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When it comes to health care, it matters where you live
Staff WriterThe pain in Estela Delgado’s back was excruciating for months. One day the 51-year-old was fine. She had been exercising, eating right, taking vitamins. Then she felt a pop in her back, and the pain started. After getting worse and worse over a two-...Tags: Bones and Joints, Demographics, Chemotherapy, Emergency Health Procedures, Hospitals and Clinics
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Health issues vary in low-income Imperial County
Staff WriterIn Imperial Valley two in every five people are obese, nearly 13,000 people have been diagnosed with diabetes and 163 children were hospitalized in 2010 due to asthma. The Valley leads the state with these factors, having the highest rates of diabetes,...Tags: Personal Income, Soccer, Hospitals and Clinics, Knees, Health and Safety at School
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Voice: Sugary drinks not full answer
MPH, RD, Los AngelesImperial County public health officials and Food Bank representatives missed an opportunity to make an impactful difference in the health of county residents with the Community Expansion Nutrition Project (“Campaign Aims at Sugary Drinks,”...Tags: Nutrition, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Weight, Health, Coca-Cola Co.
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Renowned autism researcher to speak at SDSU-IV
Staff Writer, Copy EditorConfessing that doctors and researchers have quite a way to go before they can begin to understand the causes of autism, one of the nation’s foremost autism experts said he is nonetheless excited about a recent research finding that may eventually...Tags: Human Body, Weight, Health and Safety at School, Medical Research, Genes and Chromosomes
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Children prove themselves during annual asthma walk and track and field meet
Staff WriterMany kids proved their mettle Saturday during a series of track and field events at Central Union High School. Jaime Inzunza was no exception. Jaime, an 11-year-old fifth-grader from Sunflower Elementary School, was catching his breath after...Tags: Healthy Diet, Physical Conditions, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Asthma, Track and Field
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Our View: Valley's abundant crops deserve fair promotion
With the California Mid-Winter Fair & Fiesta soon coming to a close, so will some Valley residents’ opportunity to try some of the tasty fare that debuted there this year. Two standouts that seemed to have fair-goers beside themselves were the deep-...Tags: Healthy Diet, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Bacon
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Campaign aims at sugary drinks
Staff Writer, Copy EditorCounty public health officials as well as Imperial County Food Bank representatives were on hand Tuesday at the Posada Del Sol apartments in El Centro as part of the Rethink Your Drink campaign, which aims to promote healthy drink choices in the...Tags: Politics, Elections
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El Centro preschool gardens to fight obesity
Staff WriterFour-year-old Samantha Larios was having a fun time Wednesday, digging in the dirt and finding worms. She got to hang out with her mom while at preschool, and she got to make flowers grow. More than that, though, the two dozen children and their parents...Tags: Healthy Diet, Family, Education, Arable Farming, Weight
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Our View: Tackling kids' health from the ground up
The obesity problem in Imperial County is a multifaceted issue, so it probably is going to take a many-pronged approach to make a demonstrable impact on it. That is why we like the “Little Hands Growing and Cooking Health Foods,” program,...Tags: Healthy Diet, Family, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Diets and Dieting, Weight
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Our View: Obesity study looks beyond clinical approach
One would be hard pressed to find a member of the general public that wasn’t aware that childhood obesity is a major problem in the Valley. And while the causes — poverty levels, dietary habits, lack of exercise, to name a few — seem...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Weight, Weight, Medical Research, Schools
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Multi-agency study to tackle Valley obesity problem
Imperial Valley Press Staff Writer, Copy EditorAs part of the multidimensional childhood obesity study, Clinicas de Salud del Pueblo will be given grant money to hire temporary volunteers to perform family intervention in the community, officials said. Community volunteers — promotoras —...Tags: Weight, Weight, Health and Safety at School, Medical Research, Health and Medical Professionals
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Preschoolers in the Valley are part of the Food Justice movement
Multimedia producerLuce Filiatrault showed the preschoolers cards with drawings of the fruits she was going to use to make a green smoothie. “What is this ingredient?” she asked. “Blueberries,” the children replied. “They look like...Tags: Blueberries, Healthy Diet, Family, Crime, Law and Justice, Diets and Dieting
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