Latino teens on average consume more sugary beverages than their white peers, studies show. In fact, about 74% of Latinos have had a sugary drink by age 5. But what if teens and kids knew the impact sugary drinks had on their health? A new study from Penn Medicine analyzed how teens perceived sugary drinks with health warning labels. Researchers from the Center for Health incentives and Behavior Economics used an online survey to gauge more than 2,000 teens, ages 12-18, perception of their favorite sugary drinks, some drinks included a health warning labels while others did not. The teens who didn't see a warning label on their beverages (77%) chose a sugary drink. The teens who saw the warning labels were 8 to 16 % less likely to select a sugary beverage.
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Everyone needs a safe and reliable way to get to the place where they obtain foods - ideally healthy foods. However, transportation is a major barrier to accessing healthy food, particularly for Latinos. Read about how traffic safety in the U.S. lags far behind other countries here. Disparities in transportation environments are not inevitable; they are due to local decision‐making. The Safe Routes to School National Partnership created a Safe Routes to Healthy Food fact sheet exploring the benefits of making healthy food accessible by foot, bike, or transit. Safe Routes to Healthy Food aims to strengthen policies and practices that make it safer and more convenient to walk, bike, and use transit to access healthy foods. People with access to safe places to walk and bike ...
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 ...
Groups like Churches United for Healthy Congregations are working to promote health equity in their community. For ideas on how to unite local faith leaders and better coordinate services for health visit their page. Click here for more ...
Are you looking for funding to support school physical activity projects and nutrition initiatives for this school year? Action for Healthy Kids is granting over $1.6 million to schools for the 2016-2017 school year! Grants range from $500 to $1,000. Funding can be used to support initiatives such as: Recess, Play Space/Gymnasium Refurbishing, Physical Education Equipment, Classroom Physical Activity Breaks, Nutrition Education, School Gardens, Healthy Celebrations and more! Physical activity is critical to improve Latino kids mental, emotional, and physical health. SELECT states are eligible to apply: CA, IA, IL, KS, *MO, NE, PA, TX, WI. Application deadline is Friday, September 16, 2016. Learn more and apply here.
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The Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE) works with faith based organizations for the common goal of promoting health and eliminating health disparities. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) health disparities exist when preventable differences in the burden of disease are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations. Access resources from the CDC and OMHHE for reducing health disparities ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
