A new government study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) state that teens are preferring water more often than soda. According to a recent article, the CDC surveyed teens in 2015, finding 74% of students drank one or more glasses of water a day, and 26% of students reported not drinking any sugary soda at all in seven days, up from 19% in 2007. President of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), Michale Jacobson explained in the article that many campaigns have been educating parents and kids about the harms that soda consumption can lead to in one's health, leading efforts to reduce sugary drinks in schools, public vending machines, and with soda taxes, limiting students on these options and helping them to cut out sugary drinks from their ...
For decades artificial sweeteners have been a sugar substitute especially among Latinos and all people who have diabetes, but according to a new study, sugar alternatives may cause people to eat more and sleep less, Univision reports. For their research, investigators from Australia gave sucralose (a chemical present in many artificial sweeteners) to fruit flies and mice and discovered that both of these animals consumed more calories than those animals in a real sugar diet. According to the investigators artificial sweeteners cause a neuronal disequilibrium when the brain is tricked into thinking the body is consuming real sugar but the calories are not existent; thus forcing the brain to send the message to the body to eat more. “These results show us that food 'sugar-free' ...
What are missing but not missed at a Renaissance Festival? Cars. America Walks and the Every Body Walk! Collaborative released a new book, America's Walking Renaissance, which examines how nine cities suburbs, and towns across the country are embracing walking and creating more walkable places. "Walking is the gateway to increased physical activity, and a stimulus to safer, more livable and equitably prosperous communities," Tyler Norris, MDiv, Vice President, Total Health Partnerships at Kaiser Permanente, stated in the introduction. Access the book for free here. Learn more about the urgency in fighting childhood obesity with walking and physical activity here. Spread the ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of Minority Health will present a special From Coverage to Care (C2C) webinar on Wednesday, July 20 at 1:00pm ET. The event will serve as an opportunity to learn more about C2C as well as discuss how to best get involved in the community to help people get the most from their health coverage. Participants will be invited to share their input and discuss the best strategies available. Tools for health care professionals will also be shared as part of the event. The overall goal is to ensure people live the best and healthiest lives possible. This Spanish-language webinar will last 60 minutes in total. There is no cost for the webinar. You can register online at the C2C Spanish webpage. Share this story on ...
By Rosalie Aguilar, Salud America! Project Coordinator At least 76% of U.S. Latinos connect to the Internet by mobile phone—many of which are connected to social media networks according to the Pew Research Center. Social media and online communities can be a great way to share information and tools to drive social change. Salud America! uses its website and online community to keep educators, parents, leaders, and members of the health care industry informed about the latest stories, policies and systems change to reverse Latino childhood obesity. This week we’ll be chatting about online communities and resources that can activate change. WHAT: #SaludTues Tweetchat: “Online Communities & Tools For Healthy Change” DATE: Tuesday, July 19th, 2016
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The majority of working adults go to work when they’re feeling sick, especially those that work in low-paying jobs, according to results from a poll conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and NPR. The majority of workers who report for duty feeling sick work in the healthcare and food industries. "It's one of the biggest food safety problems that there is, and we've known about it forever," the Minnesota Department of Health's Kirk Smith told NPR. The poll found that over 60% of workers with low-paying jobs report to work with the flu and other illnesses, compared to 55% of workers with average earning jobs and 52% with high paying jobs. “A lot of them went to work because they were worried about losing their jobs if ...
National Farm to School Network is asking supporters for healthy school food to write out their thoughts about school meals, farm to school on paper plates. The network plans to hand deliver the paper plates to Congress and tell legislators that school meals and farm to school are an important part of kids growing up healthy with fresh fruits and vegetables in school meals. So far 350 people have joined the cause, drawing images like carrots and other vegetables and writing about food justice, social justice, farms, and more all on paper plates. To learn more about this movement, or get involved, click ...
Early recognition of overweight and obesity, by family and physicians, is crucial, particularly among kids who have higher rates of obesity. However, many people, including many Latinos, don't understand how urgent childhood obesity is because of confusion between overweight and obesity and confusion about what obesity actually looks like.
Parents Underestimate Child's Risk
Parents, in particular, are often unable to correctly identify their child's weight status, thus underestimating their risk for many life-threatening diseases. Additional confusion, that leads to underestimation of health risk associated with obesity, is related to beliefs that big babies are healthier than small babies, and that kids will "grow out of" obesity.
Children Don't "Grow Out of" Obesity
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In the United States, we love our cars. According to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the machines that help us move from point A to point B kill more Americans than in any other industrialized country, CNN reports. In the last 13 years, the US has reduced cars related deaths by 31%, but according to experts that’s a very small number compared to the average of 56% in 19 wealthy countries such as Denmark (63.5%). “If the United States had reduced its death rate to the average of other countries, 18,000 more lives would have been saved,” according to the CDC report. Other key findings are: The U.S. ranks first in crash deaths per 100,000 people
The U.S. Ranks 2nd place in alcohol-related car deaths
The U.S. has the 3rd lowest ...
