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Racial disparities play a role in weight gain among postmenopausal women After menopause, non-Hispanic Black women are more likely to experience weight gain than non-Hispanic white women, researchers at the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging have found. The results of their study were published March 1 in the medical journal PLOS ONE. Working in collaboration with colleagues at other leading research institutions, the Rush investigators set out to determine how weight status (a person's weight classification using standard measurements) contributes to differences in postmenopausal weight gain...

Amid pandemic suffering, Latinos grapple with sharp rise in opioid overdoses Jorge Carrasco, Noticias Telemundo Diego considers himself fortunate. The 49-year-old man, who is only being identified by his first name for privacy reasons, thinks back on some dark moments in his life —all associated with drugs. He said his brothers introduced him to narcotics when he was 12 and living in his hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts. By the time he was 17, said Diego, who is of Puerto Rican descent, he was not only using drugs, but also trafficking in them. He said the drugs plun...

When researcher Lauren Zalla was digging into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's reports about the racial and ethnic disparities in...

Twitter Facebook Birgit Claus Henn first developed a curiosity about environmental exposures and children’s health well before she understood the subject as a core area of public health. As early as second grade, she aspired to be a pediatrician. Then, two middle-school science fair projects—one on the effects of pollutants on brine shrimp (sea-monkeys) and another that examined levels of UV protection in lenses—sealed the deal. Now, as an associate professor of environmental health and the director of the PhD program in environmental health at the School of Public Health, Claus H...

Dynamics of Diabetes: Diabetes Meal Planning By Constance Brown-Riggs, MSEd, RDN, CDCES, CDN Today’s Dietitian Helping Clients Rediscover the High-Carbohydrate Foods They Love Having diabetes shouldn’t prevent clients and patients from living healthy lives and enjoying the ethnic foods they grew up with. Unfortunately, that’s not the message many people of color with diabetes receive during encounters with nutrition professionals. All too often, starchy vegetables such as pumpkin, plantain, and cassava, which are the foundation of many global cuisines, are classified as “bad�...