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Why are so many educated professionals having unprotected sex?

Jessenia Martinez

A survey of 2000 women revealed that seven out of ten women, ages 18 to 40, regularly engage in unprotected sex.  Furthermore, one in five women trust their partners – whether it’s someone they are in a monogamous relationship with or someone who is a more casual sexual partner – to not give them a Read More

Why can’t you lose weight? Breaking down the process needed to achieve a healthy lifestyle

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Making the decision to change up your lifestyle and become healthier can be a major change.  Common sense says that a person aiming to lose weight must burn more calories than are taken in but what happens when that doesn’t work? While any exercise will still render crucial health benefits like helping out the heart, Read More

The great equalizer: How fitness levels can help even out the academic playing field among children

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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

What you need to know about protein

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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

A get-fit plan that works for you

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Fit Latina Tips for the Week: For many, the start of summer also brings the desire to get healthier. Nothing is more important to your health than what you are putting into your body to fuel it. Finding a nutrition plan that sticks can be a challenge – especially since there is no cookie-cutter method Read More