Local health and community leaders are encouraging people to drink more water through a new health campaign called, Live Sugar Freed. This new campaign is a pilot project of "A Healthy America"- a national movement to help prevent health problems by using the power of media for prevention. The goal is of the campaign is to help lower rates of obesity and diabetes in the tri-cities region in Tenn., where, according to a recent article, over one in eight adults have diabetes, and where sugary beverages are consumed more than once on a daily basis. Sugary-sweetened beverages are shown to increase the risk of developing type two diabetes and other health risks like heart disease. The Live Sugar Freed Campaign has sent the message of water as the healthier choice, throughout the ...
More countries are taking notice of the health risks associated with consumption of sugary drinks and are taxing sugary beverages, currently Chile, France, Hungary and Mexico have taxes on sugary drinks. Now more countries are taking notice, including Indonesia, India and the Philippines. Asian nations are looking towards a sugared beverage tax to help curb high rates of obesity and diabetes, reported a recent article. Indonesia originally vetoed a "luxury tax" on sugary drinks, however now an economic adviser recommended India levy a forty percent tax on sugared drinks, and soft drink companies are noticing. An estimation from Euromonitor showed the soft drink industry generates around 18 billion dollars in Asian nations, and media reports show how soft drink companies are ...
Pediatrician Dr. Alejandro Clavier is working on reversing diabetes and childhood obesity for his Latino patients at Saint Anthony Hospital in Chicago. In a recent article, Dr. Clavier says,"I tell my patients that if they can remember one thing, remember to drink water," he said. Dr. Clavier explains to his patients and their families the harm of sugary drinks and encourages them to only have water and homemade juices with no sugar available for the kids at home. Latino kids experience a higher risk for diet-related diseases like diabetes, and studies show that about 74 percent of Latino children have had a sugary drink by age two. Dr. Clavier encourages healthier foods in Latino homes, telling families to choose water and to remember that nothing is worth sacrificing their ...
To help bring awareness to the impacts that sugar can have on health risks such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity, a group of organizations is challenging Lincoln County residents to cut sugar out of their daily diets. The month-long educational efforts are being led by the Lincoln County Oral Health Coalition, in coordination with various other dental and medical partnerships, hoping to ensure the community to rethink their drinks and diets and increases oral and dental health. The Health Department offers the following tips to help residents decrease sugar consumption: First up Rethink your drink. Sugary beverages such as soda, juice, flavored milk and energy drinks contain an average of 10 teaspoons of sugar per serving.
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Want to drink more water? Win a free water bottle by using social media! The Drink Up campaign by Parntership for a Healthier America is asking twitter, facebook and instagram users to #DrinkUP and include the hashtag #MissionH20 to tell friends on social media outlest about what goals they have for the 2016 year! Make sure to use the hashtag #MissionH20 to post on facebook, Twitter or Instargram @urh2o to enter the giveaway. Winners will be announced on the social media pages from January 26th to February 26th. To learn how you can win a free water bottle, click ...
A recent news article stated that children in San Marcos, Texas have higher rates of obesity and overweight rates than the rest of the state and the nation. A new model for healthier kids menus, called Best Food For Families, Infants and Toddlers (Best Food FITS) can help restaurants implement change with healthier kid's menu alternatives. Researchers from Texas State University created the model with Nutrition and Professor, Sylvia Crixell. The Students with a grant of $150,000 reached out and discussed the new model of kids menus to various restaurants, encouraging them to implement the Best Food FIT's Menu to help combat obesity. Crixell explained that removing sugary beverages from kids' diets were significant. Latinos compromise 37.8 percent of the San Marcos population. ...
Sugary sweetened beverages, also known as SSB's are well known now for the health risks associated with consuming them daily. Latino kid's are even more at risk for these health risks as they consume on average more soda's and sugary drinks than their white peers. Studies also show, they are also more likely to live in food desserts where junk food and soda ads are targeted directly to them daily. So if ads are directed to parents and kids, what would happen if parents were directed to warning labels? In a recent study, researchers found that parents were less likely to choose soda or juice for their child if those drinks had health warning labels. Only 40% of the parents who saw the warning labels still chose the sugary drink option compared to 53% of parents who saw a ...
A new study from the JAMA Pediatrics researchers have reported one way kids can loose weight is to have easy access to water and less access to unhealthy sugary beverages. The researchers took water jet machines to schools across 483 New York City schools, finding a slight but significant decrease in the children's body mass index (BMI) measurements along with a decrease in students who were overweight. Researchers found students who used water jets had a .025 reduction of BMI for boys and a .022 standardized reduction for girls. About a four to five pound weight loss for a middle schooler. The study, led by Brian Elbel a professor of Population health and Health policy at New York University School of Medicine, also removed sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened beverages as ...
Funding raised from the city's soda tax are now being allocated throughout different health projects. According to a recent article, funding will be divided into three ways, all in a joint effort to continually focus on health. A grant for $637,500 will be given to the Berkeley Unified School District for cooking, gardening and nutrition programs, $637,500 will be given to community based agencies that have been approved through a competitive proposal process, and $225,00 will be given to the city's Public Health Division to coordinate, evaluate and report on the programs. Possible future funding will be looked at more for helping minority youth who are more at risk for health related diseases associated with sugary beverage consumption, like obesity diabetes and tooth decay. Two ...
