Can a rap song or graffiti art help kids eat healthier? Dr. Kevin Strong wanted to give it a shot and compete with the unhealthy marketing that kids—especially Latinos—are bombarded with daily. So founded the “Dunk the Junk” movement to work in schools and through social media to tailor health messages to kids in a fun way to counter junk food advertising. He uses rap, hip-hop dance, basketball, and graffiti art to change what kids think is cool to eat. “I love basketball and I would see a million junk food ads every time I watched,” Strong told Style101 Magazine. “I was just really saddened by the all children that are coming in [to my clinic] real young, devastated by junk food exposure.”
The Need for Counter Marketing
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El Alzheimer cobra la vida a más personas que el cáncer de seno y próstata combinados, reporta Latin Post. Los latino son desproporcionalmente más afectados por el Alzheimer y son “1.5 veces más propensos a padecer de esta enfermedad que blancos.” Alta presión, embolias y enfermedades del corazón son algunos de los factores de riesgo para el Alzheimer. “Es tiempo de hablar sobre el alzhéimer en la comunidad latina.” Hoy en día esta enfermedad no es tratada como un asunto urgente en nuestra comunidad. La diabetes, enfermedades cardiovasculares y la obesidad, son las que actualmente están en la mira, pero el Alzhéimer por mucho tiempo ha sido ignorado. Dice Jason Resendez, director de latinos contra el Alzheimer. De acuerdo a la Asociación de Alzheimer, ...
Florida Hospital for Children serves Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties (29.3% Latino) in Central Florida. Childhood overweight and obesity rates in these counties range from 26.7% to 40.7% compared to the national average of 30.7%. The prevalence of childhood diabetes is 1.7% in Latinos compared to 0.5% in Whites. The Florida Hospital for Children had already been running a healthy weight and wellness clinic for children and families who were struggling with obesity, pre-diabetes and diabetes; however, they wanted to focus more on prevention in schools. Hospital staff said they were dealing with younger and patients and they didn’t just want to be intervening, they wanted to be preventing. The Florida Hospital for Children piloted Mission: FIT Possible program in 2012 ...
How would a city kid know how to milk a goat? Or grow fresh spinach? Steve’s Camp at Horizon Farms in New York just might be the answer. This fresh farm idea for high school teens allow them to jump right into farm life for a unforgettable hands-on experience about living a self-sustainable life. Students learn the camp’s core tenets of how to have a healthy body, healthy heart and a healthy mind. Many Latino teens live in urban areas within New York that have barriers to living healthy, including food deserts and little access to open green space. Also, Latino teens are less likely to eat fruits and vegetables and more likely to have diabetes than their non-white peers. Camp youth learn self-sufficient skills on how to implement healthier cooking at home with cooking ...
A warning sign may be on the next soda or sugary beverage you see in New York. Why? A new assembly bill, 2320b, will warn consumers about sugar in their beverages. With the "Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Safety Warning Act", sodas and any beverages that contain sugar, syrup, or any other type of sugary substance will have warning labels about diabetes, cardio-vascular disease or obesity. Sugary beverage consumption is well known for it's link to obesity and diabetes, as research shows and Latinos are more likely to be diabetic and obese, and drink sugary beverages. Having warning labels for multi-cultural audiences, may help lower consumption of sugary drinks in Latino families. The bill is currently in recess, and may be likely taken up by state senate in 2016, to ...
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Jenny Castro Un estudio realizado por el Centro para el Control y Prevención de las Enfermedades de EE.UU. (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés) develó que los hispanos nacidos en este país son casi el doble de propensos a una enfermedad del corazón y cáncer, según el Colegio Americano de Cardiología, esto se debe a que comparado con otros grupos raciales y étnicos, los hispanos están menos informados respecto a las enfermedades del corazón, ignorando que estas son de las principales causas de muerte en Estado Unidos. Por otro lado el CDC estima que los hispanos son el doble de propensos a morir de diabetes y enfermedades del hígado que los caucásicos. En relación al acceso a la salud, más del doble de los hispanos menores de 65 que no tienen ...
The University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University have developed and currently are testing an insulin patch that could soon replace the painful insulin injections, Univision reports. More than 16 percent of Latinos in the U.S. suffers from diabetes and could benefit from insulin patches. "Basically we developed this kind of so-called smart insulin patch, which can sense the blood sugar level and release insulin at the right time only once the blood sugar goes up. And the insulin can be quickly released from the patch. And meanwhile once the blood sugar level goes to a normal range, less insulin is released or is just inhibited. Basically this kind of smart insulin patch is not only smart, it is also painless," Dr.Zhen Gu, lead researcher of the project told ...
Brockton, Massachusetts is considered a federally designated food desert. Food deserts are urban areas where it is difficult to find local farmers markets or grocery stores. Latino's make up about ten percent of the population in Brockton, and around 10 percent of the population is struggling with Diabetes. So how can Latinos prevent diabetes when they live in food deserts? How about offering Latino's a shopping experience where they can change chips for broccoli to get points? Or offering store credit to those whose weight or blood pressure has dropped? Jason Barbosa's family business, New Vicente's Tropical Grocery is making public health history. The new store will offer shoppers a truly healthy shopping experience. “You can’t just run a business and not feel that it’s ...
The U.S. population does not consume enough fruits and vegetables a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) concluded, NBC Health reports. Latinos in the U.S. consume even less fruits and vegetables than the national average. Most Hispanics consume less than two servings of fruit and vegetables per day. For its study, the CDC went through data from a national survey “to calculate just how close Americans come to meeting national recommendations.” "These results indicate that fewer than 18 percent of adults in each state consumed the recommended amount of fruit and fewer than 14 percent consumed the recommended amount of vegetables," Latetia Moore from the CDC and Frances Thompson from NCI write in the CDC’s ...
