Gestational diabetes, high blood sugar levels during pregnancy, afflicts about 5-9% of pregnant women nationwide and drastically increases a woman’s risk for type 2 diabetes later in life; however, breastfeeding may reduce this risk. According to a recent study conducted by a team led by Dr. Erica P. Gunderson at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, "researchers estimated that women who exclusively breastfed or mostly breastfed were about half as likely to develop type 2 diabetes as those who didn’t breastfeed." High blood sugar levels can cause a variety of health problems, including heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, blindness, and amputation. In addition to reducing risk of diabetes for the mother, breastfeeding is also associated with reduced obesity rates for ...
Because safe places to bike and walk don't build themselves, the Alliance for Biking & Walking creates and strengthens bicycling and walking advocacy groups across the country. They understand the importance of partnerships and provide, tools, resources, and training to help advocates win campaigns. At their 2015 National Training — Organizing, Leadership and Digital Strategies for a Stronger Movement, Alliance for Biking & Walking explored the topic of building better community partnerships. They discussed four levels of community partnerships-from object, to recipient, to partner, to leader-and came up with 10 strategies to move communities up the ladder from objects to leaders. Start at the top.
Establish clear goals for partnership.
Be selective.
Set ...
Spreading the word about how to improve Latino health is a dire need. That’s why we at the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio created our Salud America! program, formerly called SaludToday. We recently won a trio of Web Health Awards for our digital efforts to raise awareness for Latino health from the Health Information Resource Center, which gives awards twice annually for online health information. We earned a “gold” award for our @SaludAmerica Twitter feed, a "silver" award for our Growing Healthy Change Platform and a "bronze" award for the Salud Heroes story "Wild About Health." Please help us continue to raise awareness of Latino health issues and solutions by following us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, ...
Many have seen or played the game Candy Crush on popular social media sites like facebook, but what does playing these games do to children who spend much of their free time on computers, phones or watching TV? A recent behavioral science study from Ph.D. Frans Folkvord, at Radboud University, discovered that games that promote or embed food advertisements increase children's appetites to candy or the food being promoted. The study looked at the behavior of over 1000 children who shortly after playing a candy game were 55 percent more likely to eat the candy offered to them than the children who had played a game embedded with toy ads. Folkvord warns that only six percent of children are aware of such advergames are actual advertisements, and that these games do affect their ...
A recent study suggests that even one sugary drink can increase the risks of higher blood pressure. Sodas, fruit punch, lemonade, sports drinks, and even energy drinks with high sugar content are not only linked to obesity and diabetes, but now researchers are finding that people who consume one or more sugary drinks per day, have a 12 percent higher risk of high blood pressure compared to those who drank no sugary beverages. The findings are pooled from six different studies that included more than 240,000 people, with serving sizes of sugary beverages varied from seven to twelve ounces. To learn more about this study from The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, click ...
If you are looking for healthy Latin flavored dishes for your next family dinner, check out the EL Sabor De Mi Cocina cookbook. This Spanish cookbook shows healthy recommendations of fruits and vegetables in various favorite Latin flavored dishes like eggs and cactus, tortilla soup and more! Este libro de cocinar, El Sabor De Mi Cocina, tiene varios platillos saludables con un sabor rico. Todos los recetas incluyen varios frutas y verduras, como sopa de tortilla, huevos con nopales y ...
Did you know Applebees and IHOP restaurants have taken soda off kids menus and New York City Restaurants now show consumers which items are high in sodium? Choosing the healthier option when eating out can sometimes be confusing as most restaurant foods have high levels of either fat, sugar or sodium. MomsRising.org and Center for Science in the Public Interest are holding a #FoodFri Tweet Chat, Friday, December 18th, 10-11am PT/1-2pm ET to discuss how to eat healthfully while eating out. Participants will offer helpful suggestions for eating out, discuss efforts to improve restaurant kids' menus, and highlight ways to support access to healthier options in the community. To join this discussion, follow #FoodFri on ...
Vending machines are found everywhere, but many do not over healthy food options for consumers. Latinos students have been shown to buy more food from vending machines than their white peers, according to studies. Healthy changes are happening to help give people more healthy options in vending machines. Recently in the city of Baltimore, vending machine foods policies have been put in place to require only healthy vending options for a consumer like low-fat, low-calorie and low-sugar snacks and beverages. The Public Health Law Center has provided a resource that helps advocates for healthier vending options to draft effective policies towards this movement. To find out how to draft an effective policy and learn about the key components of food procurement and vending policies, ...
Some Members of Congress, food companies, and trade organizations are urging Congress to roll back school nutrition. Have they considered what that would mean for kids’ health? Here are 9 reasons rolling back school nutrition is a bad idea. ...
