Latina & Overweight: What’s Your Risk for High Blood Pressure?
You get married and the pounds suddenly start piling on. While you are pregnant, you put on more than the recommended weight. After the baby, it is hard to shed the extra padding. Whether you learn to love your body as it is or struggle in a permanent battle to slim down, it is not [...]
Kids With Food Allergies? Try These Tasty Substitutes!
It seems like every other kid out there has food allergies; and with new food products popping up in the grocery store every week, the questions about food allergies continue to grow. Between 1997 and 2007 the food-allergy rate rose 18%! So maybe it’s you, your spouse, your child, or a friend or family member [...]
5 Power Salads That Rule!
Editor’s Note: The following article is one in a series of pieces inspired by spring being a time to take charge of our health. They all include tips for being fit, eating right and feeling healthy, brought to you by Colgate. Let’s ToneUP together! Salad doesn’t have to be looked upon as a food you [...]
Steak Tostadas Your Kids Will Love
If the tweens had it their way, taco night would be every night. The same ground beef tacos with all of the toppings over and over again. I love to cook and use it as my creative outlet. But just like no artist creates the same painting more than once, I rarely create [...]
Put Down the Celery Now! It’s No Diet Day!
I was traveling for much of the month of April, first to Miami for Hispanicize ’13 social media conference and second, a week long trip on the Pacific Ocean with Kathy Cano-Murillo on the Crafty Chica cruise. I had the time of my life, of course, but along the way I indulged in way too [...]
Aphrodisiac Foods: Hard Fact or Soft Science?
We’ve all heard the cliché about oysters being an aphrodisiac, the kind of food that puts both men and women in the mood for a little sumthin-sumthin. But is it really true? And what about chocolate, bananas and honey? Are they considered aphrodisiacs just because they taste good and have sensual connotations, or is there [...]
Comfort Foods That Make Us Feel Worse!
They’re called comfort foods for a reason, right? That bag of chips, bowl (or carton) of ice cream or extra slice of pizza can seem like our only friends in the world when we’re stressed, sad or otherwise at the end of our rope. But the problem is, these so-called comfort foods usually make us [...]
Weight-Loss Secrets of Tragic Heroines
Sure, most of us would like to lose a little weight, but why just diet, when you can diet with drama? Take a cue from some of literature and history’s most tragic heroines, who wasted away in some of the most heartbreaking and terrible ways, and often over a romance gone wrong. But at least [...]
7 Happy Foods to Elevate Your Mood
Editor’s Note: The following article is one in a series of pieces inspired by the onset of spring and April being Stress Awareness month, brought to you by Colgate. Smile up! Can eating make you happy? We’re not talking about the temporary comfort of curling up on the couch with a half-gallon of ice cream [...]
French Kids Eat Everything: Our Kids Can Too!
From my years living in France, and being married to a Frenchman, I know a few things about the French and their love of food. They love fresh fruits and vegetables purchased at the marchées. They like food in season. They enjoy long meals and wine, and the whole country is pretty set on a [...]
