According to the Skin Cancer Foundation Latinos are more prone to be diagnosed with skin cancer at a much later stage than others in the United States. The deadliest form of skin cancer is melanoma affecting primarily women ages 25-29. According to the doctors most people have the misperception that skin cancer only affects adults, but recent studies show the incidence among children has been growing over the last couple of years. “This misperception that if you're a kid, there's no way you can have skin cancer, whether it be non-melanoma or melanoma skin cancer, is very misleading,” Dr. Adam Friedman told Fox Health. While skin cancer mostly affects fair-skinned individuals everyone is at-risk. "Anyone can get skin cancer. Skin cancer does not care what color your skin is, what ...
The leading causes of death among Latinos are diabetes and cardiovascular disease, according to the first national annual report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report evaluates the health risks Latinos were exposed to in comparison to non-Hispanic whites in the U.S between 2009 and 2013. Despite less Latinos dying from the top 10 most lethal diseases in the United States more Latinos die from diabetes, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis. The report also found that among Latinos smoking is less common (14%) than among whites (24%), but is high among Puerto Rican males (26 %) and Cuban males (22%). The CDC also found differences among Hispanics born in the U.S. and those born abroad. Latinos born outside the United States are more prone to suffer ...
Dr. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, a long-time Latino health researcher, will become the new director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIHMD is the NIH's leading organization for planning, reviewing, coordinating and evaluating its minority health and disparities research activities. In his new role, Dr. Pérez-Stable will oversee a $270 million budget to conduct and support research, training, research capacity and infrastructure development, public education and information dissemination programs to improve minority health. Dr. Pérez-Stable leads the northwest region of Redes En Acción, a national Latino cancer research network funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and led by Dr. Amelie G. ...
Cinco de Mayo (May 5) is the perfect time to celebrate Latino heritage, culture, music and food. But too often that means leaving good nutrition behind. Let’s use #SaludTues on May 5, 2015, to tweet recipes, tips, and other resources that can make sure we eat healthy and stay active while we celebrate the best of Latino culture on Cinco de Mayo: WHAT: #SaludTues Tweetchat: “How to Have a Healthy Cinco de Mayo”
DATE: Tuesday, May 5, 2015
TIME: 1-2 p.m. ET (Noon-1 p.m. CT)
WHERE: On Twitter with hashtag #SaludTues
HOST: @SaludToday
CO-HOSTS: Evette Rios, bilingual lifestyle expert and host of Recipe Rehab (@evrios), the American Heart Association’s Vida Saludable program (@AHA_Vida), Chef Daisy Martinez (@LA_Daisy) We’ll open the floor to your stories and ...
El Paso, Texas has come a long way since ranked as the third-fattest U.S. city in 2012. A renewed focus on eating healthy and moving more is paying off; obesity rates in the area are dropping. In addition to local health departments and community organizations, schools are playing a big role in these changes by addressing health, culture and community all at once. At Bowie High School, students are getting exposed not only to gardening, nutrition education and business skills, they are reconnecting with cultural traditions that favor fresh and flavorful over processed and sugary.
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Awareness/Learn: The city of El Paso, Texas, shares its border with Mexico. This creates an interesting cultural dynamic where some students cross the border daily from Mexico to go to Bowie ...
In order for kids to be healthy and do better in school, more and more researchers are finding that kids need to be physically active. To expand opportunities for physical education in schools, lawmakers have reintroduced legislation which would authorize physical education grants to schools in exchange for states adopting improved physical activity standards. The Fitness Integrated with Teaching (FIT) Kids Act was recently introduced to the house and senate by representatives Ron Kind, D-Wis., and Patrick Meehan, R-Penn., along with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. In addition to improving physical activity standards, the bill would serve to restore a 37% of funding cut sustained to the Carol M. White Physical Education Program which occurred during Fiscal Year 2015. Read the ...
U.S. Senators from the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions have approved the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act which requires that physical education be taught as part of the core curriculum at both the elementary and middle school levels. The bill which was originally enacted in 1965 and was recently updated to include an amendment sponsored by Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc., which reinstates the Carol M. White Physical Education Program, and supports opportunities for students to meet state standards for physical education. The Senate is expected to vote on the bill later this spring. Read more about the amendment reauthorizing the Carol M. White Physical Education Program here. To learn more about the importance of providing ...
Only about a quarter of eighth-graders scored well on U.S. history, civics and geography tests, and Latino students did worse than other groups even though their scores improved over past tests, the Associated Press reports. Only 18% of students demonstrated solid performance or better in U.S. history, 27% in geography, and 23% in civics on the test. The test, called the Nation's Report Card, is administered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress to a representative sample of students. An example of test results via the Associated Press: "Less than half — 45 percent — of eighth-grade respondents were able to correctly interpret time differences using an atlas with time zones. Only about a third knew that 'the government of the United States should be a democracy' ...
Latinos often face increased or more severe cancer burdens and experiences than other groups. Why? And how can we work toward healthier lives for Latinos and all groups? In honor of Minority Health Promotion Day, you're invited to a National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Cancer Institute (@thenci) Twitter chat at 1 p.m. ET April 30, 2015, to discuss cancer health disparities among different population groups, cancer types, and initiatives and challenges in reducing these disparities. Use #NMHM15Chat to follow along! @SaludToday, the social media campaign of Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez and the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, will be an active chat participant, along with many ...
