Category Archive: Education
How the University of Minnesota Plans to Lower Obesity Rates
The University of Minnesota has received a $7 million National Institutes of Health grant to create a childhood obesity center that hopes to change the exercise and eating habits of more 530 Minnesota families.
Researchers plan to address the ...
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“Zombies” PSA Wins 2010 “Public Health Matters” Contest
The votes are in, and the winner is “Public Health and Zombies,” directed by Anthony Hudson, a student at Pacific Northwest College of Art. For his prize-winning entry, and obvious hard work, Anthony earned a $3,000 cash prize and a visit with ...
New Study Finds Fitter Students do Better Academically
A Louisiana study of public school students’ physical fitness found the fittest students tended to perform better on state standardized tests.
This is new evidence demonstrating the threat to academic performance if physical education were to ...
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 ...
Portland Public Schools and Physical Education: Progress but not total victory
Thanks in large part to the hard work of the Coalition to Save Portland PE, particularly the indefatigable Mary Lou Hennrich, Portland Public Schools will not completely gut its physical education programs in spite of upcoming budget restraints. ...
Portland-area Health Advocates Rally to Prevent PE Cuts
One of Oregon’s great public health champions, Mary Lou Hennrich, explains it like this:
“I hope you are aware of the impending disaster should Portland School Board decide to act on Superintendent Carole Smith’s proposal to cut ALL ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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