Un nuevo estudio sugiere que el ofrecer agua a los estudiantes puede ayudar a reducir la obesidad infantil, reporta CBS News. En los EE.UU. más del 39% de los niños latinos tienen sobrepeso o son obesos, pero los investigadores de la Universidad de Nueva York Langone encontraron que miles de niños en escuelas de Nueva York perdieron peso y redujeron su índice de masa corporal después de que dispensadores automaticos de agua fueron instalados. ." "Nos fijamos en más de un millón niños en poco más de 1.200 escuelas,“Brian Elbel, coautor del estudio y profesor asociado en el Centro Médico Langone de la Universidad de Nueva York, le comento a CBS. Según los autores del estudio, cuando los estudiantes tienen acceso facil a dispensadores de agua las ventas de leche de ...
Latino kids get too much sugar, but not enough fruits and vegetables. WATCH and VOTE for new Salud America! Salud Heroes who help fight sugar and push fruits/veggies by Feb. 29, 2016, and be entered in a random drawing to win a FREE T-shirt and jump rope! Sugar Bites. County leaders built a toothy bilingual campaign to urge parents to choose water over sugary drinks for kids in Contra Costa, Calif. Is Your Drink Sugar-Packed? Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff and health advocates want folks to reevaluate their sugar intake in the San Antonio area. Poets Fight the Fizz. Gabriel Cortez and other young minority poets joined with a health coalition to voice a counter-advertising campaign against sugary drinks in California. Rx for Produce. A clinic teamed up with a farmers market ...
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. ...
Healthy Latin Eating suggests soda alternatives for kids, offering low sugar substitutes to help combat obesity. Fruit Fizzies- a combination of carbonated water and 100% pure juice. To make combine 1/3 pure juice and 2/3 plain carbonated water, feel free to use natural fruit like fresh berries, mangoes, strawberries or pineapple to give a naturally sweet flavor.
Fruit Tea Coolers-use flavored fruit teas like peach, strawberry or black berry and add mint if you like, cool it and serve with ice.
Apple/Cucumber Water- add sliced apples or cucumbers to a pitcher of water and let it sit and cool in the refrigerator for 20 mins. Serve with a sprig of mint for extra coolness.
Water Kefir- a probiotic option that is easy to make, just take 3 1/2 cups of water kefir, 1/2 apple diced or ...
This is part of our Latina Mom and Baby Health: A Research Review »
Children spend many hours in early childcare settings
Most young children spend a significant amount of time in day care, preschool, pre-kindergarten (pre-K), and Head Start programs.164 An estimated 60 percent of children younger than 6 are placed in some form of non-parental care during the work week, averaging.164 nearly 30 hours per week. This presents an opportunity for childcare centers and providers to encourage healthy behaviors in young children and to better educate parents on how to continue healthy behaviors at home.164
Early childcare settings can promote healthy behaviors
Evidence from the literature supports the notion that childcare is an important resource for promoting healthy behavior among ...
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 ...
The Calio app for Apple smartphones allows users to track food and get assistance from a registered Dietitian nutritionist. The voice activated app allows users to also input exercise activities from more than 300 options and provides motivational quotes for the end of the day when it is hard to stay on track. Users can also simply ask the question, "How much water did I drink today?" and the app answers by recalling the entries made throughout the day to figure the answer. To learn more about the app and it's health uses, click ...
This is part of our Healthier Schools & Latino Kids: A Research Review »
Latino schools tend to have less effective food policies
While most school districts have a policy that addresses competitive foods, results from several studies suggest that the policies at schools with more Latino students are generally less effective and many schools have not implemented them.32–34 For instance, a longitudinal analysis conducted between 2001 and 2008 examined the BMI of 6,300 racially and socioeconomically diverse students from 40 states that set standards for competitive foods.33 Law strength and consistency were identified as two key factors affecting the law’s positive influence on student BMI. States with a relatively high proportion of Latino students were more likely to ...
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Latino students access to unhealthy competitive foods at school
Two national studies suggest ethnic disparities regarding access to specific types of competitive food venues. The first study, using data collected in spring 2005 as part of the third School Nutrition and Dietary Assessment (SNDA III), included a nationally representative sample of 395 U.S. public schools and found that Latino high-school students had greater access to brand-name fast foods in schools than their black or White peers.20 This same study found no differences in access to healthy foods based on student ethnicity or socioeconomic status. The second study, an updated report of the National Secondary School Survey, a comprehensive ...
