Asian Americans as a whole are half as likely as non-Hispanic whites to die from heart disease. However, Native Hawaiians are 40 percent more likely to suffer from heart disease than whites.
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Grouping all Asians together could be bad for their health
Posted on 06 May 2010.
Posted in Health, Vol 29 No 19 | 5/8-5/142 Comments
What Asian Pacific Americans need to know about diabetes
Posted on 29 April 2010.
Julie Cheng began ice skating at age 7.
After skating competitively for three years, she took a yearlong break from the sport at age 10. She wasn’t sidelined due to injury. She was out for health reasons.
Posted in Health, Vol 29 No 18 | 5/1-5/72 Comments
Asian American women strive toward feeling happy with life and body
Posted on 05 February 2010.
By James Tabafunda NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Body image — or the perception of how one’s body looks — gets reassessed every January. In 2010, losing weight returns as one of the most popular New Year’s resolutions. Forty-three percent of Asian American women said they considered themselves overweight. This statistic is based on a 1997 survey, [...]
Posted in Health, Lifestyle, Vol 29 No 6 | 2/6-2/124 Comments
Cindy Chen — a voice for counseling in the Asian community
Posted on 21 January 2010.
In her cozy office in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, Dr. Cindy Chen has shared countless conversations with clients. She is willing to talk about many issues in life — interpersonal relationships, gambling addiction, low self-esteem — as long as clients are willing to open up.
Posted in Health, Vol 29 No 4 | 1/23-1/291 Comment
The top 5 stories you’ve heard way too much about and 5 stories that went under the radar
Posted on 30 December 2009.
Fame, fortune, and scandal were the driving forces behind the endless news coverage of Jackson. Readership of Jackson news shot up when a Los Angeles coroner ruled the singer’s death a homicide after lethal levels of the anesthetic propofol, combined with two other sedatives, were found in his system.
Posted in Features, Features, Food, Health, January 2010, Vol 29 No 1 | 1/2-1/81 Comment
Sun-sational Vitamin D: D-fense against disease
Posted on 30 July 2009.
More than 130 million Americans suffer from at least one chronic disease. We spend $1.5 trillion dollars a year to manage chronic diseases, but it still causes 70 percent of all deaths in the United States.
Posted in Health, Lifestyle, Vol 28 No 32 | 8/1 - 8/70 Comments
Local nonprofits await stimulus funds
Posted on 04 April 2009.
With President Barack Obama’s recent economic stimulus package on its way to the States, many local agencies are eagerly awaiting its
Posted in Community News, Health, Vol 28 No 15 | 4/4 - 4/100 Comments
1998: Give yourself the gift of good health
Posted on 11 December 2008.
Strangely, I had never thought about how lucky I was to be alive until I was fighting for my life a month ago. It was a terrifying experience. This kind of thing tends to hit you without warning, just when you least expect it. It seems to happen when life is smooth and sweet.
Posted in Health, Vol 27 No 51 | 12/13-12/190 Comments
