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Medical Myth Buster: You Lose 45% of Your Body Heat Through Your Head

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Myth: You lose at least 45% of your body heat through your head, so keep it covered in cold weather. This is a very popular myth that I strongly believed and shared with others over the years. But a military study testing the loss of body…
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Why Latinos Should Try Acupuncture!

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For some reason, most of us will never try acupuncture. Maybe it’s cultural prejudice: How do you know the needles are clean? It probably hurts! It’s a placebo: it doesn’t REALLY work! It’s a sham—it’s not scientific! No matter…
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Medical Myth Buster: Stay Warm or You’ll Catch a Cold

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Myth: Stay warm and dry, or you’ll catch a cold. How many times did your mother or abuela urge you to don a hat, wear a heavier coat, or sleep with an extra blanket, all so that you wouldn’t catch a draft and therefore catch cold. It’s…
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Young Heart Patient Designs Nike Shoe to Raise Money for a Cure

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Gone are the words "Air Jordan" on the tongue of the sneaker. Instead, it is replaced with "POLLITO." With his name being accompanied alongside Michael Jordan and the Air Jordan Retro 9 sneakers, 11-year-old Oswaldo Jiménez is the new…
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Are Extended Wear Contact Lenses for You?

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Contact lens wearers have known for years that contacts in their eyes need to be removed before nodding off to sleep. It's just one of those accepted things in life—you don't sleep with contact lenses in. But times have changed as improvements…
Medical Myth Buster: Wait 30 Minutes After Eating to Go Swimming

Medical Myth Buster: Wait 30 Minutes After Eating to Go Swimming

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When I was a kid, I must have been told a thousand times that I needed to wait at least 30 minutes after eating before I could go swimming. It was, without fail, 30 minutes of pure torture. Little did I know that the wait was totally unnecessary. Myth:…
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How to Exercise When You're a Busy Mom

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What busy mom can find time to exercise? In order to stay in good physical shape, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommends a minimum of 20 minutes of moderate physical activity per day, plus strength training twice a week.…
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CNN Hero Catalina Escobar Restrepo: Helping Cartagena’s Teen Moms

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Actress Meryl Streep once said that “motherhood has a very humanizing effect. It gets reduced to the essentials.” And Catalina Escobar Restrepo—the award-winning businesswoman and entrepreneur with the soul of a social activist—literally…
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Born With No Arms or Legs—Artist Juan Agudelo Draws With His Heart

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Pirate ships, dragons, still life, a Bengal tiger. Inside Juan Agudelo's portfolio you'll find innocent drawings from a 20-year-old whose disabilities only made him stronger. Agudelo was born with no arms and no legs in a Colombian hospital…