CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - A new study says that children from Wyoming's poorest and least educated households are less likely to reach their first birthdays.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Commission to Build a Healthier America prepared the report and released it this week.
The study says that a third of Wyoming's children live in poverty or near poverty. Nearly all of these children live in households where no one has more than a high-school education.
The report says babies born to college graduates are more likely to live beyond infancy. These parents are more likely to make sure their children get healthy food and don't live sedentary lives.
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October 11, 2008
12:21 p.m.Report inappropriate content
Geniuses!! Give them more grant $$$! Who would have guessed that poor children are less healthy? WOW!
October 11, 2008
8:05 p.m.Report inappropriate content
Aliciala has it right! MORE MONEY!
I'd like to see demographics and numbers,
like # of whites, # of blacks, # of latino-
Mexican, # of Native American.
Kind of says something about education beyond
high school, huh?
Any thoughts about where national health
insurance will "come down" on this issue?
October 13, 2008
1:33 p.m.Report inappropriate content
You don't say??? I would really LOVE to know where these 'experts' get their 'knowledge.' By researching the "Book of Things Most Obvious?" Consider this...person 1 gets $X.XX each month, right? To feed their family. Well, $5 will buy two gallons of milk OR 5 liters of soda or TONS of Kool-Aid. For the price of a bag of fruit they can buy 3 or 4 bags of chips. Go figure. How are people suppose to afford to eat more healthy when the sugary/fatty snack foods are a lot cheaper?