“Service Learning in Health and Wellness” is a course offered by CCAPP at The City College of NY, which guides students to learn through hands-on services that address health issues in Harlem.
We've worked on making healthy snacks available in school vending machines, improved school cafeteria’s recycling, convinced local bodegas to offer healthy lunches, hosted farmers’ market, and developed a Healthy Living Guide with cancer prevention tips.
Monday, February 8, 2010
NIH and obesity (great reads for your tuesday HomeWork)
so environment is also a factor in leading health problems, including obesity. This is totally another way we can approach our solution! Women with bigger waistlines are at high risk of a sooner death than other women? That fact should be of use to us. But the question is...do we want to go green with this project? Can we help the environment while at the same time enforce a healthier lifestyle?
Ofcourse Environment is a huge factor, and we should try to incorporate our environment when we discuss HEALTH. Look at that, once the global warming starts showing its real face, we'll encounter many infections (viral or bacterial) that we've never seen before as the temperature will nourish many pathogens. I am real fan of saving the PLANET EARTH, and I just can't stand it when we are trying to deal with epidemics and how the environment is playing a huge role. NOW, e.g., the cholera epidemic was deadly and was taken care of, but it still exists in places like Bangladesh, and causes many early deaths. This is so largely due to the climate in Bangladesh in the Ganges River Basin. We can discuss that if you want with more details, and you guys will be amazed once you realize how our environment can alter our health (and perhaps in an Irreversible manner too)!
so environment is also a factor in leading health problems, including obesity. This is totally another way we can approach our solution! Women with bigger waistlines are at high risk of a sooner death than other women? That fact should be of use to us. But the question is...do we want to go green with this project? Can we help the environment while at the same time enforce a healthier lifestyle?
ReplyDeleteOfcourse Environment is a huge factor, and we should try to incorporate our environment when we discuss HEALTH. Look at that, once the global warming starts showing its real face, we'll encounter many infections (viral or bacterial) that we've never seen before as the temperature will nourish many pathogens. I am real fan of saving the PLANET EARTH, and I just can't stand it when we are trying to deal with epidemics and how the environment is playing a huge role. NOW, e.g., the cholera epidemic was deadly and was taken care of, but it still exists in places like Bangladesh, and causes many early deaths. This is so largely due to the climate in Bangladesh in the Ganges River Basin. We can discuss that if you want with more details, and you guys will be amazed once you realize how our environment can alter our health (and perhaps in an Irreversible manner too)!
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