Honoring the Iron Lady in Our Lives
Empowerment, Health
Watching The Iron Lady on the big screen, I was suddenly taken out of the film by a flash of recognition. For a moment, I saw my great aunt Concepcion—known to us as To (my brother and I called her Toe)—come to life before me. Like Margaret…
Medical Myth Buster: Red Meat and Iron
Diet & Nutrition, Health
Myth: Eat Red Meat for More Iron
Bust: Green vegetables—including kale, spinach, and green collards—and beans are a higher source of iron than meat. Moreover, they provide with nonheme iron, a form of iron that is more readily absorbed when…
Cooking With Your Computer
Diet & Nutrition, Health
Black bean soup—that’s what was on the menu last night. I remembered the onions, the garlic, the oregano… But what was the ingredient I was forgetting? And which of my many cookbooks had the best recipe? I couldn’t remember either…
An Open Letter to Demi Moore
Empowerment, Health
Dear Demi,
I don't know you. So I ask you to forgive my false familiarity. We have New Mexico in common, and I know of people who knew you growing up in Roswell. From what I've heard, you had a rough start in this world. So I…
3 Tips to Start Your Day In a Healthy Way
Empowerment, Health
Many of us use the momentum of the New Year to get healthy. But what does that actually look like for you? Is your desire to be in good health broken down into tangible goals or is your resolution simply to “get healthier in 2012"?
In…
Tips to Lose Weight After Pregnancy
Fitness & Exercise, Health
Never mind what celebrities, diet gurus or self-help books would have you believe about getting back to your post-pregnancy body. There’s really only five factors that play into safe, healthy weight loss—plus one virtue, patience.
“I…
Handling The Pressure to Drop the Baby Weight
Fitness & Exercise, Health
Jessica Simpson is in the news yet again—this time, for a lucrative deal she’s reportedly made with Weight Watchers to lose her post-pregnancy baby weight. You might think Simpson would be more wrapped up in, say, nesting—after all,…
Sh**t Girls Say to Girls with Breast Cancer
Featured Video - Health, TV MamiBreast cancer survivor, actor and comedy writer Jenny Lidice Saldana has kept her sense of humor while battling breast cancer and turned her experience into this hilarious video, Sh*t Girls Say to Girls with Breast Cancer. This Happy Cancer…
To Fix Your Body, First You Must Fix Your Soul
Empowerment, Health
It's funny how things are all connected, when you really sit down to look at them. Well, not funny in a comedic sense, but funny as in interesting. For years, I have had trouble controlling my impulses. Many people who knew me understood…