5 Fitness Myths Busted
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. [...]
Foods to Help Your Baby Get a Good Night’s Sleep
Editor’s Note: The following article is one in a series of pieces inspired by a celebration of Latino heritage and smart nutrition, brought to you by Beech-Nut/Goya. Getting your kids to sleep through the night is no easy task. This is coming from a mother of three with the youngest being 15 months old. The [...]
Help Kids Play it Safe in the Summer Heat
Believe it or not, despite deadly tornados, hurricanes and floods, heat is still the number one cause of weather-related deaths in the US, resulting in hundreds of fatalities every year and even more hospitalizations. For children, especially young athletes, combining intense summer heat and humidity with excessive exercise makes even the healthiest of kids vulnerable [...]
20 Latino Fruits You & Your Baby Should Try
Editor’s Note: The following article is one in a series of pieces inspired by a celebration of Latino heritage and smart nutrition, brought to you by Beech-Nut/Goya. When preparing wholesome, delicious foods for our families, we sometimes forget that the juicy, nutritious fruits we love are actually part of our Latino heritage. Traditional Hispanic cuisine [...]
Traditional Latino Flavors in New Baby Food? They Exist!
Editor’s Note: The following article is one in a series of pieces inspired by a celebration of Latino heritage and smart nutrition, brought to you by Beech-Nut/Goya. As philosophies around feeding babies evolve, experts are moving away from the recommendations of only plain, bland foods for infants. As it turns out, a vast array of [...]
It’s Feeding Time! The Perfect Meal Schedule for Your Infant
Editor’s Note: The following article is one in a series of pieces inspired by a celebration of Latino heritage and smart nutrition, brought to you by Beech-Nut/Goya. When you get down to the basics, caring for an infant boils down to four fundamental needs—food, sleep, play and love. The hard part comes in knowing when, [...]
Garden & Plant Safety For Your Baby
As the weather warms, I’m anxious to plant some annuals outside my front door and nurture my little garden out back. With small children, I tend to cling to the little pleasures like bright, pretty colors guiding my steps to the door, and my girls love to examine the blooms and the nature around us. [...]
Imagining a Smoke-Free World
Cigarettes seduced me slowly. At first, they helped me to lose weight, keeping my mouth busy between meals. Then I began to depend on them when I was anxious, angry, sad, and in social situations. Cigarettes became my constant companion, in sickness and in health. May 31 is the WHO’s World No Tobacco Day, and [...]
Your Teenager is Pregnant—What Now?
According to statistics, almost one million teenage girls become mothers every year. And DoSomething.org reports that in 2008, “the teen pregnancy rate among African-American and Hispanic teen girls, age 15 to 19, was over two and a half times higher than the teen pregnancy rate among white teen girls of the same age group.” If [...]
