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UCLA public health researchers get $20M grant to promote health and fitness, fight obesity
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Contact: Sarah Anderson sanderson@ph.ucla.edu 310-267-0440 University of California - Los Angeles
Researchers at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have been awarded a $20 million federal grant to further their innovative efforts to curb obesity, a global pandemic that has reached the level of a national crisis in the United States.
The UCLA project, rather than requiring busy, stressed individuals in low-resource neighborhoods to seek out physical activity and nutrient-rich foods, will engage them as "captive" audiences in settings they already frequent including schools, offices and churches making healthier options a default that can only be avoided with effort or by "opting out."
The five-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is intended to address health disparities among racial and ethnic groups across the country and is part of the agency's Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) initiative.
The UCLA project will be led by Dr. Antronette Yancey and Roshan Bastani, professors of health policy and management at the Fielding School and co-directors of the school's UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity. Other faculty members on the team include assistant professor Beth Glenn, professor Annette Maxwell and professor William J. McCarthy, all of the school's department of health policy and management.
For more than 20 years, UCLA has been recognized as a leader in promoting health among a diverse array of ethnic groups in a variety of settings, with programs that address critical health issues ranging from obesity and tobacco control to cancer screening and vaccinations. This work is conducted in partnership with several hundred community-based organizations, primarily in the Los Angeles region.
The new CDC funding enables the researchers to build on knowledge gained from their prior work and to expand the geographic scope of their efforts. They will concentrate on promoting healthy nutrition and physical activity in 30 to 40 medium- to large-sized cities throughout the U.S. Southeast, Midwest and Southwest, focusing on geographic hubs in those metropolitan areas where ethnic or racial minorities make up the majority of residents.
The program will be disseminated through national networks of community-based organizations, allowing the program to reach large segments of the African American, Asian American/Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino and American Indian populations in these urban centers.
The core of the program is Yancey's "Instant Recess," which she developed nearly 14 years ago to help prevent obesity and promote health and well-being. "Instant Recess" focuses on integrating short physical-activity breaks into non-discretionary time during non-P.E. time in school, "paid time" at work and Sunday church services, for example and establishing policies to ensure that appealing healthy options are accessible whenever food is served at meetings or gatherings, in cafeterias, or in vending machines.
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Kids' Health Is Focus at Monthly Fitness at the Fountain Event
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Published: Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 11:32 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 11:32 p.m.
WINTER HAVEN | Public Education Partnership has begun an effort to get students from the Polk County School District involved in a physical fitness event monthly at Winter Haven's downtown Central Park.
The event, called Fitness at the Fountain, began last month. Professional wellness instructors lead the exercises the first Saturday of the month. This Saturday, the event is from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., and Health Concepts is sponsoring the instruction.
"In Dr. John Ratey's recent book, Spark,' he describes how several school districts in the country used fitness programs to improve student academic scores," said Doug Lockwood, chairman of the Public Education Partnership.
PEP was created last year by the Winter Haven Chamber of Commerce's education steering committee with a mission of improving Winter Haven schools through advocacy, community engagement and collaborative partnerships.
Nat West, a PEP board member, said last month's inaugural event had good participation.
"In addition to exercises, there were games for kids and energizing music for everyone to get in the spirit," he said. "With several dieticians from the Cypress Dietetic Association and the Main Street Market right next to the exercisers in Winter Haven's Central Park, it was a day to learn about and practice wellness."
The idea for Fitness at the Fountain arose at a Polk Vision meeting when attendees decided to act upon a recent article reporting the Lakeland/Winter Haven area ranked seventh in the country for obesity, West said.
"I went to the local fitness centers and asked them to provide at least two athletic trainers to lead exercises in the park the first Saturday of every month so it could be the same day and location as our Main Street Market," West said.
The Main Street Market gives families access to fresh fruit and vegetables that correlates with living a healthy lifestyle, West said.
