Latina Moms | Daughters
Are you constantly feeling frustrated at not meeting your fitness goals? Maybe that’s because your goals are based on unrealistic or flat-out false ideas about fitness and exercise. In other words, you’re chasing after fitness myths. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than a third of Americans are overweight. [...]
Who didn’t have Sea Monkeys as a child? That’s exactly what I knew them as, even as a child in Argentina, where the Spanish translation would have been monos marinos. They are tiny tadpole-like creatures. Slightly hairy with a long thin spine, and two round black eyes that seem to be popping out of their [...]
Myth: You lose at least 45% of your body heat through your head, so keep it covered in cold weather. This is a very popular myth that I strongly believed and shared with others over the years. But a military study testing the loss of body heat in soldiers exposed to Arctic temperatures told a [...]
Myth: Stay warm and dry, or you’ll catch a cold. How many times did your mother or abuela urge you to don a hat, wear a heavier coat, or sleep with an extra blanket, all so that you wouldn’t catch a draft and therefore catch cold. It’s an old wives’ tale that’s been around—well, as [...]
When I was a kid, I must have been told a thousand times that I needed to wait at least 30 minutes after eating before I could go swimming. It was, without fail, 30 minutes of pure torture. Little did I know that the wait was totally unnecessary. Myth: Swimming right after eating disrupts the [...]
Myth: It’s a common belief that extreme sweating will help you get rid of toxins faster, and therefore lose weight faster. The rationale is that because a high percentage (75%) of our body weight is water, losing some of that weight through sweating will help dieters slim down. It will, but the results are superficial [...]
I didn’t know serious allergies until I moved to Florida. The doctor said to me then, “you have allergies, welcome to Florida!” Co-workers said that the only cure for seasonal allergies was to eat local honey, harvested not more than 100 miles from where you live. Myth: Because people think pollen is the major cause of [...]
Myth: Eating Turkey Makes You Sleepy Bust: The first time I heard this was from a friend of mine who didn’t want to have a turkey sandwich for lunch because “it would make her very sleepy and tired”. I had no idea what she was talking about back then, as I couldn’t remember an instance [...]
If you are struggling to lose weight and know firsthand the agony of yo-yo dieting, you are not alone. Millions of women, whether they’re overweight, truly obese or just seeking to drop a few pounds, find themselves on a no-win cycle of restrictive dieting, without the rewards of permanent weight loss. Why is that? The [...]
I understand picky eaters. I am one of them. I wasn’t raised to be a picky eater; I was just born that way. Growing up, my whims were almost never indulged. My mother was very severe, and everything had a very strict schedule, including mealtime. If we didn’t eat when we were supposed to eat, [...]
