Guapura 101: Stretching And Relaxation

Okay everybody, as someone who has done several types of martial arts, but yoga only once, I thought it would be a good time to talk about stretching. If y’all […]

We’ll call it the paradox within the paradox. Scientists and health professionals have been talking and scratching their heads about the Latino paradox for years: the fact that, despite unfavorable […]

I remember that when I lived in Brownsville — at the tip of Texas on the ocean and border — I had great skin. Part of this, I always supposed, […]

If you’re a Latina and your family is anything like mine, people have been expecting you to be married (to a man) for a really long time. And, since you […]

I was one of the last people to see Carlos Guerra alive. The day after Thanksgiving I went to visit him in Port Aransas, we did some NewsTaco videos and […]

Props to Dr. Nancy Rudner Lugo, a former professor of the University of Central Florida, for taking the school to task over negative Latino stereotyping, and losing her job in […]

Half of Americans are probably going to have diabetes by 2020, according to a new report from the UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform & Modernization. We’ve written about diabetes cake/pie, […]

By now you probably know that President Barack Obama was inadvertently hit in the face while playing basketball and required 12 stitches. What you may not know is that a […]

A recent report said that Latinas and African-American women don’t worry about their weight as much as whites do, they tend to see themselves as having a “normal” weight more […]

The Los Angeles Times reports that Latinos tend to develop Alzheimer’s Disease about seven years earlier than whites. This, combined with lower levels of health insurance, income and education and […]