A growing list of countries around the world are starting to tax sugar-sweetened beverages in hopes to combat the health risks associated with them, including South Africa. The tax is aimed at helping decrease future associated health risk costs related to diseases like obesity. According to a recent article Professor Tess van der Merwe says half of South African adult women and a third of adult men are "overweight" and obesity rates are rising sharply in african children. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported obesity rates of children under five have nearly doubled. The levy, announced in February this year by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan in his budget is set to take effect in April 2017. Copy & Share on Twitter: South Africa to have #sodatax in April 2017 ...
Do you walk? American Public Health Association (APHA) is asking people to get active by walking everyday and entering in their miles or steps towards their overall goal of a billion steps. Even if you only walk 15 minutes a day, or 10 minutes walking the dog, and 10 more going to work, you can enter in your total and help achieve the APHA goal. Learn about how to count your time walking into counting steps or miles here. Each week they will award a $25 Amazon gift card to a participant. On May 31st, 2016, all challenge participants will be eligible to win the grand prize of a Fitbit Charge HR. Learn more and enter your steps now here! Copy & Share on Twitter: Help @PublicHealth reach a billion steps today! Enter to #win prizes! ...
El tabaquismo usualmente es asociado con el cáncer y otras enfermedades crónicas, pero un nuevo estudio de la Escuela de Medicina de Stanford asocia el tabaquismo con ganar menos dinero y más dificultades para encontrar un trabajo, informa Science Daily. Para el estudio, investigadores estudiaron a personas en busca de un nuevo empleo en el área de San Francisco entre 2013 y 2015. Cerca de la mitad eran fumadores y la otra mitad no lo eran. Según el estudio, después de un año, el doble de los no fumadores tenían un empleo. "Entre los fumadores que encontraron trabajo, en promedio, sus ingresos por hora era de $5 menos con respecto a los no fumadores que encontraron trabajo, una diferencia del 25,5 por ciento", dijo Judith Prochaska, de la Universidad de Stanford en su ...
Many Latino kids are faced with unhealthy snack choices and often are marketed these high- sugary options in candy and sodas more than their peers. The Center for Science in the Public Interest is asking parents to ask General Mills and Betty Crocker to stop confusing kids with advertising candy as fruit snacks. Nutritional facts are often hard to understand for parents, and studies show children are influenced by mascots and cartoons and foods advertised on television and in phone apps. To learn more about how you can get involved, click here. Copy & Share on Twitter: What are your kids eating? #SaludAmerica Learn more on what @CSPI is asking @GeneralMills ...
Nationwide, a total of 899 Complete Streets policies are now in place to create safer, multimodal transportation networks. In 2015, 82 Complete Streets policies were passed. A Complete Streets approach integrates the needs of people and place in the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of transportation networks. These laws, resolutions, agency policies, and planning and design documents establish a process for selecting, funding, planning, designing, and building transportation projects that allow safe access for everyone, regardless of age, ability, income or ethnicity, and no matter how they travel. Each year, the National Complete Streets Coalition analyzes newly passed Complete Streets policies. The Coalition ranks new Complete Streets policies to ...
Minnesota is generally considered one of the healthiest states in the country; however, health incomes for the state’s residents vary greatly in terms of race, sexual-orientation, and mental health status, according to the Minnesota Commissioner of Health, Dr. Ed Ehlinger. According to the Minnesota Department of Health’s “Advancing Health Equity” report, which highlighted disparities in health among specific populations, Minnesota’s growing Latino population deal with several critical health disparities. Per the report, Minnesota’s Latino youths have extremely high rates of obesity. American Indian and African American youths also have higher rates that white youths. Also, poverty rates for children under 18 are twice as high for Latino children than for white ...
Obesity affects more than one-third of American adults, and teens who are obese can also face life threatening health risks like heart disease, high blood pressure, sleep apnea and cancer. According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation research, half of African-American and Latino children born after the year 2000 will develop diabetes or other chronic conditions. How can you bring awareness about the disease of obesity? Walk from Obesity is a fundraiser that raises awareness and funds to support advanced obesity research, professional education and access to care initiatives. The even is hosted by the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) Foundation which gathers individuals affected by obesity in cities across the nation to build an awareness and help ...
After more than a dozen years implementing active living and healthy eating initiatives based on their initial Community Action Model (CAM), Active Living By Design (ALBD) update their CAM and “3P” approach (Partner, Prepare, and Progress). ALBD recommends a community change process that is intentional about partnership, preparation, and strategic progress to change policies, systems, and environments for improved community health. This updated model can be useful to community coalitions and local leaders, as well as to funders seeking a tested approach for local investments. Explore the components of the CAM to learn more: Community Context
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In recognition of National Minority Health Month, Breastfeeding Medicine is providing FREE access to a selection of high-impact articles now addressing minority health disparities. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Breastfeeding
Katherine M. Jones, Michael L. Power, John T. Queenan, Jay Schulkin Changing the Breastfeeding Conversation and Our Culture
Gail C. Christopher, Joanne K. Krell Barriers to Breastfeeding in the African American Population of Shelby County, Tennessee
Julie L. Ware, Larita Webb, Marian Levy Impact of Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy and Sociocultural Factors on Early Breastfeeding in an Urban, Predominantly Dominican Community
Melissa E. Glassman, Karen McKearney, Minna Saslaw, Dana R. Sirota Prepregnancy Obesity and Breastfeeding Noninitiation in the ...
