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Stubborn myths about fat

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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

How to dine out without compromising your health

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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

Three proven ways to improve your health without leaving home

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Of the top 10 states with the highest number of Latinos, the percentage of obese Latino adults falls between 24 and 32 percent. While you may be tempted to rent a U-haul and drag your abuelita, mami, papi and the tios to your local fitness studio, let’s face it, that plan may not work. Language Read More