Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests this year’s flu vaccine is one of the most effective in years, Pulse Headlines reports. According to the CDC, those “who got the vaccine were 59% less likely to get sick with influenza than people who didn’t.” "This means that getting a flu vaccine this season reduced the risk of having to go to the doctor because of flu by nearly 60 percent," said the CDC's Dr. Joseph Bresee. "It's good news and underscores the importance and the benefit of both annual and ongoing vaccination efforts this season." The CDC recommends annual vaccination for everyone 6 months or ...
Health messaging is a critical way to empower health equity. But without relevant, culturally competent health messages, Latinos will continue to face vast health disparities in diabetes, heart disease, and certain cancers, especially in the face of conflicting unhealthy marketing by the food and beverage industry. Let’s use #SaludTues on April 12, 2016, during National Minority Health Month, to tweet about how healthcare professionals, public health professionals, city leaders, businesses, schools, and you can alter language and images in their health messaging to promote health for Latinos. WHAT: #SaludTues Tweetchat: “How to Alter Health Messaging to Promote Prevention for Latinos”
TIME/DATE: 1-2 p.m. EST Tuesday, April 12, 2016
WHERE: On Twitter with hashtag ...
Plans to put a soda tax on the November ballot were announced from Oakland Council member Annie Campbell Washington this week. Washington stated in a recent article that for her it was all about the public health crisis, saying that "Sugar is the new tobacco." Sugary beverages have been linked to chronic disease like diabetes and research show that one in every three children is at risk for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes and other chronic diseases that used to affect only adults. According to a local article , one in seven Oakland youth drink two or more sodas each day, increasing their risks for diet-related diseases. Washington plans to run a grass-roots campaign to help push the efforts, and also plans to have an advisory board of residents, doctors, and ...
With funding from The California Endowment, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation's Healthy Schools Program has launched a new initiate, Active Students, Active Minds, to help elementary, middle, and high schools in California (38.6% Latino) provide 60 minutes of physical activity for kids through a 60 minute equation (see image for equation). Any school staff member is eligible to register their school for free. When a school registers to participate, a school representative will have access to resources, trainings, assistance from national experts, and a customizable assessment tool and action plan, and will be prompted throughout the year to solve the 60 minute equation. Each week, schools will receive 2 simple classroom breaks/activities and a bonus activity to reach the ...
New 30-second videos produced by Sesame Street and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) aim to teach kids how to avoid contracting the virus, NBC Health reports. The videos uses the famous Sesame Street characters to explain to children the importance of covering and sealing all water containers to avoid mosquitos from breeding. It also reminds children to wear long sleeves whenever possible. Watch video one and video two! Learn more about Zika and summer ...
A new study suggests that children who have not yet reached age two and are given three or more courses of antibiotics are more likely to be obese. The study put on by Gastroenterology researchers, looked at over 21,000 children in The Health Improvement Network, a population-representative data set from 1995 to 2013 in the United Kingdom. All children that were eligible subjects for the study had to have been registered within three months of birth with height and weight measurements records also recorded within twelve months of their fourth birthday. Researchers studied other factors including adjusting for maternal and sibling obesity, maternal diabetes, socioeconomic status and more. The results showed that antibiotic exposure was associated with an increased risk of obesity ...
The Springfield City Council has voted to authorize seven million dollars to help support a growing meals program for the state's second largest public school system. The money will help purchase and renovate a warehouse dedicated to help save taxpayers money and provide healthier school meals for the city's 30,000 impoverished kids, by housing all food-related operations for the district into one place. The school's department of finance chief Patrick Roach explained that the warehouse will help save the program over half a million dollars a year, and help create a culinary and nutrition center that will allow for more scratch cooking and less processed foods. The warehouse will also allow high school students learning opportunities and provide 40 additional full-time jobs to ...
Datos de un nuevo estudio sugieren que 1 de cada 5 personas (18% de hombres y el 21% de las mujeres) serán obesas para el año 2025, informa CNN. El estudio, publicado en la revista The Lancet, comparo tendencias del índice de masa corporal de más de 200 países entre 1975 y 2015, y llegó a la conclusión de que "[en] cuatro décadas, la obesidad mundial se ha triplicado entre los hombres y se duplicó entre las mujeres". Otros hallazgos clave del estudio fueron los siguientes: • Más hombres padecen de obesidad que de malnutrición en 136 países y más mujeres padecen de obesidad que de malnutrismo en 165 paises.
• En 1975, el 2,6% de la población mundial era obesa; en 2014, ese número aumentó a 8,9%.
• En 2025, el estudio estima que el 43% de las mujeres y el ...
A new study by The Endocrine Society has found that BMI measurements above the 85th percentile at six, twelve or eighteen months is a strong predictor of severe obesity by age six in a child's life. The study looked at nearly 4,000 children determining their body mass index (BMI), and found that high BMI's measured between six and eighteen months of age accurately predicted which infants were more prone to have early-childhood obesity. A portion of the children, 2, 649 were from a highly Latino population from Aurora, Colo., which had an increased chance of severe obesity at age 6 by threefold to nine-fold. Latino kids are more likely to be at risk for diet related diseases like diabetes and obesity, studies show. It is recommended by the researchers of this group that ...
