LatinaLista — The disturbing childhood obesity rates and skyrocketing cases of Type 2 diabetes in Latino communities reinforce the fact of just how imperative it is for Latinos to start eating healthy. In a lot of neighborhoods, that’s a losing battle. Data shows that most predominant Latino neighborhoods have 1/3 less the number of supermarkets [...]
New collaboration creates easy access to healthy dishes with MyPlate recipes
LatinaLista — First Lady Michelle Obama has spearheaded the national effort to get children healthier by tackling the childhood obesity problem. From making healthy eating a part of her Let’s Move! campaign to getting school cafeterias to serve up healthier dishes to guilting national food chains to offer more healthy alternatives for kids and making [...]
Study says not enough home-cooked meals underlying cause for Latino child obesity
LatinaLista — For most Latino families, it used to be that eating cheaply meant eating a homemade meal made from the basic Latino food groups — corn, rice and beans. Yet, thanks to a new study from the University of Illinois at Chicago, eating cheap has become synonymous with fast-food and it’s making our kids [...]
Latino Students, Families Urged to Join ‘No-Soda’ Challenge
Salud Today Latinos kids: Don’t drink sodas during the school week. This is the no-soda challenge being asked of Austin, Texas, students and their families by a Latino group, Manantial de Salud, a federally funded grassroots health network sponsored by the Latino Healthcare Forum in Austin’s Dove Springs neighborhood. The pledge—which essentially asks students and [...]
Childhood obesity in Latino communities doomed to persist if health programs don’t take a page from public libraries
LatinaLista — The Center for American Progress released a memo today entitled The Significance of Childhood Obesity in Communities of Color. The memo didn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know — that Latino and African American children are too fat for their own good. Childhood obesity rates of African Americans and Hispanics increased by [...]
Study reveals some Latina mothers unwittingly chart an obese future for their children
LatinaLista — Even before researchers conducted their study on childhood obesity differences among white, black and Latino children, they hypothesized that black and Latino children would have higher rates of obesity-related risk factors in their early years. It wasn’t a hard hypothesis. In the March edition of Pediatrics, researchers release the findings of their study, [...]
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