Numerous diseases can be detected early with an eye exam. According to a recent report by CBS News “61 million American adults are at risk for losing their eyesight, but only half visited an eye doctor in the past year.” Latino adults, who many lack the financial resources or insurance to visit an eye doctor regularly- are also at risk. Among the diseases that can be diagnosed early with an eye exam are: diabetes, high blood pressure and stroke. "The eye is unique in the body," Dr. Christopher Starr, an ophthalmologist at Weill Cornell Medical Center told CBS News "We can examine blood vessels, we can even examine the brain - the optic nerve is part of the brain - and we can see that in great detail on our eye exams. It's the only place in the body where that's ...
The end of the summer is near, and as school lunches must be packed, parents are wondering what to put in their kid's lunch. Will what a student eats, make him or her achieve better results in school? A recent article states that hydration, nutrition and sleep are key areas to help kids succeed in school. In fact, Mary Pat Turon-Findley MS, RD, LD, a clinical dietitian in the Division of Nutrition Therapy at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, encourages parents to start prepping kids with healthy meals, plenty of rest and sleep one week before school starts. Some Tips for a fresh start to the new school year are as follows: Start with a healthy morning meal ( fresh eggs, fruit, whole grains, low-fat dairy products)
Make sure students have a healthy ...
Policies to accommodate breastfeeding are extending beyond hospitals and workplaces and into professional baseball parks. The Cinncinati Reds opened the Pampers Nursing Suite at the Great American Ball Park in March and the Washington Nationals opened the Lansinoh Nursing Lounge at the Nationals Park during National Breastfeeding Week. These lounges or suites provide mothers with the option to nurse or pump in a cool, quiet and private place, rather than in the rowdy stands or in a public restroom. The purpose of breastfeeding policies are to make breastfeeding more accommodating and socially acceptable in order to support mother's breastfeeding goals, no matter what they are. Latinos attend more Major League Baseball games than those of other major sports leagues ...
In a Florida school district that didn’t provide health classes in high schools, a health educator, Risa Berrin, and her sister, Valerie Berrin, worked together to raise the bar on health education with their Health Information Project (HIP). HIP is a peer-to-peer program that allows students to teach each other about health problems, prevention, and how to access to local health resources toward reducing obesity, suicide, depression and other issues.
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Awareness: Risa Berrin was a health reporter for her college newspaper when she first started seeing how teens were unaware or misinformed about health and prevention. She became part of the solution, starting a career as a certified human growth and reproductive health educator. While teaching law classes at a Miami-area ...
Currently, 220,000 Hispanics are living with HIV in the United States and if trends continue the CDC estimates that 1 in 36 Latino men and 1 in 106 Latina women will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetime. The age group at highest risk are those between 13-24 years old, who accounted for 26 percent of new HIV infections. Among young gay and bisexual males the number of new HIV infections increased by 22 percent. A survey from 2013 found that 34 percent of high school students who reported being sexually active in the previous three months-41 percent did not use a condom. In order to help reduce the numbers of new HIV infections in the Latino community the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched “We can stop HIV One Conversation at a Time / Podemos ...
Científicos de la escuela de medicina de la universidad de Colorado descubrieron que las drogas recreacionales tienen un efecto más elevado en el cerebro de las mujeres que en el de hombres. Reportes demuestran que desde el 2008 el uso de drogas recreacionales por jóvenes latinos ha ido en aumento. El estudio, publicado en Radiology, analizo exámenes del cerebro a través de MRI en 127 hombres y mujeres; entre las personas estudiadas 59 de ellas (28 mujeres y 31 hombres) padecían de previa adicción a la cocaína, anfetaminas y metanfetaminas. Los MRI revelaron que mujeres que anteriormente habían sido adictas a las drogas habían perdido mucho más materia gris que los hombres que anteriormente habían sido adictos. “Mientras las mujeres previamente ...
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has officially proclaimed the week of August 1st to the 7th as National WIC breastfeeding week. Encouraging WIC participants and all mothers to breastfeed. USDA reports that if 90 percent of families were to breastfeed for the recommended 6 months after a child's birth, it would help prevent the U.S. from 900 deaths and $13 billion dollars of medical expenses each year. The benefits for Latina mom's to breastfeed are numerous, including: Helping prevent heart disease and other chronic diseases
Giving the baby ideal nutrients for growth and health
Creating a bond between mother and child
Reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes and childhood obesity
Saves money
Burns calories (even up to 500 calories a day)
May help ...
Using oral contraceptives more commonly known as “the pill” protects women from uterine cancer, Time reports. The study, published in the The Lancet Oncology, looked at data “ from 7,276 women with endometrial (uterine) cancer and 115,743 women without it from 36 different studies. They estimate in their findings that 400,000 cases of endometrial cancer have been prevented due to women taking oral contraceptives in the past 50 years, and 200,000 of these prevented cases are from the last 10 years.” According to the study the “protective effect” continues years after stopping the pill. “Women who use it when they are in their 20s or even younger continue to benefit into their 50s and older, when cancer becomes more common," Valerie Beral, a professor at Britain's ...
According to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) teens below the poverty line are doing better than their more affluent peers in getting the human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV), which protects against cervical cancer, NPR Health reports. The 2014 National Immunization Survey for Teens, shows that “among teenage girls ages 13 to 17 whose total family income was less than the federal poverty level for their family size, 67.2 percent have received the first dose of the human papillomavirus vaccine, compared to 57.7 percent for those at or above the poverty line. For teen boys, it's 51.6 percent compared to 39.5 percent.” One of the reasons for this trend, according to Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and ...
