In partnership with the National Foundation on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition and in honor of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition 60th Anniversary, the Council and Foundation released a mobile-ready website and #0to60 app to inspire a healthier lifestyle for individuals of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities.. There are countless benefits of living a healthy lifestyle. Physically active adults are more productive, confident, and able to sleep better. Moreover, when students are active it can lead to higher test scores, improved attendance, increased focus, lower rates of childhood obesity, and create healthy habits that carry into adulthood. Read about the important distinction between physical activity and exercise here and about the urgency in fighting ...
Students in the Park City School District (20.7% Latino) will now be offered fresh school meals made without unneeded and unhealthy ingredients. The school has decided to take out five ingredients including, trans-fat, high-fructose syrup, monosodium glutamate (MSG), sucralose and sulfites. Since 2012, a non-profit group called EATS Park City has been advocating for healthier school meals for the district, giving out samples to elementary students for taste test trials, encouraging the district to move away from processed foods, and more to fresh, made-from-scratch meals. “It’s been a long time coming, but it takes a while to gain that support in the community and to gain that support with the school district and the school board. I can’t tell you how pleased we are with ...
Economic segregation in America’s school systems is a growing concern that many education advocates are becoming alarmed about. According to new data from the research organization EdBuild, the most “guilty” of economic segregation – separating students from financially wealthy families homes from those that come from financially poor families and homes – are not concentrated in any one region of the country. School districts in Southern states, those where years of racial tension and inequality are still felt in many places, were mostly absent from the top 50 most economically segregated. Only two schools from Birmingham, Ala. (3.5% Latino population) were among the most segregated when comparing poverty rates. In order to reduce health disparities, it is critical to ...
Faith is a big part of Latino culture. But what can churches and faith-based groups do to help improve health? With more than 90% of Latinos affiliated with a faith-based group, these places can serve as ample grounds for promoting healthy lifestyles, connecting congregants to social services, sharing recreational facilities, and more.
How can you help faith communities be healthy?
Join us for a #SaludTues chat this Tuesday to learn more about the great work happening at faith-based groups, and share your own ideas for creating a culture of health! WHAT: #SaludTues Tweetchat: “How Faith Based Organizations Can Impact Latino Health”
TIME/DATE: 1-2 p.m. ET (Noon-1 p.m. CT), Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016
WHERE: On Twitter with hashtag #SaludTues
HOST: @SaludToday
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Entre 2014 y 2015, la tasa de obesidad adulta en Estados Unidos disminuyó en 4 estados (Minnesota, Montana, Nueva York y Ohio), aumentó en dos (Kansas y Kentucky), y permaneció igual en los demás, esto de acuerdo al informe The State of Obesity: Better Policies for a Healthier America, de la organización Trust for America’s Health y la Fundación Robert Wood Johnson. Estos datos marcan la primera vez en una década en que un estado ha experimentado una reducción en la tasa de obesidad entre los adultos, excepción hecha de Washington DC, que experimentó una reducción en 2010. Pese a esta modesta mejoría, la obesidad continúa poniendo a millones de estadounidenses en alto riesgo de sufrir enfermedades crónicas como la diabetes y males cardíacos, y le cuesta al país ...
What's so great about school lunches? Pew Charitable Trusts Research digs into the importance of healthy school meals and the facts about the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the School Breakfast Program (SBP). The NSLP serves over 5 billion lunches a year and the SBP provides breakfasts to over 14 million kids. They factor in the facts, showing that school meals offer healthier calories, not fewer, choices for meals are increasing, how kids' eating habits have improved and how these programs provide affordable healthier food and drinks to students. To learn more, click here or watch the video ...
Pediatrician Vanessa Salcedo, M. D. learned early through her career the dangerous health risks linked to sugary beverages, like heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. Many Latinos in New Yorks Bronx area (17.6%), deal with health problems like high blood pressure, obesity, high cholesterol, and diabetes. While in residency Salcedo choose to stop drinking sugary beverages like soda to be an example to her patients, and now the clinic has become a sugary drinks-free zone. Salcedo explained to the American Heart Association, that the patients rely on her and the other doctors, and they all wanted to be role models in creating a healthy place, free of sugary drinks. The doctors at Union Community Heath Center's six clinics discuss sugar content in drinks to their patients, ...
What is the state of obesity in your state? New interactive maps & data released by the Trust for America’s Health and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-The State of Obesity: Better Policies for a Healthier America. Some key findings of the report, based data from 2014-2015, : 9 of the 11 states with the highest obesity rates are in the South and 22 of the 25 states with the highest obesity rates are in the South and Midwest.
10 of the 12 states with the highest rates of diabetes are in the South.
Adult obesity rates are at or above 30 percent in 29 states for Latinos and 16 states for Whites. Why disparities in the South and among Latinos? Latino kids have limited space to be physically active-download the issue brief for free here-and Latino kids have ...
For the first time in the past decade, U.S. adult obesity rates decreased in four states—Minnesota, Montana, New York and Ohio—in the past year, according to a new report. But there's bad news, too. Obesity increased in Kansas and Kentucky and remained above 20% in all states. Obesity rates also are at or above 30 percent in: 40 states and Washington, D.C. for Blacks; 29 states for Latinos; and 16 states for Whites, according to the according to annual State of Obesity: Better Policies for a Healthier America from the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Louisiana has the highest adult obesity rate at 36.2%. Colorado is lowest at 20.2%. The new report did indicate some evidence that the rate of increase of adult obesity has been slowing ...
