Last year, Mexico's lawmakers approved a new tax on junk food as part of the government's campaign to fightobesity. The move came a little over a day after legislators agreed to tax soft drinks. Mexicans drink an average of 163 liters (43 gallons) of soft drinks annually, also among ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico on Saturday reported the first confirmed case of monkeypox in the country, according to deputy health secretary Hugo Lopez-Gatell. The patient was a 50-year-old permanent resident of New York who is being treated in Mexico City, Lopez-Gatell said on Twitter...
The city government said it was setting up shelters for them and is handing out "COVID-19 emergency support" cards with 1,000 pesos - around $42 - for food and medicine. "Nobody can live off 1,000 pesos," said Rojano. Still, sex workers said any help was...
Mexico has been able to implement these measuresdespite overwhelming food industry opposition. How? I credit the outstanding advocacy work of theMexico’s National Institute of Public Healthand the consumer coalition,Alianza por la Salud Alimentaria. ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — As more states propose or approve bans on junk food sales to minors, Mexico is seeing the tide turn against high-calorie snacks that experts say have given the country one of the highest rates of childhood obesity and an unusually you
Household food insecurity (HFI) has been linked to poorer cardiometabolic health and reduced health care access but few studies have examined these issues in the large Mexican immigrant population living on the U.S.-Mexico border. This exploratory study examined the association of HFI with ...
Likewise, many of the TMFB that have been recorded are used as medicine to prevent diarrhea, reduce infections, constipation, and, in general, to improve health. These beverages are currently part of daily life food, refreshing beverages during the working hours, and part of local ceremonies. ...
Briefly, this is a central government system that registers all confirmed COVID-19 cases from public and private healthcare units in the country. During the study period, in public healthcare units, a confirmatory diagnostic test (RT-PCR and antigen test) was only applied to patients who ...
Muxes also encounter physical violence and discrimination in education and in the workplace, as well as legal and public health barriers. But though programs and initiatives in recent years have sought to protect muxe rights and make the community safer, there is work to be done. “There are...
The U.N. Children's Fund considers childhood obesity to be ahealth emergencyin Mexico, saying the country's children have the highest consumption of junk food and many get 40% of their total caloric intake from it. A Mexican government health survey found that 75% of Mexican children were ...