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2012 Montreal Consumer Choice Award Winners: Health & Fitness and Everyday Life Sectors
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MONTRAL, Oct. 4, 2012 /CNW/ - Consumer Choice Award is thrilled to announce the 2012 Top Service Providers in the Health & Fitness and Everyday Life sectors for the greater Montreal area. We would like to extend heartfelt congratulations to all this year's winners; your dedication to superior service has resonated with the people of the city of Montreal.
Each year across Canada, Consumer Choice Award gathers opinions, perceptions and expectations through the responses of thousands of consumers and businesses. All Winners have gone through a rigorous selection process conducted by a third party research firm to ensure only the most outstanding service providers are the winners within their respective industry. Find the list of Award-Winners below:
HEALTH & FITNESS
EVERYDAY LIFE
About Consumer Choice Award
Consumer Choice Award (CCA) was established in 1987 and is considered the most distinguished award for business excellence in Canada. This is the only organization in North America to recognize business excellence by conducting third party market research of both the consumer & business community with statistical accuracy. The research method determines all the service providers, ultimately selects the top ranked companies, and establishes the winner within each industry.
Consumer Choice Award conducts its market research strictly with Leger Marketing, the leading Canadian-owned market research firm and memberof the Worldwide Independent Network (WIN) of Market Researchers.
Consumer Choice Award lives in Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Hamilton, Montreal, London, Ottawa, Quebec City, Saskatoon, St. John's, Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg.
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Health & Fitness: Oct. 1
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Saturday
Run for the Fund: Join 1,000 participants in sprinting, jogging or walking through SeaWorld, 10522 Sea World Drive. Proceeds are donated to the SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund. 8 a.m. Oct. 6. http://www.seaworldparks.com/runforthefund. $45 through race day.
Action Kidney Day: Learn about kidney disease and how it affects the local community through free kidney health screenings, cooking demos, fitness, free food samples and the Kidney Action Day Walk. 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. http://www.kidneyfund.org. Free.
Jazzercise: Jazzercise Downtown is offering a free week and a three-month special through October. Lunchtime classes are held 12:15-1 p.m. Monday through Friday; 5:30-6:15 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Walk-ins welcome. 403 Ave. E (First Presbyterian Church. Call 210-265-7960 or jazzercisedowntown@gmail.com for details.
Upcoming
Reiki: Briana Brooks leads an open forum to help explore this holistic approach to health and fitness. Reiki treatments will be given free of charge. 7-8:30 p.m. Oct. 9. Brooks Community Classroom, 6323 Sovereign St., Suite 186. 210-365-1400.
Mental health: The St. George Episcopal Church Mental Health Family Support Group will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Oct. 10. The church is located at 6904 West Ave. Patients, family members, providers and friends are welcome. 210-342-4261.
Ongoing
Juicing support group: Adam McManus leads a weekly support group 7-8 p.m. Tuesdays at the Starbucks Legacy, 1723 N. Loop 1604 E, Suite 102. Contact McManus at talkradioadam@gmail.com or 210-373-7499. Free.
Food addicts: Are you having trouble controlling your eating? Regular meetings of Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous can be found at http://www.foodaddicts.org. 210-561-1809 or 210-310-4609.
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Using the 'Four Percent Rule' for Retirement Planning
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Financial planning is full of rules of thumb. One of the most famous is the "Four Percent Rule," which simply says that in retirement you can safely take out no more than 4 percent of the combined value of all of your financial assets each year with an expectation that your money will last 30 years or more, which is longer than the average length of time Americans spend in retirement.
However, the Four Percent Rule may be much more valuable as a guide rather than a steadfast rule.
A bit of history: The rule was originated by my fellow NAPFA member and fee-only financial advisor Bill Bengen. His conclusions, published in the October 1994 issue of the Journal of Financial Planning, were based upon a number of simulations of historical market behavior.
The result was a commonly used formula for managing retirement expectations, based on a number of assumptions about retiree needs and market performance. For example, at age 65 if you have a retirement portfolio of $1 million, and don't want to run out of money until you're 95, you can safely withdraw up to $40,000 a year.
But what if real life strays from these underlying assumptions? For example:
--What if you need more than 4 percent annually?
