Latina Moms | Daughters
Inspired by Diane de Anda’s bilingual picture book A Day Without Sugar/Un día sin azúcar, about an aunt who leads a group of kids on a hunt for “hidden sugars,” its publisher, Arte Público Press, has launched a new initiative challenging children across the country to limit their sugar intake by participating in the A [...]
ABOUT THE BOOK Tia Sofia’s nieces and nephews love to spend the weekend at her house. She lets them camp out on mattresses and in sleeping bags in the living room, where they play games and watch TV in their pajamas. But best of all, they love eating at their aunt’s house, because she is [...]
Running a marathon is nothing new to me. I have run the L.A. Marathon three times before, yet the training seems to get a bit more challenging every time. Perhaps I’m getting a little older? While I love the marathon training process, it always takes me a moment to get used to my new feeding [...]
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 [...]
Here we go again: A new study from Consumer Report claims it found “significant” levels of inorganic arsenic in rice. The highest levels of arsenic were found in rice grown in the U.S. and in brown rice—the rice we were told up until now was the healthiest rice to eat. If this is bad news [...]
Today the word superfood is a household term, with health-foodies eternally scavenging the world of nutritional wellness to discover the next unknown source of innumerable antioxidants; the next It consumable life force, the newest, most avant-garde gastronomical tool that will help them live even longer. But the irony is that when it comes to many [...]
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, [...]
Ever since one of Laura Fuentes’ kids super-glued her hair she’s become known online as the Super Glue Mom. With an MBA in International Business Development and a desire to help parents with healthier alternatives for packed lunches, Fuentes launched her company MOMables™ in 2011. Born in Spain and raised on tapas, she now lives [...]
More often than not, people tell me that the reason they don’t eat healthier or organic is because they don’t have the money. Why should eating healthy be a privilege? More than eight years ago, when I moved to South Florida from New York, organic food was not only scarce, it was expensive. Many people [...]
