A study from Los Angeles, Calif. shows that high stress in Latino adults may have twice the risk of having obese children. According to a recent article, researchers looked at data from the Study of Latino Youth (SOL Youth) and stated that parental stress is a risk factor for childhood obesity among Latinos. High levels of stress were reported among Latino parents and obesity and chronic stress were prevalent among this population, explained researchers. Stress factors were determined from the Chronic Stress Burden Scale, including factors of difficulties at work or in a relationship among other stress factors, where data showed 34 percent of parents in the study had three or more stress factors. The doctors of the research later explained that the importance of stress on the ...
According to a new report, while college enrollment numbers for Latino males continues to rise, they still lag behind female Latinos in terms of college enrollment. This disparity increases as the level of higher education increases. The report, from Excelencia in Education, found that Latino males represent half of the traditional college-aged Americans in total. Other findings from the report were that Latino male high school dropout rates have decreased significantly. In 2014, the high school dropout rate for Latino males was 12% down considerably from 26% in 2005. The graduation rates for Latino males and females have proven to be similar, with Latino males at 49% and females at 51%. Latinos are also the second largest group of college-age males overall. In 2014, Latinos ...
Marketing to kids has been a long debated topic as cartoon characters, TV shows and smartphone game apps have been shown to influence kid's food choices. Quebec has had restrictions on child-targeted food ads since 1980's according to a recent news article and now Toronto wants to follow suit as well to help decrease risks of childhood obesity and diabetes. The board of health voted on Monday, April 25, 2016, to ban commercial ads to children under 16 years of age. The city's Medical Officer of Health reported in the same news article that 29 percent of kids in grades 7-12 were overweight or obese, and one in five students eat sugar or salty snacks more than three times a day. Latino kids are often more likely to see unhealthy ads for unhealthy foods and sugary ...
According to a recent study led by Duke Clinical Research Institute childhood obesity in the United States has not declined and severe obesity remains high. Dr. Sarah Armstrong pediatrician and director of the Duke Healthy Lifestyles Program said in a recent video in regards to the childhood obesity epidemic that, "Not seeing changes in the actual numbers, as this study points out, certainly is problematic, because there have been all the efforts aimed towards it." Researchers found that 33.4 percent of children between the ages of 2 through 19 were overweight and among those 17.4 percent had obesity. The results showed the continued increase of obesity among children from 1999 through 2014. Also according to the recent article 4.5 million children and adolescents had severe ...
New research suggests that mothers who perceive their child to be in fair or poor health are more likely to underestimate their weight. The study from the University of Houston's Department of Health and Human Performance found that a child's risk for obesity or malnutrition may be tied to the mother's misperception of her child's weight status. Surveying 70 low-income Latina mothers, the study revealed over 54 percent of the mothers surveyed with an overweight or obese child perceived their child as being a healthy weight. One of the main researchers of the study explained in a recent article that the way mothers perceive their children's weight is closely tied to their own weight, and often Latina moms seem to link health with weight. Researchers suggest that bilingual ...
In April 2016, PeopleForBikes released a new report, Quick Builds for Better Streets, looking at lessons from quick-build protected bike lane projects in Seattle, New York, Chicago, Austin, Denver, Memphis, Pittsburgh and San Francisco. The quick-build trend grew out of small-scale tactical urbanism projects where activists would modify a street by painting their own bike lane or adding cheap plastic posts. These projects demonstrate to the public how modified infrastructure-added bike lanes-could work in the real world. Access the new report, Quick Builds for Better Streets, here. Copy and share: Report to help cities adopt quick-build protected bike lanes. http://salud.to/21cixaz ...
A recent study from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, low-income families pay more for everyday items due to an inability to buy these products in bulk. As reported by CNN, researchers analyzed among the purchases of over 100,000 household items over the course of seven years. It was determined that low-income families were less able to afford the higher upfront cost of buying items in bulk rather than households with higher incomes. Two-thirds of U.S. Latino children live in low-income households and about one-third live in poverty. One of the key products studied was the purchase of toilet paper. In studying this trend, it was observed that 36 rolls of two-ply toilet paper might cost $15, but a roll of one-ply cost only $1. Researchers found that low-income ...
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! ...
