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Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes from Nourish Cookbook

Dolores Woods, MA, RDN, spoke to FOX 26 News about healthy Thanksgiving recipes. Yahoo! News also ran the story.

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Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Their Significance and Impact

With the fall semester well under way, the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living (the Center) would like to take time to celebrate and acknowledge the tremendous impact and significance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The contributions made by HBCUs across the country, specifically in Texas, are immeasurable in terms of education and economy.

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4 Tricks to Enjoy Your Treats

With Halloween right around the corner, many people are looking forward to having a traditional evening of trick-or-treating with friends and neighbors, while others are planning to have a quieter at-home celebration. Regardless of how you plan to spend your Halloween, the ultimate goal is to have a safe, fun holiday that does not involve a sugar hangover!

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Getting to Know Center Faculty: Dr. Dale Mantey

Dr. Mantey began his work at UTHealth School of Public Health in Austin as a postdoctoral fellow and is now an Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences in the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living at the School of Public Health Austin Campus. His work centers around the health of adolescents, more specifically, the prevention of youth substance (tobacco and cannabis) use and abuse.

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Substantial proportion of ethnically diverse children from low-resource backgrounds report long-term COVID-19 complications

Research from Dr. Sarah Messiah, published Monday in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, found that pediatric patients with private health insurance were 66% less likely to report long COVID symptoms versus those with government insurance.

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Hispanic Heritage Month: Discussing Hispanic vs. Latino vs. Latinx

As we continue to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month (HHM) through October 15, it is worth taking some time to discuss the language and demographic categories public health professionals use in their research. In this case, these terms include Hispanic, Latino, Latina, Latine, and Latinx.

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Walk to School Day 2022

Wednesday, October 12, 2022 is Walk to School Day, an international event that takes place annually on the second Wednesday of October in which children and families from over 40 countries walk or bike to school on the same day.

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Indigenous Peoples' Day 2022

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor America’s first inhabitants and the Tribal Nations that continue to thrive today. The contributions that Indigenous peoples have made throughout history — in public service, business, education, science, and the arts, among other fields — are integral to our country, our culture, and our society. It is also a day to recognize that there were indigenous people here long before European settlers ever set foot in the Americas, and it is a day to honor that rich history.

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Get to Know Keynote Speaker Dr. Angela Odoms-Young

This year for the Philip R. Nader Legacy of Health Lectureship, we are excited to introduce our keynote speaker, Dr. Angela Odoms-Young, Associate Professor and Director of the Food and Nutrition Education in Communities Program at Cornell University. Her research centers on understanding the social and structural determinants of dietary behaviors in low-income populations and black, indigenous, and people of color and identifying culturally appropriate programs and policies that promote health equity, food justice, and community resilience.

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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: Manifest Cooler Weather with a Colombian ‘Aromática’

Community Health Education Specialist, Diana Guevara, MPH, RD, LD, shares a Colombian recipe for Hispanic Heritage Month.

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Deep-rooted child obesity issue in Texas and Waco area offers no quick fixes

Deanna Hoelscher, PhD, RD, was interviewed by the Waco Tribune-Herald about the prevalence of childhood obesity in Texas.

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Houston mother, 6-year-old son, battle long COVID

A study led by Sarah Messiah, PhD, MPH, which showed some children suffer from long COVID, was mentioned in a Texas Standard segment.

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Synagogues collaborating to help enable food security, nutritional self sufficiency

Shreela Sharma, PhD, RDN, was interviewed by the Jewish Herald-Voice about a nonprofit, Brighter Bites, which is affiliated with UTHealth School of Public Health and aims to address food insecurity among low-income families.

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Back to School: The Dangers of Kids and Vaping

Steven Kelder, PhD, MPH, talked to FOX 26 News about the dangers of vaping for children and adolescents.

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Educators, other experts aim to build momentum in fight against youth vaping

CATCH My Breath, developed by UTHealth School of Public Health, was included in an American Heart Association story that was picked up by Chron.com, the Beaumont Enterprise, the Laredo Morning Times, HealthDay, and other publications about initiatives to deter vaping in children and adolescents.

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Adolescents with severe obesity lost weight, kept it off, and erased comorbidities after bariatric surgery

Research led by Sarah Messiah, PhD, MPH, which found that adolescents with severe obesity saw positive outcomes after bariatric surgery, was covered by Medical Xpress, Bioengineer.org, Science Magazine, and Endocrinology Network.

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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15-October 15 each year in the United States to recognize the contributions and influence of Hispanic Americans to the history, culture, and achievements of the United States. Center staff member Alejandra Gonzalez shares what being Hispanic means to her, and local events to join in on the celebrations.

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Clinical trial comparing concussion treatments now recruiting adolescent patients

Gregory Knell, PhD, is investigating the effects of different treatments, including light exercise and screen time restrictions, on recovery from a sport-related concussion among adolescents.

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Teachers hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic

In the 2019-2020 school year, 4 million schoolteachers served approximately 60 million children in the United States. Historically, teachers have experienced lower wages, greater imbalances in effort and reward, unhealthy lifestyles, higher levels of food insecurity, greater work stress, and more signs of poor physical and mental well-being. However, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers have been subjected to a different level of financial crisis, exhaustion and burnout. As part of the Sharma Doctoral Fellowship, in partnership with Brighter Bites non-profit organization, two Sharma fellows, Fangyu Li and Nivi Parthasarathy, assessed the impact of social determinants of health on schoolteachers’ food insecurity and stress.

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Dietician shares brain-boosting breakfast ideas to start the school year off right for your children

Dolores Woods, MA, RDN, talked to KHOU-TV Channel 11 about preparing a healthy breakfast for your children as kids are heading back to school.