A recent report from the Food and Nutrition Services found that obesity rates among children on WIC have continued to decline. The number of one-year-olds in WIC who are at or above the 97th percentile for weight compared to length decreased from 12% in 2010 to 10.2% in 2014. In addition, the report states that the proportion of children ages 2-4 who were considered obese decreased from 14.6% to 13.7%. Childhood obesity is a serious problem among the Latino community. One in four U.S. kids are already overweight or obese by age 2-5, with a higher rate among Latino kids (30%) than white kids (21%). Latinos comprise 32% of all WIC users and nearly 50% of all Latino children in the United States are served by WIC. Making the positive connection between nutrition and health, the ...
Purposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on March 29th, a new rule is setting the standard to try to help schools get on board with school meal nutrition standards. According to a recent article, any school food authority or school administration that is not following the standards set for child nutrition programs may be fined. Child nutrition programs include the National School Lunch Program, the Child and Adult Care Food Program, the School Breakfast Program, and the Summer Food Service Program and state administrative expense funds. In the first offense, schools would be fined one percent of meal reimbursements for the fiscal year for not correcting mismanagements of any program, or failing to correct repeated violations of program requirements. Schools can be penalized up ...
A new Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study shows that school lunches are getting healthier but there are still factors that limit healthy foods for Latino students, minority students and students from lower socioeconomic status. Fresh fruit and salad bar access increased from 16.4 percent to 31.5 percent, but mainly in the western area of the nation. Schools in the Northeast, Midwest, or South of the country were less likely to offer salad bars. Schools are where kids consume most of their daily calories, having healthy fresh fruit and vegetable options available may help decrease Latino students high risks for diet-related diseases like diabetes. To read the full study, click here. To see more of why it is important for Latino kids to have healthy school ...
Getting kids to eat a healthy lunch at school isn't always easy, reports a recent article, however, a program by Cornell University, called 'Smarter Lunchrooms' may be helping kids get excited about healthier school lunches. Using wordplay like "awesome apple" in menus and marketing "grab n' go" meals might be helping kids choose the healthier option first as kids in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) have often opted for the first food offered to them. The program is part of the Smarter Lunchrooms Movement, developed to help guide healthy research-based lunchrooms for kids that are sustainable and low cost. The program aims to provide low to no-cost solutions to help school lunches with managing portion sizes, increasing convenience, visibility, and taste expectations ...
Más del 39 por ciento de los niños latinos sufren de sobrepeso u obesidad en los EE.UU., de acuerdo a estadísticas de Salud America! Para educar a los padres y niños Kaiser Permanente- La Salud Permanente ha publicado un nuevo video animado que enseña a los padres y niños cómo cocinar deliciosas comidas saludables que los miembros de la familia con diabetes también pueden disfrutar! El video también incluye consejos como: Aprender a llenar el plato, al equilibrar las porciones Cómo complementar sus comidas con una bebida Cómo preparar una sopa o estofado con el mismo ...
The University of Southern California (USC) published some big results in 2016. They found that Latinas who eat processed meats, like lunch meat, bacon, and sausage, may have an increased risk for breast cancer; however, this association was not found among white women. According to Mariana Stern, senior author, director of graduate programs in molecular epidemiology, and an associate professor in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC: "Few studies look at breast cancer risk factors specific to Latinas. Our focus was to understand if meat consumption is associated with breast cancer and whether there are differences between Latinas and white women. To our knowledge, this is the first study that has looked at meat intake among ...
New cooking classes at Weymouth Middle School are helping kids think twice about how to make a pizza crust and how to eat at home with new ingredients in their recipes. John Mullaney, the health class teacher said this idea came up after brainstorming ideas, and he discussed the idea of creating new healthier recipes with the school district's dietitian, Kelsey Massis of Chartwells Food Service. He wanted to help kids come up with new ingredients that use less sugar and less flour with his student's recipes while cooking in class. Mullaney hoped that kids would be creative, and they were. Students like Brook Pelley used skim milk and low-fat cheese in her macaroni and cheese, and Brook Ferbert who used a salsa that had a variety of fresh vegetables. Other students used ...
Fuel Up To Play 60 teaches kids football moves, and interactive games helping kids move more in school and eat healthier. A launch to help promote the program recently took place Wednesday, March 17th at Redskins Park where student participated in an "Iron Chef" style competition to create the best smoothie. Students from three elementary schools who had pre-submitted their recipes worked at preparing a healthy dairy-based smoothie for judges and special Redskin football players to try. Judges enjoyed a 'Berry Banana Blitz' that had low-fat greek yogurt, a 'Sunshine Burst', which had fresh fruit and flax seeds, and a 'Laney Loo Loo' smoothie, that included chia seeds into the fresh fruit mix. Winner of the competition was Loudoun County Public Schools, receiving $40,000 from ...
Healthy cooking challenges are not just popular on TV, now schools in Fairfax Count, Va. are cooking up healthier meals in the Real Food For Kids (RFFK)'s Culinary Challenge and Wellness Expo to change school menus, offering kids the chance to cook up something different, healthy and tasty. To help change school menus to offer more healthy and tasty foods, the challenges gives kids the chance to cook up something different, healthy and tasty and help sprout new ideas into the school menu, all while staying in school budget limits. Twelve Fairfax County Schools competed for awards in three categories, including Smart snacks, Grab 'N Go, and Makeover Lunch Challenge. The challenge was to make a meal that would work within the schools nutrition, portion and cost standards. Judges ...
