October Health NewsLetter,October Health NewsLetter,October Health NewsLetter,October Health NewsLetter
© Larshal Veronica Vance
The article about teenager girls and exercise was featured in USA Today on October 2. According to the article “many girls, especially African American and Hispanic teens are not physical active during their teen years.” (Hellmich, 10D)
Some of the reason why ranges from family reasons (they have to help the family so they don’t have to time) to beauty reasons (they don’t want to sweat). I found it fascinating because I can remember myself saying that I am not going to gym because I was not going to get all sweaty and I have to go the class afterwards. I see that the reasoning has not changed over the years.
The article also had a side article entitled “Girls activity trails off.” It gave to results of a study where they followed the physical activity of 1,213 black girls and 1,166 white girls and these were their findings:
At ages 9 or 10, most girls reported that they were doing some physical activity outside school
By ages 16 and 17, 56% of black girls and 31% of white girls did no regular physical activity in their spare time.
By ages 18 and 19, 70% of black and 29% of whites reported doing no regular leisure physical activity.
The next article that I came across focuses on a disease that I did not know occurs twice as much which black babies, SIDS.
This article that was in the Philadelphia Inquirer on October 7 talks about a study that looked at 260 infants that died between 1993 and 1996 in Chicago. According to the article this is what the researchers found:
“Most of the babies who had been placed on their stomach, 58 percent among blacks and 55 percent among all other ethnic groups. In the control group 43 percent of the black infants slept on their stomachs, compared to 12 percent of all other ethnicities.” (Surendran, 2002) That is important to know especially if you have or is about to have a baby.
I did not find many health articles this month. Maybe next month I will find more.
Later
Source
Hellmich, Nanci. “Physical fitness isn’t always a kick for teenage girls.” USA Today 2 October 2002: 10D
Surendran, Aparna. “Black babies more likely to sleep prone, study say.” Philadelphia Inquirer 7 October 2002: A4
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