Mexicans are guzzling fewer sugary drinks since a national sugary drink tax took effect one year ago, and U.S. health proponents say they hope this can help sway local voters to adopt similar measures, the International Business Times reports. Studies indicate raising the price of sugary drinks can reduce consumption and potentially lower obesity and health risks. U.S. Latino kids consume an above-average amount of sugary drinks (soft drinks, sports drinks, fruit-flavored drinks, and flavored milk), which contributes to increased rates of obesity, diabetes, and other health issues that disproportionately affect the Latino community. Mexico's sugary drink tax, a reaction to the country's large sugary drink intake (3.6 million cans of soda each day) and high diabetes rates ...
Christmas and Hanukkah may have come and gone, but the holiday season is still in full swing; iconic holiday ads by companies like Coca-Cola can still be seen on TV and around cities worldwide. Earlier this month, Alianza por la Salud Alimentaria (Nutritional Health Alliance), a Mexican health advocacy coalition, decided to take a stand against holiday advertising by Coca-Cola by producing their own "anti-advertisements" about the dangers of drinking too many sugary drinks. Mexico has the highest death rate associated with the consumption of soda and sugary drinks, 24,100 deaths per year, according to a press release by lianza por la Salud Alimentaria. The coalition's new video ads in both English and Spanish encourage Mexican families to take sodas off their tables this ...
About 3.2 million U.S. Latinos have diabetes. And Latino kids have about a 50% lifetime risk of developing diabetes. This makes diabetes a tremendous current and future threat to Latino health—but they way Latinos see this threat varies, according to a new survey. The survey, from the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, shows that while there is general awareness of the disease, Latinos with diabetes are more likely than non-Latinos to worry that, besides themselves, someone in their family would develop diabetes. But the survey also yielded some complicated findings. For example, Latinos were more likely (87%) than whites (80%) to believe that a diabetic can take actions to prevent diabetes. But fewer than half named key disease-management practices like being ...
The American Heart Association (AHA) is urging Hispanic families to discuss heart health, given their struggles with heart disease, VoxxiNews reports. More than one-third of Hispanics have heart diseases, such as heart attack, stroke, hypertension, heart failure, and irregular heartbeat. Hispanics also have elevated risk factors, like obesity and diabetes. Here are seven reasons Latinos should take heart disease seriously, via VoxxiNews: Among Mexican-American adults age 20 and older, 33.4% of men and 30.7% percent of women have cardiovascular disease (CVD).
2.8% of Hispanic adults have had a stroke.
Men, blacks, and Mexican Americans have higher rates of TIA (mini-stroke) than their female and non-Hispanic white counterparts.
Mexican Americans have higher cumulative ...
Latinos struggle with higher rates of diabetes than other groups. But Latinos, who also tend to be early adopters of new media technology, are ready to use their technological savvy to help prevent, manage and treat diabetes, according to promising new survey results by electronic health records review company Software Advice. The survey, which queried 1,983 Latinos, found that: 60% of Latinos are interested in tracking diabetes-related risk factors by independently accessing their medical records online (also known as electronic health records, or EHR).
71% of Latinos would be more likely to try to lower their diabetes risk if their physician sent a personalized risk assessment.
54% of Latinos say they would log and send personal health information electronically at their ...
Spanish-language TV advertising for sugary drinks and energy shots increased by 44% over the past few years, according to a new report. The report, Sugary Drink FACTS 2014, updates the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity's 2011 research on sugary drinks and advertising to children. The report highlights industry progress but also indicates that companies still have a long way to go to improve their marketing practices and the nutritional quality of their youth-marketed products. This is particularly relevant to Latino youth, who consume more sugary drinks than their white peers, with 74% of Latinos having their first sugary drink before age 2. Some progress was made in marketing to Latino kids: On Spanish-language TV, Kraft Foods and Red Bull eliminated virtually ...
Latinos, with a diabetes prevalence of roughly 16.9% compared to 10.2% for non-Hispanic whites, are greatly affected by diabetes. Fortunately, a new multicultural initiative aimed at closing the disparities gap is offering hope to members of Latino, African American, and Native American communities. The new five-year initiative, the Alliance to Reduce Disparities in Diabetes (Alliance), has found success by using a unique multisystem approach to managing chronic disease in vulnerable populations. In a cross-site evaluation of the initiative's five-site community-based care centers, investigators found that patients who were a part of the Alliance experienced decreases in blood glucose levels, increased quality of life, and decreased health care costs. Additionally, ...
Carondelet Health Network, which currently operates Holy Cross Hospital, and funded by a 2010 donation from Dr. Harold and Mrs. Nancy Cunningham offers health classes to young Latino students. The classes are often given as teleconferences and involve multiple schools in Southern Arizona simultaneously, but the Desert Shadows class was in-person, reports Nogales International. During the class, Gwen Gallegos (a diabetes educator) sketched out the food and lifestyle choices that can significantly decrease the chances of the young girls developing diabetes, a chronic illness that can lead to a host of complications, including heart and kidney failure, amputations and blindness. “With kids, our whole goal is diabetes prevention and just making children aware of what they eat and ...
U.S. Hispanics are nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with diabetes as non-Hispanic whites, and diabetes is the fifth leading cause of death within the Hispanic community, according to federal stats. Latina celebrity chef Leticia Moreinos Schwartz is working with Merck on Desafiando La Diabetes: Logra Tus Metas, a program urging Hispanics with type 2 diabetes to know their A1C - average blood sugar level over the past two to three months - and to work with their doctor to attain their personal A1C goal. “After struggling with type 2 diabetes for many years, my grandfather passed away from a stroke, one of the serious complications of diabetes,” says Moreinos Schwartz. “That’s why I’m passionate about empowering Hispanics to learn how to reach their blood sugar ...
