Dietary Quality among Latinos: Is Acculturation Making Us Sick?

Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?

Unnatural Causes, a documentary series scheduled for release this fall, will present for the first time on American television an investigation of the sources of our huge and alarming socioeconomic and racial disparities in health. The seven-part, 4-hour documentary series will be available on DVD from California Newsreel (www.newsreel. org) and will be broadcast in the United States by Public ...

Dietary Acculturation among Filipino Americans

Acculturation, the subsequent changes that occur in one culture after continuous first hand contact with another culture, impacts the dietary habits and health risks of individuals. This study examines the acculturation, dietary habits and anthropometric measurements in a sample of 210 first generation Filipino American immigrants in New Jersey (NJ). Acculturation was measured using the Short A...

Knowing Which Foods Are Making Us Sick

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Are health economics making us sick?

What's Out There Making Us Sick?

Throughout the continuum of medical and scientific history, repeated evidence has confirmed that the main etiological determinants of disease are nutritional deficiency, toxicant exposures, genetic predisposition, infectious agents, and psychological dysfunction. Contemporary conventional medicine generally operates within a genetic predestination paradigm, attributing most chronic and degenera...