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Latina Fitness With Evelyn Lozada: "5 Tricks to Increase Your Metabolism & Lose Weight"

By Evelyn Lozada | 05/22/2013 - 14:36 | 0 Comments

Has anyone ever told you, I have the FAT gene?  Or, fat runs in my family and our metabolism is slooooooow! If so, don’t you dare worry, because I have five tricks that can help you boost your metabolism and lose weight fast! I bet you didn’t realize there is a trick to it all, did you?

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Commentary: It’s Not OK For Abercrombie & Fitch To Tell Me I’m Too Fat

By Irina Gonzalez | 05/16/2013 - 16:50 | 0 Comments

Being overweight in America is not easy. I know because, although I’m at a healthy weight now, I have struggled with my weight for most of my life. At my highest, I ballooned up to 230 pounds (at just 5’2”!) and wore size 18 clothes. Well, to be honest, I really should have been wearing size 20 pants but I refused to go up that high. Instead, that was the...

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CNN Anchor Zoraida Sambolin Reveals She Has Breast Cancer, Plans on Getting Mastectomy

By Sugey Palomares | 05/15/2013 - 11:23 | 0 Comments

CNN’s Early Start co-anchor Zoraida Sambolin has revealed that Angelina Jolie’s recent story encouraged her to come forward about her battle with breast cancer. While on-air yesterday, the 47-year-old journalist said she was diagnosed...

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I'm a Survivor! 5 Latino Stars Who Beat Cancer

By Sugey Palomares | 05/14/2013 - 09:26 | 0 Comments

Cancer affects everyone from our neighbors, friends, and family, to celebrities. Actress Angelina Jolie confessed in an op-ed article for The New York Times that she underwent several surgeries because she was...

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Latinas and Skin Cancer: Facts You Should Know

By Celia Shatzman | 05/10/2013 - 11:59 | 0 Comments

Think skin cancer is not your problem? Think again.

Despite what you may have heard, it’s not just white people who are at risk for skin cancer. “The most common question I get from patients is, ‘Why did I get skin cancer if I’m brown?” says Puerto Rican dermatologist Maritza Perez, an associate clinical professor at Columbia University in New York...

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Commentary: Junk Food Commercials Are Targeting Latino Kids In Childhood Obesity Epidemic Fight

By Irina Gonzalez | 05/09/2013 - 16:59 | 0 Comments

When I was a child and my family first came to the U.S., I remember going to McDonald’s and drinking a lot of soda constantly. Although I was always a bit on the chubby site, it wasn’t long before my weight ballooned up thanks to all of the junk food advertising I was suddenly seeing everywhere. 

I remember fighting with my mom as a teen, when she tried to get...

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Latina Fitness With Evelyn Lozada: "8 Ways to Motivate Yourself For a Workout!"

By Evelyn Lozada | 05/09/2013 - 10:02 | 0 Comments

How do you find the motivation to exercise, especially when you don't feel like getting off your rump to do so? Oh, believe me, I have had my days when I'm down right tired and I feel as though I'm not in this by myself.

You have to be mentally prepared to exercise and most of the time, you can psych yourself into working out. I don't know about you, but I think we...

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Making Us Proud: The Race of Her Life

By Cristina Goyanes | 05/02/2013 - 11:34 | 0 Comments

The way many Latinas are built — with strong, shapely lower halves — you’d think we’d be natural cyclists. For María del P. Vázquez, that was exactly the case. When the 41-year-old started spin classes seven years ago as a way to cope with a bitter divorce, the mother of three from Caguas, Puerto Rico, discovered a hidden talent and fun hobby that led her...

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