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Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging
Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging reaches audience of over 23 millions from television, radio, print, and online media coverage [Download the report]
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Healthy Aging is really about healthy living. It offers the most comprehensive review of the currently available research on the lifetime influences of environmental factors on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, their relation to a range of other chronic diseases the report terms the "Western disease cluster" - diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome - and how these are all being driven by dramatic alterations over the past 50 to 100 years in the U.S. food supply, an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, and exposure to toxic chemicals. Positive changes to these drivers will help the health of people and the planet.
Healthy Aging report's outreach and significance broaden
Since its release on NBC's Today Show, Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging, 3rd in a series of important GBPSR reports on environmental health, has established considerable significance through broad outreach.
Upcoming Presentations/Exhibits:
Recent Presentations/Exhibits:
- Second Annual Northwest Environmental Health Conference - March 5, 2010, Portland, OR - Keynote Address given by Ted Schettler MD MPH
- Grand Rounds, Metrowest Medical Center, March 1st, 2010, 12:00 -1:00 PM - Natick, MA - Dr. Jill Stein. The Grand Rounds event was very well received and attended, with 55 people signing in, among which were doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians assistants, therapists, and administrators.
- Massachusetts Health and Social Services Consortium (HESSCO) Annual Meeting, Dec 2nd, 2009, 9:30 AM - HESSCO Elders Services - Raffael’s Banquet Facility, Walpole, MA.
- American Public Health Association 137th Annual Meeting and Expo, November 9 in Philadelphia, PA. Gerontological health section symposium “Environment and Aging: Building Lifelong Communities” – presented by Drs. Jill Stein, Peter Whitehouse, and Danny George. Read more about the presentations. View details of the session online.
- Centers for Disease Control National Environmental Public Health Conference "Healthy People in a Healthy Environment" October 26 in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Jill Stein's presentation focused on Chronic Disease and Climate Change: Common Drivers, Common Solutions; Dr. Ted Schettler presented on the main findings of Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging.
http://www.team-psa.com/2009nephc/main.asp
- Greater Boston PSR exhibited the Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging report at the Centers for Disease Control conference "Promoting Environmental and Policy Change to Support Healthy Aging" September 15-16 in Chapel Hill, NC. We distributed a great many copies to participants (and, in a prior mailing, to many of the Speakers). We are thankful to the CDC for including the entire report on the CD of the event. Learn more about the conference.
Report Release:
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Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging was released nationwide October 23, 2008 on NBC's Today Show in a segment with chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman. Dr. Snyderman discussed the report's key finding with host Meredith Vieira. The Today Show is seen by 5 million viewers. |
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Coverage of particular note:
Since its release, the report has been featured in over 65 national and regional stories, and reached an audience of over 23 millions from television, radio, print, and online media coverage.
- August 31, 2009 - The AARP South Carolina State Office added a link on their web page to the agehealty web page.
- August, 2009 - The EPA Aging Initiative has posted a link to Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging in the Resources section of their web site: http://www.epa.gov/aging/resources/ngo.htm#pfsr. The Initiative site provides a wealth of information about the Agency's efforts to protect the environmental health of older persons.
- Wednesday, August 3, 2009 - Dr. Jill Stein participated in a panel discussion on Equal Time Radio, Montpelier, VT, hosted by Carl Etnier. The discussion, titled "Doctors Speak Out on Health Care During Energy Scarcity," focused on exploring energy, food, and the local economy at the end of the age of oil.
- Thursday, May 7, 2009: The Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) hosted an important call on metabolic syndrome [a cluster of conditions occurring together that elevate a person’s risk of developing certain chronic diseases such heart disease, stroke and diabetes and its intersection with what is being called the Western Disease Cluster]. Dr. Jill Stein was one of the featured speakers. See the details and then listen to the call (MP3 audio format).
- AARP Prime Time Radio interview with Drs. Jill Stein and Ted Schettler (which first aired on May 5, 2009)
- A full page in the April 2009 edition of Dr. Andrew Weil's Self Healing newsletter, circ. 150,000 in print (Dr. Weil is a leading integrative medicine expert)
- GBPSR's Healthy Aging report op-ed appeared March 25, 2009 on the front page of the "Living" section of the Huffington Post ( View the posting)
- Dr. Jill's Stein's half hour radio interview on KEXP public radio Seattle's Sustainability Segment of "Mind Over Matters," which aired on Saturday, March 21 - 90.3 FM in Seattle and on the web at http://www.kexp.org/
(Listen to Dr. Stein's interview in MP3 format)
- A review in Rachel's Democracy & Health News #1000, February 26, 2009, where the report was termed "stunning." (see the review in PDF format)
- Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 117, Number 1, Jan. 2009
- USA Today's "A Better Life," Jan. 12, 2009, which generates over 9.5 million page views per month
- Health Affairs, December 31, 2008, a trade/policy publication that focuses on healthcare policy and research with a readership of about 30,000 and more online (1.3 million page views per month)
- The EPA Aging Initiative List Serve, December 2008, (which goes out to over 4000 EPA or federal agency professionals, press, academics, congressional staff, aging experts, and persons involved in the aging and public health field)
- Articles on prominent Web sites that address aging and health issues, such as iParenting.com (Dec. 1, 2008) and The Tangled Neuron (Nov. 23, 2008)
- The Washington Post News Service, Nov. 11, 2008, in an article that was picked up by seven top regional daily newspapers, including The San Diego Union-Tribune, which has a print circulation of 270,000
- Yahoo! Health, Oct. 31, 2008, which receives over 8 million page views per month
The report and chapters have been downloaded over 5000 times from our web site as well as agehealthy.org and we are receiving regular requests for print copies.
