Sesame Street provides lasting heart-healthy lessons for preschoolers
Preschoolers can learn about healthy eating and exercise through Sesame Street.In a study presented on November 18 at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2013, preschoolers in Bogotá, Colombia participating in a structured curriculum that used Sesame Street’s Healthy Habits for Life materials improved their knowledge, attitudes and habits related to a heart-healthy lifestyle.
November 22, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: association, colombia, habits-related, healthy, healthy-habits, knowledge, nutritional counseling, on call diets, scientific, sesame, sesame-street, study-presented, their-knowledge
Venezuelan Cholera Cases Trigger Control Measures In Neighboring Countries
Panama has upped sanitation and hygiene measures at all its ports and airports and Colombia has enhanced its border vigilance after 35 cholera cases were reported and confirmed in Venezuela. Franklin Vergara, Panama’s Health Minister added that since Haiti’s cholera outbreak in October 2010, the country has been “careful and vigilant”…
January 28, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: cholera-cases, colombia, country, haiti, health, health-minister, its-border, on call diets, panama, the-country