Much ado about BPA

Bisphe­nol A is the lat­est poster child in the war among those who fear its neg­a­tive health effects and those who think there’s no cause for alarm

Mental illness: denied or unidentified?

The Latino com­mu­nity gen­er­ally doesn’t talk about enfer­medad men­tal. They suf­fer dis­pro­por­tion­ately from depres­sion, anx­i­ety and other men­tal health dis­or­ders, yet less than one in 11 indi­vid­u­als seek help for it

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Caught between two cultures

One in five Latina teens seri­ously con­sid­ers suicide

The health insurance gap

Many fam­i­lies are find­ing them­selves in an inel­i­gi­ble gap, with bud­gets too tight to afford pri­vate health insur­ance and too “pros­per­ous” to qual­ify for pub­lic assis­tance. What can they do besides cross their fin­gers and look both ways – twice?

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Maternity ready

Months ago, Rosario Her­rera might have spent a few dol­lars on an iced cof­fee or an order of French fries if she was stressed out or in a funk.
Now, a walk around the block near her Phoenix home is the stress rem­edy for the first-time mother expect­ing her baby boy in Sep­tem­ber.
After dis­cov­er­ing she was pregnant, […]

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Living by the food pyramid

Nutri­tion has its place, but so does por­tion size and exercise

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Know your risk

Many things affect your risk for type 2 dia­betes, heart dis­ease, and stroke. Some of these things, like your weight and how much you exer­cise, you can change. Other things, like your age, gen­der, race, or fam­ily his­tory – you can’t change.

Diabetes – myths and risks

Ask any­one what Type 2 dia­betes is, and unless they’re a med­ical pro­fes­sional or sci­en­tist, they may find it dif­fi­cult to explain. To put it as sim­ply as pos­si­ble, it’s a con­di­tion of high blood sugar (glu­cose) level due to the body either not pro­duc­ing enough insulin or because body cells […]

1,654 rapes too many

April is National Sex­ual Assault Aware­ness Month. When I men­tioned I would write an arti­cle focused on sex­ual assault, I received quite a bit of feed­back that I should write about some­thing less intense. Con­versely, I received feed­back that I should not sug­ar­coat the mes­sage. All of […]

Share your caregiving story

For many years, the com­fort­able Figueroa house was a sec­ond home to neigh­bor­hood teenagers. The kids grew up, and then it became a sec­ond home for Robert Figueroa’s 91-year-old mother, Julia. Robert and his wife, Isabelle, like many Mexican-American fam­i­lies, ten­derly cared for the older woman until her death late last year. Although they received […]

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