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CHP Grant Helps Latinos Influence New Park in Odell, Ore.
CHP grants are provided to communities that want to take action to improve health. If you want to host community meetings to brainstorm ideas and develop a plan for change, a CHP grant could help support flyers, publicity, and refreshments. In ...Read more >
“Food Desert” Issue Gains Recognition Nationwide
The first time the Oregonian brought it up was back in 2008. Now the idea that “food deserts” are located in cities throughout the nation is getting wider recognition. In Columbus, Ohio, the Dispatch reports on the work of Randi Love, ...Read more >
Tobacco and Obesity Prevention: Now competing for limited funding?
In a recent New England Journal of Medicine editorial, Steven A. Schroeder, M.D., and Kenneth E. Warner, Ph.D.write that, at a time when health funding sources are focusing efforts and dollars on obesity prevention, smoking remains by far the most ...Read more >
Diabetes: What’s rice got to do with it?
A recent study in the Archives of Internal Medicine makes a direct connection between the consumption of white v. brown rice and the risk of developing diabetes. Those who eat white rice on a regular basis — five or more times a week — are ...Read more >
Public Health: “The causes of the causes of death”
In the past, we’ve sent out props to Dick Jackson, (Dr. Richard Jackson, Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA), and the current issue of Fast Company magazine offers another slew of quotations and observations from this great champion ...Read more >
Good Health: How Can we Make a Difference?
Good Health: How Can we Make a Difference?: To keep our neighbors healthy and connected, it’s important to get them to turn off their TVs, get out of their homes and talk with each other. For our rural communities, this is especially important. Hood River is one of the most bountiful ...Read more >
Only 50% of 8th grade girls and 66% of 8th grade boys in Oregon meet CDC physical activity recommendations of 60 minutes per day. 