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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Exercise and healthy school
lunch choices cut diabetes risk
Healthier cafeteria
choices, longer and more
intense periods of physical
activity and a robust in-school
education program can lower
the risk of obesity and other
risk factors for acquiring type
2 diabetes, according to a new
study, HEALTHY.
The findings are pub-
lished online in the New Eng-
land Journal of Medicine.
Oregon Health & Sci-
ence University (OHSU) in
Portland is one of eight aca-
demic medical centers nation-
wide chosen to participate in
the study. It is funded by the
National Institute of Diabetes
and Digestive & Kidney Dis-
eases, a branch of the Na-
tional Institutes of Health, and
the American Diabetes Asso-
ciation.
Because type 2 diabetes
disproportionately affects
minorities and low-income
people, the study was con-
ducted in schools with a high
enrollment of minority chil-
dren, 54 percent Hispanic and
18 percent Black, and youth
from low-income families.
“This is the first study to
show you can reduce obesity
and risks for type 2 diabetes
in kids and do it in schools
with at-risk, high ethnic-
minority populations,” said
Dr. Linn Goldberg, the
HEALTHY principal investi-
gator at OHSU, and professor
and head of the Division of
Health Promotion and Sports
Medicine in the OHSU
School of Medicine.
“This study emphasizes
the fact that schools can have
a tremendous positive effect
on a child’s health.”
The study tracked 4,603
students in 42 middle schools
nationwide from the begin-
ning of sixth through the
completion of eighth grade.
Half the schools were ran-
domly assigned to receive an
“intervention” comprising
healthier food choices, longer
gym classes, classroom be-
havioral education and other
schoolwide activities that
encourage healthy behaviors.
T h e “c o mp a r i s on ”
schools received no specific
intervention, but did receive
funds to use at their discre-
tion. Comparison schools
continued to provide food
choices and physical educa-
tion activities based on their
own choice.
All parents received writ-
ten feedback about student
health screening results with
notification from an OHSU
endocrinologist and referral
to a physician if student re-
sults were high risk.
At the beginning of the
study, many sixth-grade stu-
dents at both the intervention
and comparison schools were
at high risk for diabetes.
Nearly half were overweight
or obese, 16 percent had ele-
vated fasting blood glucose
levels, and nearly 7 percent
had elevated fasting insulin
levels, all risk factors for de-
veloping type 2 diabetes.
At the end of the study,
the researchers found the now
eighth-grade students in inter-
vention schools who were
overweight or obese in the
sixth grade had 21 percent
lower odds of being obese
compared with students in
comparison schools. Students
at intervention schools also
had lower average levels of
fasting insulin and smaller
waist circumference.
Surprisingly, the re-
searchers also found that the
number of overweight and
obese students had declined
in the intervention and the
comparison schools. And, the
study groups did not differ in
mean glucose levels or the
percentage of students with
elevated fasting glucose in the
overweight category.
“Although more research
is needed to better understand
why all schools showed im-
provement, possible explana-
tions were that comparison
schools’ parents received
information about their
child’s risk and may have
made healthy changes, and
comparison schools volun-
teering to be in the study did
so out of concern for the
health of their student body,
and thus may have made sub-
sequent changes in the school
environment,” explained
Goldberg.
During the course of the
three-year study, intervention
schools provided students
with low-fat, high-fiber foods
and more fruits and vegeta-
bles, with an emphasis on
water, low-fat milk and
drinks with no added sugar.
Intervention school stu-
dents also participated in
longer, more intense periods
of physical activity, defined
as achieving a heart rate of at
least 130 beats per minute
with a target of 150 minutes
or more of such activity per
10 days.
And, they were involved
in classroom activities that
were highly interactive in
small learning groups, along
with awareness campaigns
that promoted long-term
healthy behaviors.
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Protesters (from left) Ernie Brown, Teresa Hicks, Amie Brown and others demonstrated out-
side of the Grants Pass office of the Dept. of Human Services on Friday afternoon, July 16.
Organizers said that the protest drew around 15 people at its peak, and was aimed at draw-
ing attention to the state agency’s Child Protective Services division. A second protest has
been scheduled for Aug. 6 from 3 to 5:30 p.m., on 7th Street in downtown Grants Pass.
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Audit finds Oregon can improve
child-support collection task
A new state audit said that
Oregon could apply successful
strategies of other states to
increase child-support collec-
tions.
Among the 50 states, Ore-
gon ranks about average ac-
cording to federal standards
that measure ways of collect-
ing payments and establishing
paternity. The Oregon Dept. of
Justice and district attorneys
share child-support collection
responsibilities.
The report issued by the
Secretary of State’s Audits Divi-
sion made several recommenda-
tions, including more ambitious
goal-setting for its program and
staff, tracking performance data,
and taking constructive action to
boost results.
“It’s important that we
hold parents responsible for
child support payments,” said
Secretary of State Kate Brown.
“Oregon can learn from the
successful strategies in other
states. Making sure there are
timely payments can keep chil-
dren out of poverty and off
public assistance.”
State auditors analyzed
the practices of top-performing
states to identify strategies that
would work in Oregon. For
example, Pennsylvania was the
most successful, collecting 79
percent of child support pay-
ments due in 2008, while Ore-
gon collected 62 percent.
Matching Pennsylvania’s
collection rate would mean
$70 million more in child sup-
port payments.
“Oregon can apply the
same methods used in Penn-
sylvania and other states to
become one of the best in the
country,” said Audits Director
Gary Blackmer. The audit
noted that variances in other
states, such as economic con-
ditions and legal authority,
also affect collection rates.
The Oregon Dept. of Jus-
tice responded to the audit
recommendations positively
and proposed a number of ac-
tions that will be taken to im-
prove collection efforts,
Brown stated.
“We appreciate the rec-
ommendations provided, and
plan to seek legislative ap-
proval for the tools we
need to increase child support
collection in Oregon,” said
Deputy Attorney Gen-
eral Mary Williams.
The full audit can be seen
at www.sos.state.or.us/audits.
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