Category Archive: Did You Know?
66% of all Milk Consumed in Schools is Sweetened
Have you seen the video of Jamie Oliver pouring a wheelbarrow full or sugar cubes onto an auditorium floor saying “this is how much the average kid consumes per year.”
In April 2011, the New York Times put out a piece about the toxicity of ...
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2011 Youth Photo Contest Winners Announced
More than one hundred entries in the 2011 Community Health Priorities public health photo contest have provided everyone involved with an emboldened faith in today’s youth. And youth participation wasn’t limited to submitting photos - they also ...
Cost of Overweight and Obesity in U.S: $270 Billion Per Year
This figure is provided by the Society of Actuaries in a new study. Most of the costs result from the increased need for medical care, but other areas include the loss of worker productivity from early death and disability.
The findings are ...
Poll: Should Food Stamps Pay for Soda?
According to the American Journal of Public Health, the soft drink industry receives a $4 billion subsidy from taxpayers each year. That’s how much soda is purchased with public money from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program ...
Dartmouth Atlas Again Shows Quantity of Care Has Little Relationship to Quality
Health research has long demonstrated that more doctors in a given area does not translate to better health. Now, a new study at the Dartmouth Health Atlas shows that more doctors doesn’t even mean better health care.
As one researcher said, ...
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 ...
FIFA World Cup: How healthy is it?
As the world starts to tune into the FIFA World Cup, should we be concerned about the adverse affects of this sporting event on population health?
First there was an outcry over the three largest sponsors of the event:
Coca ...
Nielson Report: Kids’ TV use at an 8-year high - 2-5 year olds now watch 32 hours of TV per week
New data from television monitoring group Nielsen indicates that each week children on average spend more than 28 hours per week watching TV, representing an eight-year high for television viewing among children. Based on an analysis of live and ...
Poll reveals broad support among Oregon public for tobacco tax
All across the state, Oregonians show broad support for a 60-cent tax on a pack of cigarettes. This is according to a poll conducted by Davis Hibbitts Midghall Inc., commissioned by the Tobacco-Free Coalition of Oregon (TOFCO), and released to ...
Add car repair and new front porch to the true costs of smoking
Cancer, emphysema, stroke, forest fires, and now this:
From the Oregonian: 5/25/09:
“Man drops cigarette, crashes car”
Christopher Clawson dropped his cigarette in his lap Sunday evening while driving his car south on 206th Avenue in ...
New research shows 34% of the recent increase in Oregon’s health expenses is related to obesity.
The percent of Oregonians who are obese doubled from 1990-2005; during roughly the same period, health care spending in our state rose 8% per year. Obesity is a health problem, most of us are aware of that. But it’s also an economic problem, ...
Stimulus Bill to Include Investment in Public Health
Did you know that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (HR 1), commonly referred to as the economic stimulus bill, contains some important public health funding?
The bill includes $3 billion for public health and prevention that ...
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