Monthly Archives: March 2013

Opportunity for Health Care Providers to Learn About Preventing Childhood Obesity

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Healthcare providers are invited to learn more about preventing and treating childhood obesity on April 11, 2013, from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Hotel Arista in Naperville. 

The Summit, “Strategies for Pediatric Obesity Prevention and Control,” is free and is intended for healthcare professionals working with children and their families. Continuing Medical Education credits are available. Registration is at 7 a.m. with the program from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. and a local Resources Fair from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Continue reading →

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Help Support Smart Snacks in Schools

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Parents, students, school staff, community partners and others are invited to comment on USDA’s newly proposed rule supporting “Smarter Snacks in Schools.” These new nutrition standards will ensure that schools offer healthier snacks for our children, while limiting less nutritious foods and beverages sold in school vending machines, snack carts, a la carte, and school stores during the school day.

Parents and schools can and should work together to make certain children are eating healthfully. Many children consume up to half their daily calories at school, and most are eating a snack. Let’s make sure our children are eating healthy options!

The proposed rule:

    Promotes snack foods with whole grains, low-fat/fat-free dairy, fruits, vegetables or protein as the main ingredient. Continue reading →
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Spring Into Action Against Allergies

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Spring arrives today and the DuPage County Health Department has suggestions for people with hay fever to limit their exposure to pollen and mold.

Spring marks the beginning of symptoms for people who cope with this allergy. Seasonal hay fever is one of the most common kinds of allergies. About 35 million Americans suffer from hay fever. Symptoms include sneezing, stuffiness, a runny nose, and itchiness in your nose, the roof of your mouth, throat, eyes or ears. Sometimes the symptoms can turn into chronic respiratory problems, such as asthma. Continue reading →

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Good Habits Are the Foundation to Good Health

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WaiLana.com shared this healthy tip:

Good health is like growing a garden—we must actively cultivate it. You can’t just throw a bunch of seeds out the back door and expect a garden to appear. Healthy plants require good soil, sunlight, water, and weeding. If you neglect these basic principles for even a couple of days, your once perky plants will be drooping on the dirt.

Likewise, we can’t neglect the body’s basic requirements and expect to stay healthy. Cultivating good health requires proper nutrition, hydration, exercise, and rest. While the signs of neglect may not show up overnight, failing to establish good habits will catch up with us sooner or later. So if you’re feeling lethargic, irritable, or see other symptoms creeping up, it’s time to get back to the basics.

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Americans are some of the most overfed and yet undernourished people on the planet, and it shows.

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Shaklee shared the following information:

The United States ranks 40th in the developed world for life expectancy even though we spend far more per person on health care than any other country. A new study from the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine says that the life-expectancy gap between the US and other developed countries is only getting larger.

Shocked? We should be! Continue reading →

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Use Daylight Saving To Get Healthier

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The DuPage County Health Department urges DuPage County residents to add some physical activity to their lives as they “spring forward” into Daylight Saving Time on Sunday, March 10, 2013.
 
The health department recommends that residents use the extra hours of daylight to add some “healthy habits” to their lives. For example:

    Use the extra hour of daylight in the evening to go for a walk,
    begin your gardening when the weather is a little warmer
    begin a new outdoor hobby such as golf or tennis.
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Eating vegetables instead of meat lowers heart risk

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Andrea Gerlin reported in the Daily Herald Newspaper on March 4th that vegetarians were 32 percent less likely to be hospitalized or die from heart disease than people who ate meat and fish, scientists at England’s Oxford University reported. The researchers followed almost 45,000 adults, one-third of them vegetarians, for an average of 11½ years and accounted for factors such as their age, whether they smoked, alcohol consumption, physical activity, education and socio-economic background, according to the study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

“Probably most of the difference is accounted for by the fact that the vegetarians had lower cholesterol and lower blood pressure,” Francesca Crowe, one of the authors of the study and a nutritional epidemiologist at Oxford, said in a telephone interview. “Diet is an important determinant of heart disease.” Continue reading →

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