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 ...
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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The National Institutes of Health has awarded an $11.3 million grant to researchers studying health inequities in youth in Tulsa, Okla. (14.82% Latino population). The funding will be used to establish the Children’s Health Equity Solutions Center, which will be a partnership between researchers from the Oklahoma State University (OSU) Center for Health Sciences and the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa. “The number one predictor in not just how long you will live, but how well you will live is income,” said Jennifer Hays-Grudo, a regents professor of human development and family science in the College of Human Sciences at OSU. “Unfortunately, in Oklahoma, if you’re born in the bottom 20% of the income level, you are more likely to die in the bottom 20 percent than in other ...
According to local news and a recent study of California school children, unemployment rates can increase a child's risk of becoming an unhealthy weight. Researcher and lead author of the study, Vanessa Oddo from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore explained that there is a trickle down effect that impact kids health. Researchers studied California's unemployment levels and house foreclosures from 2008 to 2012 along with heights and weights of 1.7 million school-aged children, more than half Latino, from the state's department of education. Students body mass index (BMI)'s were compared with economic indicators showing for every one percent increase in unemployment in a community, children had a 14% increase in BMI. However, foreclosure had a reverse ...
According to a local news article, United Way of Central Ohio hoping to help Latino kids have healthier lives, noting from the 2016 Champion of Children report that reveals many of the challenges that Latino boys face. The report which includes local and national information finds that the growing population of Latino youth is living in high-poverty neighborhoods, limiting them to fresh food, quality schools, affordable housing and health care. Other barriers include language barriers, societal assumptions and cultural expectations of boys to work and contribute to the family. The report recommends that schools hire more Latino teachers, encourage Latino children to go into education careers and for teachers to become more culturally sensitive. Also recommended was for community ...
By now you’re most likely aware of Pokémon Go, an app that was more popular than Twitter for a time. Pokémon Go is a GPS-based augmented reality gaming app that forces players to go out and explore the outdoors in order to "catch 'em all" (Pokemon creatures). According to mental health experts, this gaming app can help individuals with depression by forcing them to go out of their home and do physical activity and interact with other individuals and friends. "The developers behind Pokémon Go didn't mean to create a mental health gaming app," psychologist John M. Grobol wrote for his site, PsychCentral. "But they've done so, and the effects seem to be largely positive." A 2018 study found that 33% of Pokémon Go players reported changes in social behavior since they ...
Because walking has numerous health benefits, it shouldn't be so complicated to figure out where kids and families can walk safely and be physically active in nature. The following infographics (English and Spanish) from the National Recreation and Parks Association, EverybodyWalk, National Environmental Education Foundation, Active Living Research,and the Surgeon General demonstrate how powerful nature walks are to transform your health and why everyone deserves safe access to parks and places to walk. National Recreation and Parks Association - Safe Routes to Parks
National Recreation and Parks Association - The Power of Parks
EverybodyWalk - Anatomy of Walking
EverybodyWalk - Health Benefits of Walking Health Benefits of Walking in Spanish National ...
A new study shows how arrows directing grocery store shoppers may help them choose healthier foods. According to a study from the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, the use of six feet by three feet green arrows with text inside stating, "please follow this green arrow for a healthy heart, or a healthy weight" directed consumers to the fresh produce aisle and helped them choose more produce. These green arrows were part of a study on nutrition interventions using non-traditional marketing on the floor of a grocery store to influence consumers to choose healthier fruits and vegetables when purchasing foods, but not increase their overall budget for foods. "Considering that half of shoppers budgets are less flexible for unmet needs at the grocery store, we knew that we ...
