A new study of Latino students indicates that snacking on peanut butter or peanuts up to four times a week could be the key to fighting childhood obesity, according to a news report. Researchers from the University of Houston Department of Health and Human Performance (HHP), Baylor College of Medicine, and Texas Woman’s University studied 257 Latino middle school students in Houston. Students were given a choice of accepting or not accepting a daily snack of peanuts or peanut butter offered at the end of the school day, according to the news report:
Over the course of the study, the students who were deemed favorable toward accepting peanuts or a peanut butter snack daily did so much more frequently than members of the group who were less likely to accept the snack choice. ...
Latino and other minority kids are disproportionately exposed to unhealthy foods and drinks, creating a need for increased access to and education about fresh fruit and vegetables. That’s why, for National Nutrition Month in March, we’re inviting YOU to use #SaludTues and tweet your favorite recipes and tools, and learn cool ways to “Veg Out”! WHAT: #SaludTues Tweetchat: Ways to "Veg Out" for Healthy Eating
TIME/DATE: Noon CST (1 p.m. EST) Tuesday, March, 8, 2016
WHERE: On Twitter , hashtag #SaludTues
HOST: Salud America! (@SaludToday)
CO-HOSTS: Recipe For Success (@R4SFoundation), The Coalition for Healthy School Food (@CoolSchoolFood), Chop Chop Magazine (@chopchopmag), the Chef Anne Foundation (@ChefAnnFnd) During the Tweetchat you’ll get to hear about the ...
Do you and your kids eat breakfast? Research shows that when kids have a nutritious breakfast, they do better academically and have less risk of obesity-related diseases. Unfortunately, about half of low-income students don’t eat breakfast, a recent study shows. For National School Breakfast Week (March 7-11), we at Salud America! (@SaludToday on social media) are using social media to promote healthy breakfast at school and at home for Latino and all kids. We invite you to snap a picture of you and/or your child having breakfast at home or at school and share it using #SaludNSBW / #NSBW16 on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for your chance to win a T-shirt and jump rope! Salud America!, a Latino childhood obesity network funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and ...
Children and teens that become or stay obese may face up to three times the risk for developing high blood pressure, according to a new report from the HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research in Bloomington, Minn. This has strong implications for Latino children, nearly 40% of whom are overweight or obese, compared to about 32% of all U.S. children. For the study, the researchers collected data on more than 100,000 children and teens in California, Colorado, and Minnesota—which have growing Latino population segments—between 2007 and 2011. During the study, 0.3% of the kids developed high blood pressure. The researchers found that kids ages 3-11 who went from overweight to obese had more than twice the odds of developing high blood pressure during the short ...
Question: How do you teach kids about farming, nutrition, and business all at the same time? Answer: A school garden! The "El Jardin, La Cocina y El Mercado" school garden at Bowie High School in El Paso, Texas, teaches students how to farm and grow plants like their ancestors, how to prepare healthy traditional Latino favorites, like nopales, and how to learn business skills by selling their produce at their own market. The garden just won the Salud America! #SaludHeroes video voting contest! Read their story or watch their winning video about the steps they took to plan, mobilize support for, design, and implement the garden, which is a outgrowth of collaboration among teacher Anna Suffle, school and district administrators, a local policymaker, and community groups and ...
Not getting enough sleep at nights may be causing your junk food cravings, according to a study. After scanning 23 young adults after a normal night’s sleep and after a sleepless night researchers at UC Berkeley found “impaired activity in the sleep-deprived brain’s frontal lobe, which governs complex decision-making, but increased activity in deeper brain centers that respond to rewards. Moreover, the participants favored unhealthy snack and junk foods when they were sleep deprived.” “What we have discovered is that high-level brain regions required for complex judgments and decisions become blunted by a lack of sleep, while more primal brain structures that control motivation and desire are amplified,” said Matthew Walker, a UC Berkeley professor of psychology and ...
In 2009, Lisa Ellis-Veraza traveled with Missionaries of Charity to deliver blankets, medicine, and other aid to people in Tamahu, Guatemala. Many in Tamahu struggle with poor health, relying on a diet of tortillas and sugary coffee, and lacking access to fresh water, fruits, and vegetables. A lot of children are severely malnourished. When aid workers tried to bring children to clinics and provide better nutrition, it was a struggle to gain the permission of their parents, Ellis-Veraza said. “My awareness of the need of access to health care and communication began to build on this trip, as I realized that not only having access to health care is needed, but also clear and culturally appropriate education on why health care is needed,” Ellis-Veraza said. “This way, ...
Un nuevo estudio sugiere que el ofrecer agua a los estudiantes puede ayudar a reducir la obesidad infantil, reporta CBS News. En los EE.UU. más del 39% de los niños latinos tienen sobrepeso o son obesos, pero los investigadores de la Universidad de Nueva York Langone encontraron que miles de niños en escuelas de Nueva York perdieron peso y redujeron su índice de masa corporal después de que dispensadores automaticos de agua fueron instalados. ." "Nos fijamos en más de un millón niños en poco más de 1.200 escuelas,“Brian Elbel, coautor del estudio y profesor asociado en el Centro Médico Langone de la Universidad de Nueva York, le comento a CBS. Según los autores del estudio, cuando los estudiantes tienen acceso facil a dispensadores de agua las ventas de leche de ...
Latino kids get too much sugar, but not enough fruits and vegetables. WATCH and VOTE for new Salud America! Salud Heroes who help fight sugar and push fruits/veggies by Feb. 29, 2016, and be entered in a random drawing to win a FREE T-shirt and jump rope! Sugar Bites. County leaders built a toothy bilingual campaign to urge parents to choose water over sugary drinks for kids in Contra Costa, Calif. Is Your Drink Sugar-Packed? Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff and health advocates want folks to reevaluate their sugar intake in the San Antonio area. Poets Fight the Fizz. Gabriel Cortez and other young minority poets joined with a health coalition to voice a counter-advertising campaign against sugary drinks in California. Rx for Produce. A clinic teamed up with a farmers market ...
