Obesity Can Lead To Arthritis, Cancer, And Even Death

Obesity Can Lead To Arthritis, Cancer, And Even Death

Mary Mata June 7, 2011

Why do people always have to talk about obesity and diabetes as Latino issues? Surely, Latinos get other diseases worth discussing? Yes, this true, there are plenty of diseases to […]

Keep Your Kid Healthy WIth 20 Minutes Of Play A Day

Mary Mata May 25, 2011

I don’t remember much from my days in elementary school, but I do fondly recall the moments I spent on the playground during recess. For 20 minutes every day I […]

Bien Hecho: Latina Works To Address Childhood Obesity

Mary Mata May 3, 2011

University of California at Davis Professor Adela de la Torre recently received a grant to help Latino kids in that state with obesity and related problems. She’s an agricultural economic and […]

News Taco To Go: Education, Employment, Obesity, Gulf Coast and Buget

Mary Mata March 31, 2011

President Barack Obama, seemingly surprised by Census results, has begun to court Latino voters around the issue of education. Last week 6,000 less people applied for unemployment, perhaps hinting at […]

Biased Study Shows Obese Latinas, Children Underestimate Weight

Mary Mata March 24, 2011

A new study shows that mothers who are obese, as well as their children, underestimate their weight. Most of those who participated in the Columbia University study were Latinos and […]

People Under 20 Developing Diabetes At Alarming Rates

Mary Mata March 22, 2011

More young people than ever are being diagnosed with diabetes, meaning that the future of health care in this country is going to be even worse than we thought, and […]

NewsTaco To Go: Obesity, Abortions, Mexico Deaths, Labor and Arizona

Mary Mata February 8, 2011

Arizona wants to undo the Constitution, there’s a labor shortage of skilled workers, childhood obesity is bad, a U.S. teen was killed in Mexico, the government is cutting programs and […]

Bien Buena – Latinas Don’t Worry About Weight

Mary Mata November 24, 2010

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 […]