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Category Archive: Nutrition
Northwest Health Foundation releases new CHP public opinion poll
Northwest Health Foundation, through its Community Health Priorities Project, has just released new public opinion research conducted by Davis Hibbitts Midghall, revealing areas where Oregonians want health dollars spent.
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Is a Soda Tax Paternalism? Victim Blaming?
The CHP Twitter feed recently received a message from @erinashmiller, who tweeted that “taxing junk food violates horizontal & vertical equity, also paternalistic.”
The tweet included a link to an article she wrote on agriculture policy ...
Blue Zones Vitality Project: Addressing Healthy Environments One Community at a Time
A recent article in Newsweek reports on the town of Albert Lea, Minn., the first American town to sign on to the AARP/Blue Zones Vitality Project—the brainchild of Dan Buettner, author of “The Blue Zones,” which looks at the health habits ...
Public Health Not Held to “Clinical Trial” Standards of Medicine, NY Doc Writes
Public Health Not Held to Same “Clinical Trial” Standards as Medicine, NY Doc Writes
A retired pediatrician, in a recent letter to the New York Times about the city’s new salt recommendations, brings up an interesting point.
Before the ...
“35 is the new 40” says new study
According to research conducted by the Philips Center for Health and Well-Being in the Netherlands, the milestone defining middle age in the U.S. is gradually being lowered from age 40 to age 35, due to worsening lifestyle, and increasing levels ...
New York City Looks to Salt in Effort to Save Lives
New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg has just released a plan to encourage food manufacturers and restaurant chains across the country to curtail the amount of salt in their products.
It won’t affect cafés selling salt bagels.
It won’t affect ...
“There’s a growing recognition nationally that the environment is impacting the choices we make.”
This quote comes from Kate Wells, outreach director for the Heart Institute of the Cascades, and project director for Kids@Heart, a regional collaboration between advocates in central Oregon working to achieve environments more conducive for ...
New York City Soda Campaign: Gross? Yes - Controversial? Yes - Effective?
New York City is taking a proactive, outspoken role in its public health communications and is boldly developing public communications campaigns around nutrition and diet.
The current campaign shows disgusting, unadulterated, gelatinous fat ...
Too Fat to Fight: Is Obesity a National Security Issue
Every once in a while, health experts and advocates chime in that our growing obesity epidemic is not just a public health issue – it’s also an issue of national security.
One of the early voices in this argument was Professor Carlos Crespo, ...
Diabetes Cases in U.S. Could Double Within 25 Years
A study published in the December issue of Diabetes Care predicts that the number of Americans with diabetes will double by 2034, posing a “significant strain” to the U.S. health care system.
Researchers from the University of Chicago analyzed ...
Central Valley, CA: Nation’s most ironically unhealthy region
California’s Central Valley is the most productive food producing region in the U.S., raising half of the nation’s entire crop of fruits and vegetables, and serving as our largest dairy region.
Ironically, it’s also one of the poorest areas ...
New Mammogram Guidelines – Lost public health opportunity?
On Monday, November 16, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued a report modifying previous recommendations for breast cancer screening, now stating that women in their 40s should stop routinely having annual mammograms and older women ...
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