Did you know Applebees and IHOP restaurants have taken soda off kids menus and New York City Restaurants now show consumers which items are high in sodium? Choosing the healthier option when eating out can sometimes be confusing as most restaurant foods have high levels of either fat, sugar or sodium. MomsRising.org and Center for Science in the Public Interest are holding a #FoodFri Tweet Chat, Friday, December 18th, 10-11am PT/1-2pm ET to discuss how to eat healthfully while eating out. Participants will offer helpful suggestions for eating out, discuss efforts to improve restaurant kids' menus, and highlight ways to support access to healthier options in the community. To join this discussion, follow #FoodFri on ...
According to a recent article, vending sales have declined by one percent to $4.5 billion in 2014. This is a great advancement in healthier choices for most schools and cities, that are changing vending machine options to encourage healthier foods. However, not all vending machines are made the same, many include highly processed foods that are high in sodium and sugar. Working on the future of vending machine sales growth, is PepsiCo Inc. with their new marketing for vending machines, the Hello Goodness Brand. Thier aim is to help bypass the many health concerns that schools and cities across the nation are concerned about with soda and candy as being the main options in vending machines. The new machines are planned to hold more "healthy" options, including Naked Juice, Lays Oven ...
New healthy food and activity standards have been passed in Colorado child care centers thanks to the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) Office of Early Childhood and the Colorado Board of Health. Children will now have access to healthier foods, beverages, and enjoy more physical activity and less screen time. Rules set for the governing of licensed child care facilities are as follows: meals and snack must meet current USDA nutrition requirements
no sugary drinks are allowed except 100% juice, twice a week.
60 minutes of physical activity will be required, part time centers are required 30 mins a day of physical activity
Screen time will be limited to 30 minutes a week for TV, and 15-minute increments for tablets and computers for no more than 30 minutes a ...
After learning about local agriculture five years ago from his local community farm, Noah Kopf, a 16-year-old teen started a challenge to eat only food he could grow and produce for 30 days. Kopf called it the "Homegrown 30", inspired by a month of what he calls backyard eating. Years ago his interest began in farming after volunteering at his local Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm, then Kopf later worked at a youth farm, called The Farm Project. While in High school, he also farmed with his school's farm in Newton, Mass. After thinking about how much produce the farm was providing, Kopf started wondering if he and his co-workers could live solely off the farm's produce for a month. Testing his theory of living off the farm, Kopf harvested food from the school ...
Some Members of Congress, food companies, and trade organizations are urging Congress to roll back school nutrition. Have they considered what that would mean for kids’ health? Here are 9 reasons rolling back school nutrition is a bad idea. ...
On The Move is a new research study to prevent diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol and other chronic diseases in Latinos, conducted by the Healthy Aging Research and Technology Solutions (HARTS) lab at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. Researchers send three-to-five text messages per week to study participants-Latinos ages 45 and older- based on participant's personal goals, over the 18-month study, to help Latinos improve their daily habits to improve their health and reduce their risk of chronic disease. Text messages will provide nutrition and physical activity tip and advice. "This program is for people who are busy, who lead a busy life, but have a chance to take a phone call, or have the chance to read a text message that’s going to help them in a way ...
Decades of conflicting health, fitness, and weight-loss messages has lead to major confusion about what Latinos and all Americans need to do to be healthy. Every Body Walk! is clarifying health messages by redefining physical activity. "We could be raising the first generation in modern society to end up with statistically shorter life expectancies than their parents," said Mark Fenton, adjunct associate professor at Tufts University. "And it won't be because of some infectious disease. It will be the diseases of sedentary living, like diabetes."
Walking or Running
Which sounds more doable on a daily basis: walking or running? Walking! Regardless of fitness level or weight status, complex biological and molecular processes occur within our body when we walk, which ...
Update December 8th, 2015: New H-E-B Grocery Store opens for downtown San Antonio, giving access to healthier foods for the area. Since 2013, talk of a new grocery store for downtown San Antonio has been in the works, with the city's officials, community leaders and local grocers. H-E-B was selected to be the company to provide the new grocery store in urban downtown. H-E-B's new store, South Flores Market, officially opened to downtown residents, at seven in the morning, on Wednesday, December 7, 2015. Community shoppers can now enjoy fresh produce along with a bike rack with a "fix your bike" kit, a water station for dogs, parking and a 24-hour gas station. The store is much smaller compared to other designs of H-E-B stores, but still offers fresh produce and available fresh ...
New Research from the University of Melbourne, declares that sugar-free drinks with acidic components may be just as damaging to teeth as sugary beverages. Sugary beverages have been known to cause decay, but new research states that dental erosion can happen with sugar-free products as well. The research was tested with 23 different types of sugar-free drinks including sports drinks like Gatorade, Powerade, and sugar-free Coca-Cola. Drinks that include ingredients like acidic additives like citric acid, and phosphoric acid, are huge components of dental erosion. The study's co-author, Eric Reynolds recommends that after drinking these products, rinse your mouth with water and wait one hour to brush to prevent removal of the softened tooth layer. To learn more about this ...
