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Category Archive: Nutrition
“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, ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Another link to obesity: Abuse
New research has just been published which shows that children of abused women are at increased risk of being obese.
The study of 1,595 boys and girls showed that children whose mothers were victims of abuse were more likely to be obese by age 5 ...
Kaiser National Essay Contest Winner: Corn Subsidies at Root of Obesity Epidemic
Each year, Kaiseredu.org holds a student essay contest covering health and health care. This year, the assignment was: “It is January 2015. What do you see as the major health policy challenges still facing the nation? Please identify the top two ...
Latest National Security Threat: Obesity
Although we’ve been reporting on this issue for a long time, today retired U.S. Army Gen. John M. Shalikashvili and retired U.S. Army Gen. Hugh Shelton (both former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) have now declared obesity in the U.S. ...
KFC & Komen - “Pinkwashing”?
We recently received an e-mail from people taking extreme exception to KFC’s (Kentucky Fried Chicken before they changed their name to remove emphasis on “Fried”) Buckets for the Cure campaign to dedicate proceeds of its chicken sales to Susan G. ...Photo Contest Winners Announced
On Tuesday night, April 6, in a jam-packed screening room at the Hollywood Theater in Portland, Oregon, the top three winners of the 2010 Public Health Photo Contest were announced and presented with their cash awards.
First place and $300 was ...
What a CHP Grant can do – For Latina Women in Jackson County
Latina Women in the United States have worse birth outcomes than their non-Latina counterparts.
Latina teens living in the United States get pregnant twice as often as the national average.
Second-generation Latina women have less healthy ...
85 Youth from All Over Oregon Use Camera to Show What Health Means to Them
- Scio
- Hood River
- La Grande
- Tillamook
- Lincoln City
- The Dalles
- St. Helens
- Clackamas
These are just some of the towns from which we received entries in this year’s photo contest. It was another success as we received 85 photos from ...
What a CHP Grant Can Do - For an Immigrant Community in Portland
According to Elizabeth Fussell, Development Director, at the VOZ Workers Rights Education Project, “our community conversations went extremely well! We had a total of 87 day laborers participate, of which 40 attended all three of the films and ...
What a CHP Grant Can Do - In Eugene
Community Health Priorities has small grants available for people interested in taking the first steps to making their communities healthier for everyone.
What does this mean?
What does this entail?
What does this look like?
The answer is ...
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