Editor’s Note: This is the story of a graduate of the 2015 Èxito! Latino Cancer Research Leadership Training program. Apply now for 2016. Jasmin Berrios
Houston, Texas Taking a cue from her father who worked hard and still made time to spend with his family, Jasmin already applies those same values to her own career and personal life. Her hard work shows: she’s the first from her family to get college degrees, and she’s already developed a great knack for improving research methods. Throughout life, Jasmin has made a difference in her community by volunteering in various community organizations; this helped her realize how a public health approach could make a greater impact. Jasmin received her bachelor's in Health from Prairie View A&M University and her ...
Linda Joseph, a special needs teacher in Florida, with some of the highest drowning rates in the country, wanted to make sure her students could swim and weren’t afraid of the water. As someone who values whole-child health, Joseph knows that water safety boosts confidence and opens doors to many water-based physical activities and associated mental and physical benefits. She went to a nearby pool for information and learned about and enrolled her students in free water safety education lessons through SWIM Central.
Fear of Drowning is High in Florida Linda Joseph, a special needs teacher at Lauderdale Lakes Middle School, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (13.7% Latino), lost both of her parents to a drowning accident when she was 16. She became fearful of water and didn’t learn to ...
Derek Dimas, a registered nurse had a fun idea to get kids to eat healthier. Believing that kids needed a fun and positive environment to learn about fruits and vegetables, he invented a program called "Fun with Fruits." While in their physical education classes, students within the Corpus Christi School district learn how to create easy-to-make fruit and veggie kabobs. Dimas also invites parents to attend the classes, hoping to inspire healthy eating for the whole family. In a recent article, Dimas explained the need for this type of program, "I felt moved because these kids may not outlive their parents because of obesity. I've heard of three-year-olds with diabetes and young people with heart disease," he said. Dimas spends his own money to provide the fruits, vegetables, ...
Eagle Mountain Elementary School, in Ft. Worth, TX (34.1% Latino), is tripling their time for recess, from 20 minutes to one hour, during the 2015-2016 school year as part of a project to model the Finnish school system. The project’s designer is Texas Christian University kinesiologist Debbie Rhea. She recognized that not only do Finnish students consistently score at or near the top in international education rankings, but that Finnish students also get more time for recess than American kids. Recess will be four times a day for 15-minutes. Teachers were concerned about losing classroom time at first, but see that kids are fidgeting less, more focused, and learning more. “If you want a child to be attentive and stay on task, and also if you want them to encode the ...
A webinar focusing on a new report from Healthy Eating Research will be presented on Wednesday, February 10th 2016, at 12pm CST. Healthy Eating Research is a national program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that supports research on environmental and policy strategies that have strong potential to promote healthy eating among children. The free, 1 hour webinar will be on Minimum Stocking Levels and Marketing Strategies of Healthful Foods for Small Retail Food Stores. Presenters include Professors and Research Assistants of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and Tracy Fox, President of Food, Nutrition & Policy Consultants, LLC. To learn more and sign up for the webinar, click ...
Hoping to encourage schools to enjoy healthier local fresh foods, Park City along with concerned school parents are working toward fresh and non-processed meals for the Park City School District. Partners concerned for the school, are hoping for the school board to reconsider unhealthy food that is currently being served to students. Presenters including parents, dietitians and the non-profit EATS, requested changes on Tuesday 19th, 2016, to the school board, to remove anything artificial in school lunches. Although the school has foods that are acceptable under the national nutritional guidelines, they have asked for the schools to remove, artificial colors, preservatives, and sweeteners along with removal of high fructose corn syrup, bleached flour, trans fats and hormones ...
This February 18, 2016, Food Forward will hold an event at the Florida Atlantic University about healthier, sustainable and cost-effective meals for schools and institutions. Participants will also learn how one institution cut food costs by 20 percent and gained $165,000 of free publicity.
Click Here for more info and to sign up! Seats are available on a first come first serve basis. The event is for any and all foodservice professionals.
The event is free and includes: Breakfast and meet & greet
Thought-provoking presentations and panel discussions
Cooking demonstration and luncheon
A complimentary 270-page cookbook, posters, and more* When: February 18, 2016, 9:30 a.m. - 3:15 p.m. at the Florida Atlantic University.
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Majestic Palm Room UN 31 Room ...
Texas Grow! Eat! Go! program received the National Extension Diversity Award at the annual meeting of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities in November 2015. The award honors an extension program that contributes to achieving and sustaining diversity and pluralism. The national Cooperative Extension association and the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded the five-year program. Collaboration from AgriLife Extension, Texas A&M University, the University of Texas School of Public Health, and the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health created the program to improve physical activity and eating behaviors of families and children living in low-income and underserved areas of ...
Colorado Health Foundation's #HealthiestCO Listening tour will be visiting cities all across Colorado. The tour allows grantees, community residents, and local leaders to share their perspectives and stories on health in their cities. The tour will visit 11 regions within Colorado and conclude the tour in the Spring of 2016 with the Building Better Health conference. To learn more about the tour and see dates and locations, click ...
