#SaludTues Tweetchat 1p ET 1/26/16: “How to Ensure Latino Kids Enter Kindergarten at a Healthy Weight”

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Latino kids are more obese by ages 2-5 than white kids, which is alarming because early childhood obesity tends to continue into adulthood.

What can we do?

Let’s use #SaludTues on Jan. 26, 2016, to tweet about new Salud America! research on innovative strategies to help Latino kids achieve a healthy weight, including how to address maternal obesity, unhealthy infant feeding patterns, and workplace and childcare issues that affect nutrition and physical activity levels.

• WHAT: #SaludTues Tweetchat: “How to Ensure Latino Kids are Healthy Weight Before Kindergarten”

• TIME/DATE: 1-2 p.m. EST Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016
• WHERE: On Twitter with hashtag #SaludTues
• HOST: @SaludToday
• CO-HOSTS: Texas Department of State Health Services (@TexasDSHS); Young Child Facts (@youngchildfacts); and Nacersano (@nacersano)
• SPECIAL GUEST: Stephen Cook, MD (@DrSteveCook)

We’ll open the floor to your experiences and stories as we explore:

• The results of a new research package, “Healthy Weight & Latino Kids,” by Salud America!, a national Latino childhood obesity research network based at the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, the team behind SaludToday and the #SaludTues tweetchats.
• Barriers preventing Latino children from growing up at a healthy weight.
• Avenues to improve prenatal, workplace, and early childcare interventions and policies.

Be sure to use the hashtag #SaludTues to follow the conversation on Twitter and share your strategies, stories, and resources that can help raise awareness about important health issues that affect Latino children at the earliest ages.

#SaludTues is a weekly Tweetchat about Latino health at 12p CST/1p ET every Tuesday and hosted by @SaludToday, the Latino health social media campaign for the team at the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.