Many Latino kids are faced with unhealthy snack choices and often are marketed these high- sugary options in candy and sodas more than their peers. The Center for Science in the Public Interest is asking parents to ask General Mills and Betty Crocker to stop confusing kids with advertising candy as fruit snacks. Nutritional facts are often hard to understand for parents, and studies show children are influenced by mascots and cartoons and foods advertised on television and in phone apps. To learn more about how you can get involved, click here. Copy & Share on Twitter: What are your kids eating? #SaludAmerica Learn more on what @CSPI is asking @GeneralMills ...
Students across the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), participated in the Healthy Schools Campaign healthy cooking contests. Students were challenged to create a nutritious lunch that includes fresh fruit and vegetables, meets USDA nutrition guidelines, be under 760 calories and costs less than $1.70. The challenge allows students to win a chance to represent Los Angeles across the state and serve the model meal in an all-expenses paid Cooking up Change competition in the capitol. The winner could go on from there to serve the meal to congress and become a model meal for schools across the country. Having healthy options and creative ways to get kids involved in creating healthy meals is a innovative way to change school food environments. Studies show that when ...
Eating high sugar diets have been known to cause health risks for many years, but a new study based on nearly 3,200 U.S adults whose diet habits and cancer rates were tracked for more than 2o years, show that 565 people were diagnosed with cancer. In the study, results showed that women whose diets consisted of healthy carbohydrates like vegetables, fruit, whole grains and legumes, had a 67 percent less likelihood of developing breast cancer, compared to women who favored refined carbs like white bread, potatoes and white baked goods. The study also revealed that men who drank sugary juices or beverages were more than three times as likely to develop disease verses men who didn't drink sugary juices or beverages. The lead researcher, Ph.D. candidate in nutrition at New York ...
Part of the company Reebok's core values is fitness and health now they are standing for health in the headquarters by banning all soda, fried foods, candy, sugary beverages and white breads and pastas. Hoping to show their value of health within the workplace, Reebok has kicked out soda and has removed all sugary beverages, fried foods, candy, white bread and pasta from its headquarters in Canton, MA. The athletic company and staff will now enjoy nuts, fruits, and vegetables in the kitchens across the company campus and affirm the importance of a healthy workplace across their company brand. Building a healthy workplace is important for Latino's who are often more at risk for diseases that are linked to sugary beverages and junk food like diabetes and heart disease. Brands ...
Marketing companies often target communities of color, including Latino kids who are more at risk of not growing up a healthy weight. The Council of Better Business Bureaus announced today, Wednesday, March 16th, 2016, that six candy companies have now agreed not to advertise their brands to kids. These brands included Brach's, Lemonhead, Ghirardelli, Jelly Belly, Mike and Ike, and Welch's Fruit Snacks, all now part of the first companies to participate in the Children's Confection Advertising Initiative. One way to ensure that the candy industry uniformly rejects advertising to children, explains the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CFSPI), is to recognize the progress these companies have made. CFSPI encourages those interested in supporting these healthy efforts, ...
A new study reveals that a whopping 60% of what we eat in the U.S. is considered "junk food" loaded with fat, salt, and sugar that we’re not supposed to eat, NBC Health reports. The study reports that this is evidence of why two-thirds of Americans and why 60% of Latinos in the U.S. are overweight or obese. "The most common ultra-processed foods in terms of energy contribution were breads, soft drinks, fruit drinks, and milk-based drinks; cakes, cookies, and pies; salty snacks; frozen and shelf-stable plates; pizza and breakfast cereals," Dr. Carlos Augusto Monteiro of the University of São Paulo and colleagues there, and at Tufts University in Boston, wrote in their report. The study found that just under 650 calories of the average 2,000 calorie-a-day-diet were from fruits ...
Food insecurity is a lack of access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. Minn. is just one of many states across the country impacted by food insecurity, with over ten percent of the state dealing with a lack of healthy foods that is costing $1.6 billion in healthcare and education costs to alleviate hunger in the state. According to a recent article, this lack of food is highly correlated, especially in areas of poverty, to chronic disease. Working to alleviate health and hunger concerns simultaneously, Boston Consulting Group helped bring together Second Harvest Heartland (SHH), a food bank in Minn. and Hennepin County Medical Center(HCMC), to connect food insecure patients to healthy ...
"More than 40% of Latino children in the U.S. are growing up overweight, that's almost half of all Latino kids in the country, those kids are at risk of developing serious health problems like asthma, diabetes and heart disease," said Marissa Ortega-Welch of Latino USA on a recent radio show. In the mainly Latino populated school districts of Oakland, Cali. schools are taking healthier school foods a step further, banning junk food from school property. Most schools across the U.S. are working on implementing the standards of healthier school lunches but many kids and or parents still opt for lunches from home, allowing junk food to be a part of school's food environments. In Esperanza Elementary (98% Latino) most of the school kids are under the free and reduced lunches, so ...
Not getting enough sleep at nights may be causing your junk food cravings, according to a study. After scanning 23 young adults after a normal night’s sleep and after a sleepless night researchers at UC Berkeley found “impaired activity in the sleep-deprived brain’s frontal lobe, which governs complex decision-making, but increased activity in deeper brain centers that respond to rewards. Moreover, the participants favored unhealthy snack and junk foods when they were sleep deprived.” “What we have discovered is that high-level brain regions required for complex judgments and decisions become blunted by a lack of sleep, while more primal brain structures that control motivation and desire are amplified,” said Matthew Walker, a UC Berkeley professor of psychology and ...