--What do you do if you live to be 100 or 110?
--What if you get really spectacular returns in your first few years of retirement so that by the time you're 95, you find you have a much bigger surplus than you expected? You may realize that you could have afforded a more comfortable lifestyle during retirement.
--What if, in the first few years of your retirement, the stock market drops by 45 percent?
Questions like these very quickly show the real value of the rule: it's a good place to start.
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US Authorities Eye Retirement Accounts as Possible Tax Dodges
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The U.S. Treasury Department is examining individual retirement accounts as vehicles for potential tax avoidance, a top tax official said in a letter to Democratic lawmakers released on Wednesday.
Democratic lawmakers have raised questions about the individual retirement account, or IRA, of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and asked the agencies to look into potential tax skirting by IRA holders. Romney has disclosed that his IRA contained up to $101 million, despite annual limits of much smaller amounts.
Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service "have been aware of this risk for a number of years and have been taking actions to curb abuses," Mark Mazur, Treasury assistant secretary for tax policy, said in the Sept. 19 letter to three Democratic House of Representatives members.
The IRS organized a team last year to improve compliance and enforcement of retirement account tax issues, Mazur said.
The IRA and Treasury are trying to estimate the number of IRA audits that involve asset valuation issues and gauge the size of any tax compliance problems, Mazur said.
IRAs are subject to contribution limits, which prompted some speculation at the time about how Romney's got so large, as shown in financial disclosure forms the former Massachusetts governor filed with federal election officials in August 2011.
"Gov. Romney has been eligible to contribute to retirement plans since he entered the workforce in 1975," a Romney campaign spokeswoman said in a statement on Wednesday. "Likewise, the investments in the IRA have appreciated sharply."
Aaron Albright, a spokesman for Democratic Representative George Miller, who received the Mazur letter, said: "Governor Romney's financial disclosure forms raised significant issues on whether this presents a problem of how people possibly misevaluate their IRAs to evade taxes."
House Democrats have called on the tax-writing committees in Congress to address IRA tax avoidance concerns.
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Retirement made easy: Here's the magic number
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As couples plan for retirement, there is a helpful checklist they ought to consult to make sure they have enough money to maintain their accustomed lifestyle after they quit working.
By Richard Satran, TODAY contributor
Its the impossible dream to many people: coming up with enough money to retire well. But Fidelity investments has come up with a new strategy to figure out if you are saving enough and not just making it a race to The Number.
The Number, of course, is the total you need to assure an adequate retirement. For some of us its like those medical charts telling you the optimal weight for your height. Great, but how do I get there?
For the savings-challenged, Fidelitys Number is still daunting: You will need to have saved eight times your final salary by age 67 if you want to maintain a lifestyle similar to the one you have had while working, the company's planners figure. But Fidelity says its easier to get to the peak if you think of it as a series of manageable milestones through life.
To reach the 8x altitude, Fidelity says, here are check-down markers for getting to the golden peak at the right time:
Seems easier than climbing to the 8x level all at once, right? Thats the idea. If you follow the rule of thumb, your savings along with Social Security will likely deliver 85 percent of your ending salary until you reach age 92.
These savings targets offer a rule of thumb to help employees get engaged in retirement planning by making it simpler and more achievable, said James M. MacDonald, president of workplace investing at Fidelity Investments.
Fidelity admits the rule of thumb might not work in all situations. But it offers a plan for millennials, gen-Xers and baby boomers increasingly skeptical that they will ever be able to retire.
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Take an Early Retirement Test Drive
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Retirement is a big transition that you need to prepare for. Retiring before age 60 has even more challenges. While there are many financial obstacles for early retirees, personal challenges could be even more difficult. Here are some ways you can ease the transition into early retirement:
Finance. Early retirement can be financially challenging. Leaving your job will reduce your income significantly, and your retirement benefits may not kick in right away. The earliest age that Social Security benefits will be available is 62, and leaving the work force early could negatively impact the size of your Social Security checks. You also generally can't access your individual retirement accounts (IRA) until you are 59 1/2 without incurring a 10 percent penalty. You need to take these ages into consideration and plan accordingly.
