Center for Healthy Living News
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Opciones para comer saludable en la cena de Acción de Gracias: sigue estas recomendaciones
Published: November 24, 2022
El exceso de comida, además de la cantidad de grasa y azúcar, entre otras sustancias utilizadas en la cena de Acción de Gracias, puede generar malestar y problemas de salud. La nutricionista Diana Guevara habla sobre las formas de disfrutar con los seres queridos sin necesidad de abusar de los alimentos. Esto es lo que debes saber.
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Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes from Nourish Cookbook
Published: November 22, 2022
Dolores Woods, MA, RDN, spoke to FOX 26 News about healthy Thanksgiving recipes. Yahoo! News also ran the story.
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4 Tricks to Enjoy Your Treats
Published: October 28, 2022
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
Published: October 26, 2022
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
Published: October 19, 2022
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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Walk to School Day 2022
Published: October 12, 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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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: Manifest Cooler Weather with a Colombian ‘Aromática’
Published: September 30, 2022
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
Published: September 27, 2022
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
Published: September 26, 2022
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
Published: September 15, 2022
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.
