The American Heart Association (AHA) and Aramark have partnered up to encourage healthy living for Americans. The initiative is called Healthy for Life, 20 by 20, hoping to improve health of at least 20 percent of Americans by the year 2020. Aramark is changing their menus, along with their food's sodium and fat levels and increasing fruit and vegetable options for the 2 million foods they serve at various businesses, events, schools and parks. Partnering with the AHA, they also plan to work together to provide health education with culturally relevant cooking and nutrition education classes for underserved communities throughout the country and encourage healthier options with their digital wellness centers. Targeting underserved communities across the nation, the initiative ...
La administración de alimentos y medicamentos de Estados Unidos (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés) recientemente aprobó un ensayo de nivel medio para una vacuna que potencialmente puede reversar la diabetes tipo uno, reporta Reuters. La FDA le dio la luz verde al ensayo de la vacuna bacillus-Calmette-Guerin (BCG) en 150 adultos con casos avanzados de diabetes, el cual significativamente afecta a latinos en los Estados Unidos. “En la fase 1 del ensayo, hemos demostrado estáticamente una respuesta significativa de la vacuna BCG, pero nuestro objetivo es crear una respuesta terapéutica a largo plazo. ,”dijo la Dra. Denise Faustman, directora del laboratorio de inmunología del hospital general de Massachussets en Boston. “Estaremos trabajando nuevamente con pacientes ...
Latinos rely more on smartphones to access the Internet than whites, and are more likely to use their phones to look up health, education, and job content, according to a Pew Research Center report. Smartphones are narrowing the so-called digital divide between racial/ethnic minorities and whites. More Latinos (13%) and blacks (12%) are "smartphone-dependent," with no home Internet connection, than whites (4%), and there are key differences how these groups use their smartphones. According to the Pew report:
Nearly three-quarters (73%) of Hispanic smartphone owners have used their phone in the past year to research a health condition, which is similar to the share for blacks. But whites are less likely to say they’ve used a phone to seek out health information.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded funds to 17 different universities and colleges working to develop and evaluate programs to prevent childhood obesity. Of the programs that have been selected to receive funding, several will target Latino children, who continue to be a high risk demographic for becoming overweight or obese. Some of the universities which will specifically target Latinos with their programs include the following: California State University: Will work to better understand ways to promote healthier eating behaviors through mindful eating among children & families in the Hispanic community. University of California: Will work to advance the fight against pediatric obesity by focusing on the expansion of both the traditional expanded food ...
Are you ready to make health a priority in your community? Then look for the National Alliance for Hispanic Health's ¡Vive tu Vida! Get Up! Get Moving! event near you! On Saturday March 7, 2015, ¡Vive tu Vida! will kick-off its ninth annual community-wide event, which brings free health screenings and fitness programming to Latinos all across the U.S. Thanks to support from local community-based organization partner, Concilio Latino de Salud & multiple sponsors such as Newman’s Own Foundation, Univision, the Embassy of Mexico and the United States Tennis Association, the first of this 11-city event series will take place on Saturday at John R. Davis Elementary School in Phoenix, Arizona. At the event, in addition to free healthy screenings, there will ...
Childhood obesity is a big problem in San Antonio. That's why Salud America! and KSAT-TV are teaming up for a new series, "Making Awesome Changes," which will regularly feature local Salud America! Salud Heroes—people and groups who are pushing for healthy changes—on the evening news. Salud America!, a Latino childhood obesity research network supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and directed by Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez of the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, uses research, stories, and resources to empower people to make healthy change in their own communities. Salud America! tells the stories of many Latino youth, parents, teachers and others are working to improve physical activity and nutrition to help reduce ...
Senators and representatives in Idaho, a state with a quickly growing Latino community, are tracking their steps, water intake, and servings of fruits and vegetables as part of a month long, friendly competition aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles and fighting childhood obesity. According to a Fox9 report 50 state legislators are taking part in a competition organized by health insurance provider Blue Cross of Idaho. At the end of the competition the three legislators who track the most physical activity and record eating more fruits and vegetables will win $5,000 from the Blue Cross of Idaho to go toward providing healthier options to elementary school children in their district. Funds will provide for outdoor exercise equipment, healthier meal options, and any other ...
Youth leaders from the Amarillo Activity Youth Center (AAYC) and the Amarillo Public Health Department are excited to announce the launch of a new healthy lifestyle program, available for free to kids ages 6-12. The 10 week Mind, Exercise, Nutrition, and Do it (MEND) program will be available starting in March 2015. In a NewsChannel 10 report, Casie Stoughton, Director of the Public Health Department said that her department was collaborating with several community partners to make the program available to children. "We will help provide families some training and hands on work to change some patterns into a more healthy lifestyle," said Stoughton. Families will attend two-hour sessions twice a week for ten weeks. The program is funded through the Harrington Cancer ...
One of Texas' largest grocery store chains is providing the communities it serves with more opportunities to get excited about health and fitness. As part of this year's H-E-B's Slim Down Showdown 30 contestants, including 6 individuals from Texas' predominantly Latino Lower Rio Grande Valley, will participate in the 14-week challenge. Contestants will share their experiences via social media by using videologs and blogs. They'll also have the opportunity to check in regularly with a registered dietitian. According to the article, contestants in Brownsville and McAllen have already had the opportunity to walk through the grocery store and learn about what foods they should eat. “We met with our dietitian so she could go over the different products that we have,” said Lettie ...