If you are thinking about early retirement, you probably have other sources of income. These sources can be from your pension, spousal income, rentals, investments in taxable accounts, CDs, or peer to peer lending investments. You need to add all these up to come up with a monthly income figure.
Income calculation. For example, if you want to retire at age 55, then you need to estimate your retirement income at various ages. You may want to delay retirement account withdrawals to avoid the early withdrawal penalty or postpone signing up for Social Security in order to get bigger payments later on in retirement. Here's an example of retirement income streams you might begin to tap at various ages:
55-60: Income from a pension, spouse's job, rentals, savings, or investment accounts
60-67: Add income from IRA and Roth IRA withdrawals
67-70: Add income from Social Security
70+: Add income from required minimum distributions from retirement accounts if applicable
The biggest challenge is funding retirement from 55 to 60 because of the reduction in income. Once you get passed this stage, you will have your IRA and Social Security to draw upon.
Expense calculation. The other side of cash flow is your monthly expenses. Some of your expenses will go down when you retire, but some other costs will increase. Job related expenses will drop, and you can estimate some of these.
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Personal, Economic, And Financial Concerns
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By DR. JESUS P. ESTANISLAO
MANILA, Philippines Resulting from the work we do, which we are duty-bound to do as well as we can, we gain access to economic and financial resources. We get rewarded for our work. From the fruits of our work, we acquire claims to material resources with which to sustain our life and move forward towards prosperity. Indeed, the economic and financial perspectives of our personal life are shaped mainly by the work we do.
The link between work and its economic and financial consequences underscores our duty to be productive. We do not go about our work irresponsibly. Rather, we work with productive results in view. We deliver results. We add value. Before we ever ask, what is in it for me, we should first ask, what contribution am I making? What positive difference am I bringing to the table through the work I do? Indeed, what is my added value?
The answer we give to the question about the value we add is critical for our personal self-worth as well as for the economic worth we are entitled to, arising from the work we do.
Our sense of self-worth comes, in part, from an appreciation of our productivity. At any time, our productivity is at a given level, taking into account a whole set of factors and circumstances that help define the results we actually deliver, e.g., our training and motivation, the tools and equipment we have at hand, and the organizational infrastructure that supports our work. It is also clear that as we strive to improve and perfect ourselves through our work, our productivity should continuously be rising. It should always be going higher; and over time, we progress towards much higher levels. Sometimes, our productivity takes a leap. It may on occasion jump, unrestrained by a few bounds.
Our level of productivity or the standard of efficiency and effectiveness we achieve at any given time helps determine our personal worth. It links with our economic and financial worth: Our pay is closely tied up with our level of performance at any given time. Over time, pay should move up progressively with performance. This is how, in broad terms, we should make progress in economic and financial terms.
It is for this reason that in our work we should always be open to training, new learning, a higher level of efficiency and effectiveness arising from innovation and the application of new knowledge and technology. Since we have to do our work well, we seek to do it with the use of science properly applied to our actual circumstances. Most of the technology we adopt we simply get from elsewhere, e.g., off the shelf. But at least a portion of the technology we use may have to be home-grown: We need to do a lot of creative, innovative work in tweaking readily available technology so it is duly fitted to the proper requirements and specific demands of the work we carry out.
We can innovate and adapt new technology to our own work circumstances, only if we make continuing investments; and investments are possible only if we observe the practice of setting aside some savings. We just do not spend everything we earn; our income should generally be higher than our expenses. It is imperative for us to save resources, i.e., both time and money, for training and re-tooling. We are duty-bound, therefore, to bring our operations to a productive and efficient level where we can set aside some savings for prudent and smart deployment in investments on improved processes and newer, significantly more efficient technology.
The old Pauline dictum still holds: we work, and so we eat. We should also work very well, so in addition to eating (and consuming), we can save as well, and thereby invest for sustaining growth and development.
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