The tax on sugary drinks in Mexico is projected to prevent 190,000 cases of diabetes, 20,000 heart attacks and strokes, and 19,000 deaths among Mexicans ages 35-94 over the next 10 years, according to a new study. The tax will save $1 billion in direct healthcare costs in a decade, the study found. For the study, researchers from UC San Francisco and Mexico created a new simulation model of diabetes and heart disease to make the first long-term projections about the health and economic effects of the tax in Mexico, where 75% of adults are overweight or obese and diabetes rates are extremely high. Mexico adopted a 10% excise tax on sugary drinks in 2014. The tax’s effect on diabetes alone is expected to reduce health care spending on clinic visits and hospitalizations by $983 ...
Latinos are 1.7 times more likely to get diabetes, 2 times more likely to have lower extremity amputations, and 3.1 times more likely to have end stage renal disease (ESRD) than whites. A modest weight loss achieved through regular physical activity and a healthy eating plan by people at risk for type 2 diabetes could prevent or delay the disease long-term, according to National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases’ (NIDDK). Regular physical activity, like walking, dancing, biking, or pool walking, helps improve insulin sensitivity and glycemic control; has a positive effect on blood pressure and cholesterol; and helps manage weight, thus it is important that Latino kids and families have safe places to walk and play to reduce their risk of developing diabetes ...
Sugary beverages like soda, energy drinks, sweetened teas, lemonades, coffees and fruit juices are known to be an unhealthy daily drink and some say they are becoming the next big tobacco, as researchers continually find their link to elevated chronic health risks. Now new study put on by researchers at the Karolinska Institute have found that not only do sweetened beverages heighten the risk for diabetes, but also artificially-sweetened beverages had similar risks in study results. In fact, higher consumption for these two types of drinks increased a higher risk for type 2 diabetes by 20%. The researchers reviewed over 2,800 Swedish adults compared to adults with diabetes cases, and all results were adjusted for various measures. The results found that possible direct adverse ...
The human gut is a complex environment called a "microbiome." It is home to billions of bacteria and other microbes that help digest food. Research now shows that the gut might play a role in development of type 2 diabetes, which afflicts Latinos at a 66% higher rate than Whites. Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have received a five-year, nearly $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study if altering the gut microbiomes of Latinos can impact the treatment and prevention of diabetes, Yahoo! News reports. The human gut microbiome represents a promising target for dietary changes and treatments aimed at combating type 2 diabetes—particularly in the Latino Latino population that disproportionately develops the disease, said Dr. Robert ...
U.S. Latinos have high risk of pre-diabetes, diabetes, and diabetic eye disease. But why? What can we do to stop it from happening? Let’s use #SaludTues to tweet in English and Spanish information, resources, and tips that can empower Latinos to prevent, reduce, and manage diabetes: WHAT: #SaludTues Tweetchat: Diabetes & Latinos
TIME/DATE: 1-2 p.m. ET (noon-1 p.m. CT), Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016
WHERE: On Twitter with hashtag #SaludTues
LANGUAGE: English and Spanish
HOST: @SaludToday
CO-HOSTS: Vida Saludable by the American Heart Association (@AHA_Vida) and Ventanilla de Salud in Washington, D.C. (@VDSalud_DC) We’ll open the floor to your stories and experiences as we explore: Why is knowing about diabetes important for Latinos?
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Research has long shown that U.S. Latinos face higher rates of diabetes and obesity. But are there differences among Mexicans? Cubans? Puerto Ricans? The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL), the first long-term study to look exclusively at the health of Latinos, is studying heart disease, obesity, and diabetes among a cohort of more than 16,000 U.S. Latino adults of Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, South American and Central American heritage in the Bronx, Chicago, San Diego and Miami areas, the American Heart Association (AHA) reports. For diabetes, a study of this cohort found that adults of South American heritage have the lowest rate of diabetes. Only about 10 percent of them have diabetes compared with about 18 percent of persons of ...
Healthy marketing can help people purchase more produce, shows a recent study, but it also can help people who speak different languages see the healthier choices in stores. Two years ago, working in various neighborhoods in California, including Simi Valley, Moorpark, Thousand Oaks and Newbury Park, Latino teens also saw the difference healthier marketing can do to protect the hearts of their family members. Six Spanish-speaking high school teens came up with a simple way to help mark healthier foods, despite lingual obstacles, and show other Spanish-Speaking shoppers which foods were best for their health, all by following dots. Dots? Yes, students placed colored dots to help shoppers understand health benefits of certain foods while shopping. Red dots on food showed ...
New research from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Siani found that reducing foods that are commonly dry heat-cooked or heat processed foods may help reduce diabetes risks. Professor and MD, Helen Vlassara confirmed that high levels of advanced glycation endproducts or AGEs in these foods create a greater risk in the body for pre-diabetes characterized by insulin resistance and changes in the brain. Participants being studied who ate fewer foods that were grilled, fried or baked and instead cooked and consumed foods that were stewed, poached or steamed, had slightly decreased body weights and showed signs of improving insulin resistance. Dr. Vlassara explained this new approach to looking at the way foods are cooked may help protect certain pre-diabetes patients to prevent ...
An old-school approach is making news in Latino diabetes prevention... Community outreach. In Fresno, Calif., workers with the California Health Collaborative’s Diabetes Education Program go door to door to encourage Latino residents to attend their free, bilingual, six-week diabetes self-management classes. They also heavily publicize their classes—in which participants are given a health assessment and cover topics from the diabetes pathology to stress management to nutrition and physical activity—among a population that is largely uninsured and undocumented. “If they do receive medical care, it might only be when they suffer complications of diabetes, and are seen in an emergency room,” said Rosendo Iniguez, coordinator of the Diabetes Education Program, told ...
