has seen some hard times. Most families in the neighborhood many of them Latino, make less than $30,000 a year. Fresh, local, healthy food is absent in the community. Allen Rogers wanted to change that. He has opened the Rosewood Community Market, a 600 square-foot market filled with rows of fresh produce plucked straight from Central Texas soil. Rogers gets chicken, beef, fruits and vegetables and more from farmers in the region and one produce distributor in Austin. Rogers hopes the market will become an important part of the East Austin community. He's already hired some youth from the local high school to work at the store. Read more about Rosewood ...
Very interesting new Associated Press story examines how the rise of the Latino population is flavoring changes and spicing up people's food choices:
Salsa overtaking ketchup as America's No. 1 condiment was just the start.
These days, tortillas outsell burger and hot dog buns; sales of tortilla chips trump potato chips; and tacos and burritos have become so ubiquitously "American," most people don't even consider them ethnic.
Welcome to the taste of American food in 2013.
The story notes that Hispanic foods and drinks were an $8 billion market last year, according to Packaged Facts. By 2017, that number may reach $11 billion. Traditional Hispanic flavors are becoming more mainstream: Marie Callender's has grilled shrimp street tacos with chipotle ranch ...
Latinos comprise about 17% of the U.S. population. By 2050, they are expected to rise to 30%. Given this growth, Latinos have a critical role to play in helping build a "green economy"—one that centers on environmental health and sustainable business, according to a report by Green for All published on Latina Lista. Here are some examples: Gabriel Mandujano founded Wash Cycle Laundry, a Pittsburgh company that shrinks the environmental footprint of the laundry business and provides job opportunities for local workers.
Diana Teran started La Tuana Tortillas, a Tucson, Ariz., company that provides healthy food options with its natural, vegan, sustainable tortillas.
Luis Perales founded Tierra y Libertad Organization and is working with local leaders in Tucson on a Barrio ...
Folks in the largely Latino South Texas city of Brownsville are working hard to make health a priority by bringing environmental changes to the community. In October 2013, they were named as a finalist in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (RWJF) Roadmap to Health Contest--a national competition in which six communities working to fight obesity will be selected as winners and awarded a $25,000 grant toward improving the city's health culture Learn more about some of the healthy changes like the the Brownsville Farmers' market, CicloBia, and the old rail tracks that were turned into a fitness trail, in this news article. Way to go ...
ChangeLab Solutions developed the Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Playbook to provide 10 strategies for communities and states to consider if they want to reduce sugary drink consumption in their community. The strategies are organized in a sequence that many communities have followed before. Click here to download ...
U.S. Hispanics are more likely to purchase grocery foods, dairy, and bread from convenience stores than non-Hispanics, according to a report by The NPD Group, a leading global information company. On average, Hispanics make almost two more visits a month than non-Hispanics to major oil chain convenience stores, according to the report, which examines the typical convenience store shopping behavior of Hispanics by level of acculturation and how it compares to non-Hispanics. The data indicates Hispanics use convenience stores to supplement or as a substitute for grocery stores. Here are some fast facts from the report: Hispanics buy more dairy products, bread, fresh food, grocery foods, perishable groceries and prepackaged foods at convenience stores than ...
Have some free time? Want to hear about ways minority communities are working with local officials to create lasting, healthy policy changes? Check out the webinar, "Multicultural Community Engagement: Putting Childhood Obesity Prevention Strategies to Work in Diverse Communities" hosted by Leadership for Healthy Communities. Presenters shared examples of successful policy initiatives to engage and empower diverse communities and discuss the implications of these efforts in the fight against childhood obesity. Presenters included: Ruben Brambila, M.P.H., project manager, Healthy RC Kids, City of Rancho Cucamonga, California
Dr. Jasmine Opusunju, program coordinator, CAN DO Houston
Pedro Arista, STRIVE/REACH program manager, Asian & Pacific Islander American Health ...
