Postpartum Nutritional Status of Filipino Women - Adair - 1992 () Citation Context ...in the first 6 months postpartum, and about half were still breast-feeding at 12 months postpartum.sIn other work, we have shown significant weight loss among lactating women during this time period (=-=...
In the country, marriage is a sacred union of man and women after a period of courtship and engagement. It is a sacrament between two people who love each others. For many Filipinos, the eternal quality of dedication to God pervades a truly sacred marriage. A sacred marriage is a covenant...
Jiro1*, Michael Sigua2, Migel Dio1, Lauren Hennein3 and Jennifer Cocohoba4 Abstract Background The greater San Francisco metropolitan bay area is home to 270,000 Filipino immigrants and the sec- ond largest Filipino-American population in the United ...
José Corazón de Jesús (November 22, 1896 – May 26, 1932), also known by his pen name Huseng Batute, was a Filipino poet who used Tagalog poetry to express the Filipinos' desire for independence during the American occupation of the Philippines, a period that lasted from 1901 to 1946...
It was during assessments with our community collaborators, the Philippine Women Centre, following the 2009 production of the play in Vancouver, that we were told that some of their members were motivated by the play to tell their stories differently to family members in the Philippines, and to...
It was also an event 14 years in the making. Without the heroic efforts of Church people, journalists, writers, teachers, students, artists and many other sectors to provide the citizenry from day one of martial rule, the information that finally led millions of men, women and even entire ...
A total of 45 Filipino American adults were enrolled and randomized. Mean age was 58 (SD 10) years, 62% (28/45) were women, and mean BMI was 30.1 (SD 4.6). Participant retention and study completion were 100%, with both the intervention and waitlist group achieving near-perfect attend...
American takeover . Although there were film showings during the last years of the Spanish period, it was not until the arrival of the Americans that actual local production began in earnest . In its crude beginnings the Philippine cinema was not produced by Filipinos, but rather by Americans...
Previous studies have shown that Filipino-Americans have similar CRC survival as that of non-Hispanic white women [5,6], and this could be attributed to the high level of health care access among Filipino-Americans. They are the second largest Asian-American ethnic group and among the most ...
whose predilection for Filipiniana (traditional women’s dress) also saw the fashions go out of style once they were exiled from the country. “After that, I feel like everyone stopped wearing barongs for a while, so it stopped evolving — what remained ...