Institute for Student Health

10/30/2014

ICYMI: Our co-founder's blog getting some love today from Food Day http://www.foodday.org/latino_culture_rooted_in_food_day_values

Food Day is a nationwide celebration and a movement for healthy, affordable, and sustainable food.

10/23/2014

Latino culture is rich in good, slow, real food. In this great article featured today on Latinovations, ISH co-founder Roberto writes about food culture in Mexico and encourages Latinos to add their voices to the food movement. Check it out!

Growing up in Mexico, food was a very important part of my life and upbringing. Food brought family together. In el campo, bonds were formed and culture shared, y en la cocina lessons were learned and recipes passed down to younger generations. I vividly remember helping my grandmother pick fresh pe…

08/15/2014

We applaud Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Strong4Life for its We need strong messages like this to help change behavior and reverse this growing epidemic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUmp67YDlHY

Meet Jim—the character in our Rewind the Future video—he is a man whose life flashes right before his very eyes, unhealthy habits and all. The choices you te...

06/02/2014

Thanks University of San Diego for highlighting our co-founder and our work

http://www.sandiego.edu/publications/usdmag/summer-2014/class-notes/you-are-what-you-eat/

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05/29/2014

1/3 of the world's humans are or

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-28/obese-or-overweight-people-top-2-1-billion-worldwide.html

About 2.1 billion people, or almost one-third of the world’s population, were obese or overweight last year, researchers estimated after examining data from 183 countries.

05/23/2014

Highlight from our champions exhibition: a mom says her daughter didn't like and before our program and now she does!

05/22/2014

Our ISH Health Champions Exhibition is TONIGHT! Stop by the Mount Peasant Library from 6-8 pm to check out student service-learning projects, including a cookbook featuring this original student artwork!

05/18/2014

Want to start , but not sure what to do? Our ISH CHI Health Champion program participants have you covered. Check out this video they designed to teach others to garden.
To see more great student projects, join us at our Health Champions Exhibition this Thursday 5/22, 6-8pm at the Mt. Pleasant Library.

05/14/2014

Not great scores on our kids' report card. We need more physical activity and less

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/205896-united-states-report-card-on-physical-activity-for-children

The findings are a clarion call for action that we and members of the Congressional Fitness Caucus intend to take seriously.

05/02/2014

We and to our students, and empower our high school interns with skills

04/28/2014

"Ironically, we have an overabundance of nutrition & we train better but we’re overweight"

You're pathetic. Really. According to the latest research, human fitness has decreased so dramatically in recent years that even the strongest of us would consider ancient men to be, well, monsters.

04/26/2014

Teaching kids about and today at the