For many folks living in Lakewood, Colorado, a small city near Denver, a quick trip to the grocery store to buy fresh, healthy produce just isn't a reality. Between West 17th and West Arkansas avenues, a 31 block stretch, families in this area are forced to buy groceries at the dollar store---a large grocery store does not exist. However, Lakewood is in the midst of an effort to make life easier for families in this area. The city, in partnership with LiveWell Colorado, is assessing how accessible healthy food is to its nearly 150,000 residents. Latinos make up 22% of residents in Lakewood. The City is encouraging residents to fill out a healthy foods survey online. The deadline to fill out the 10-minute questionnaire is Friday May 29. Results will be released in ...
The Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project, a collaboration between The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has released more poll results that show wide support for healthy school food policies. A report last month found overwhelming support for healthy school food policies throughout Kansas, and this new poll found that parents and voters in Pennsylvania feel similar. The survey found that 98 percent of parents and 96 percent of voters think serving nutritious foods in schools is important to "ensure that children are prepared to learn and do their best." Additionally, about three-quarters of parents and voters in Pennsylvania say that meals would be substantially better if schools offered a greater variety of fruits, vegetables, and whole ...
This summer, many kids will spend many sunny days indoors staring at a screen, getting little exercise and reaching for lots of sugary drinks, according to the YMCA's Family Health Snapshot survey of 1,200 parents, Today.com reports. Here are some key findings: About 64% of parents said their kids spend three or more hours a day online, playing video games or watching TV during the summer. That's 30% more screen time than during the school year.
While produce consumption rises during the summer months, many kids still don't eat the recommended amount of vegetables.
Only 26% of kids spend more than an hour each day reading a book for fun during the summer.
About 75% of kids consume sugary drinks at least weekly during the summer, and 25% of kids average one or more sugary ...
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 ...
Latinos express widespread optimism and satisfaction with life in the United States, but are not confident in the nation's current direction, according to a new survey, the Denver Post reports. The State of the Latino Family survey, conducted by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, interviewed 1,000 Latinos to explore the attitudes and quality of life of Latinos, who are expected to rise from 17% of the current U.S. population to about 30% by 2060. The good news? Latinos have "upbeat attitudes" on several fronts, such as economic opportunities, personal health and the education of their children. For example, more than 60% of Latino parents with young children are attending parent-teacher conferences, volunteering at the schools and working with administrators and teachers. The bad ...
We all know that healthier school meals improve kids' diets. But did you know kids' like them? The first national surveys of school leaders show that the majority of students like the new healthier lunches schools are offering after USDA’s improved nutrition standards went into effect in fall 2012. This study is done by Bridging the Gap, a nationally recognized research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation dedicated to improving the understanding of how policies and environmental factors affect diet, physical activity and obesity among youth, as well as youth tobacco use. In elementary school the study finds that there hasn't been a significant impact on participation in the school lunch program. Sixty‐five percent of public elementary schools reported no overall ...
We all know that healthier school meals improve kids' diets. But did you know kids' like them? The first national surveys of school leaders show that the majority of students like the new healthier lunches schools are offering after USDA’s improved nutrition standards went into effect in fall 2012. This study is done by Bridging the Gap, a nationally recognized research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation dedicated to improving the understanding of how policies and environmental factors affect diet, physical activity and obesity among youth, as well as youth tobacco use. In elementary school the study finds that there hasn't been a significant impact on participation in the school lunch program. Sixty‐five percent of public elementary schools reported no overall ...
Spanish-speaking Latinos, have you been affected by cancer? If so, you're invited to take a new survey about how to improve cancer-related services from LIVESTRONG. LIVESTRONG, which is currently reaching out to Latinos to offer information about the Spanish services available to those being affected by cancer, hopes survey respondents will identify what additional or future actions need to be taken to improve the cancer community. Find out more information in Spanish or take the survey ...
