Subscribe to the RSS feed.
What's RSS?
The Conversation
Category Archive: Nutrition
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 ...
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. Among the ...
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 ...
Next Page
Viewing page 1 of 5.
