Thursday, February 8, 2007
Obesity study (no self-reflection)
Opening the Daily Trojan today, I was struck by an article entitled "Obesity clinic targets Latinos." Most of the students in USC's MPH program have probably heard about this new intervention, as the department e-mailed MPH students about a paid internship available in this clinic. The lab's first study involves the Strength and Nutrition Outcome for Latino Adolescents (SANO-LA), which targets at-risk individuals to decrease added sugar and increase dietary fiber. The study features a nutritional (meets 1x/wk for nutritional lessons and exercises), combination (meets 2x/wk & in addition to the nutritional arm undergoes strength training exercises), and control (receives no treatment) group. After testing Latino adolescents, the same study will be conducted on black youths later this year. Eventually, researchers would like to conduct the study on Caucasian and Asian populations. With the obesity epidemic affecting more and more of the American population, this is the kind of study thatI believe offers hope for providing the kinds of insights necessary to cater health promotion intervention strategies to the particular needs of specific populations.
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The outcome so far is encouraging. The treatment has improved insulin sensitivity, which reduces the risk of achieving type two diabetes.
I am glad that the research has gotten more funding from Veronica Atkins. I think this is great start on diabetes prevention especially between Latino youth, which will be demonstrating 30% of United States populations by 2050. Hope to see the result of this research on other ethnicities in America!
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