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Lately, Latinos are the minority in conversations about local and sustainable food, environmental stewardship, and naturally healthy lifestyles. I’ve read arguments that “being green” is traditionally part of Hispanic cultures – our abuelitos were re-using containers before it was cool, and many of our families came from ranchos where growing food was a necessity. Read More
Diet Vs. Exercise, a recent article posted in the Well Blog of the New York Times explains how recent studies demonstrate that more exercise does not equal less body fat and that diet plays a bigger role in weight management than most people are willing to believe. Diet and exercise are like pen and Read More
As summer winds to a close and the school-year approaches, with it goes a time of easy activity. Maintaining an active lifestyle into the fall is extremely important. Exercise has countless health benefits for adults, and even more for children. New studies have indicated and continued to back older research that fitter children are not Read More
It’s not easy being a parent but worrying about your child’s future health shouldn’t be an additional source of stress. Teaching your child to make healthy food choices can be simple. Simply follow these simple suggestions and get your child on the path toward healthy adulthood. Remember, your children will probably resist what you are Read More
There’s a phrase that goes “You are what you eat.” When it comes to proteins, this is absolutely true. Next to water, it is the most present element in the human body. Besides the obvious presence in muscles and the rebuilding of tissue, hair, nails, enzymes and hormones are all made of protein. Plus, different Read More
We have all been there, after the initial excitement wears off and your fitness progress slows down, losing weight and achieving your health goals can feel like an uphill, never-ending hike. Your body is intelligent and thus it adapts to the new exercise status quo by speeding up your metabolism and increasing your caloric and Read More
F-A-T. Face it – when you aren’t feeling good and want to lose weight, you don’t even want to say the word out loud. Fat has become one of the scariest words in the English language. Shunned and obsessed over, any diet newbies will automatically seek to eliminate this seemingly evil source of weight gain Read More
A recent study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics found that women who eat out for lunch lose less weight than women who bring lunch to work or stay home for lunch. Decreasing the meals you eat outside of your home is the first step toward giving your weight loss progress Read More
I admit to this vanity: I love my café con leche skin. In the summer, after some time at the ocean, I spend a little extra time primping and admiring the tint of more café and less leche that come with some time spent sun worshipping. But I do so with not a small trace Read More
Atkins. South Beach. Zone. Low-carb mania is everywhere and has been for quite a few years. While it’s true that when eaten in excess, carbohydrates can lead to weight gain, the problem lies in the fact that many people are too uninformed or misinformed to actually utilize a lower-carb diet in a healthy manner. This Read More