Health

Building a better school lunch, one tray at a time: SPPS incorporates new USDA menu guidelines into healthier meal offerings

Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:29

Fresh produce, local ingredients and balanced portion sizes are among the key components of a healthy meal. With that in mind, Saint Paul Public Schools Nutrition Services is stepping up its menu offerings this September by implementing new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) nutritional guidelines.

Vitamin D - essential to feeling and functioning better

Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:28 Nicole Winbush MD

Good whole foods are the best sources for health giving vitamins and nutrients. However, there are some important nutrients that can be very difficult to obtain even when eating a healthy diet. Vitamin D is one of them. This is why I recommend this supplement to all of my patients.

CDC now recommends all baby boomers receive one-time hepatitis C test

Tuesday, 21 August 2012 00:00

New approach will help avert major increases in liver disease and deaths in the U.S.

All U.S. baby boomers should get a one-time test for the hepatitis C virus, according to final recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One in 30 baby boomers – the generation born from 1945 through 1965 – has been infected with hepatitis C, and most don’t know it. Hepatitis C causes serious liver diseases, including liver cancer (the fastest-rising cause of cancer-related deaths), and is the leading cause of liver transplants in the United States.

Eliminating the diabetes health disparity

Monday, 20 August 2012 23:53 Joyce Onyekaba, M D.

It has been established that people of African descent living in the United States, experience a diabetes rate that is twice than those experienced by Caucasians. According to a report released in 2005 by the National Institute of Health, people of African descent in the US, have an 80 percent higher rate of death from stroke, a 50 percent higher rate of death from heart disease and a 320 percent greater rate of diabetes related end-stage renal disease than those in the general population. If untreated, diabetes could lead to coronary artery disease, heart attack, congestive heart failure, kidney damage and death.

Getting fit after 60 (or at any age)

Sunday, 19 August 2012 00:00 Al McFarlane, Editor-in-Chief

Editor’s Note: Join me, Tyrone Minor and his team of master fitness trainers, and mental health expert, Dr. Darren Moore, Ph.d., for the Chizel, Inc., Fitness Training Clinics at Urban League Family Day, Plymouth & Penn, N., 1-5pm Saturday, August 25. Find out if getting a personal trainer is what you need to get in shape and stay fit. Our program, Getting Fit After 60, has tips for Getting Fit At Any Age. Call me if you need more information or to pre register for Free Fitness Clinics, 612-588-1313.

Five weight loss myths: Part II

Friday, 17 August 2012 14:05 Nicole Winbush MD

In my last article I discussed five common weight loss myths. To recap these were:

Myth 1 - Skipping breakfast is a great way to lose weight

Franken, Rothman praise $1.1 billion health insurance rebate provision

Friday, 17 August 2012 13:59

U.S. Sen. Al Franken and Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman said recently that a provision in the nation’s health care law, which this year sent $1.1 billion in health insurance rebates to almost 13 million Americans – including 123,000 Minnesotans – had its origin Minnesota.