Nutrition Archive

Self Advocacy

6 Superfoods That Help Beat Diabetes

11/01/2017 06:00am | 9410 views

By Leslie Goldman from Parents Latina

By the year 2020, it's predicted that more than half of us will be diabetic or pre-diabetic. Here are 6 superfoods that will help you beat the odds.

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Lifestyle

Snapchat Taps Mitú to Reach Latino Youth

06/02/2017 06:00am | 8088 views

Snapchat is adding another Discover channel to its lineup with an eye toward multicultural millennials.

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Self Advocacy

The Smithsonian Honors “Southern-Latino” Cookbook Author Sandra Gutierrez 

31/01/2017 06:00am | 7652 views

By Jill Warren Lucas, Indy Week

Two years ago, museum curator Ariana Curtis tasked her team at the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum with identifying Latino immigrants who had achieved a distinct version of the American dream by explicitly expressing their culture, through anything from creative arts and construction to social justice and celebrations. They came across Sandra Gutierrez, a Cary cookbook writer whose early accomplishment was persuading Cary News that a Latina could manage the food section of a Southern newspaper.

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Healthcare Disparities

More Than One In Five Latinos Is Food Insecure

03/01/2017 06:00am | 6281 views

Yuliana Salinas, for Huffington Post

Food insecurity is down in Illinois, according to data from Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap 2014 study, but there’s still plenty of work to do. This can be seen in the reality that many Latinos are not asking for the help that they may need.

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Nourishing Self Care

Make One Less Resolution for the New Year

31/12/2015 06:00am | 10871 views

This time of year so many of us can fall for the “diet trap” – resolving to make extreme and abrupt changes to our diet or exercise routines. But, improving our eating habits and increasing our physical activity doesn’t have to be tied to an arbitrary day such as January 1st or “any Monday”.

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