LatinaLista — Fighting for women’s health rights has been an ongoing struggle ever since women got the right to vote. The struggle has gotten even harder these days with politicians, who in their eternal quest to balance the federal budget have put many programs that address women’s health issues on the chopping block. Too many times, [...]
Latina women: Victims of domestic violence
By Pablo Jaime Sáinz La Prensa San Diego SAN DIEGO — More than 65 percent of women who get help from a center for domestic violence in San Diego are Latinas. The numbers are alarming, but there are even more Latinas who don’t dare to denounce their aggressors because of fear, according to Cristina del [...]
Latina Lista giving away 2 free tickets to attend National Hispana Leadership Institute’s annual conference
Latina Lista — Want to network with hundreds of Latinas Listas? The National Hispana Leadership Institute (NHLI) will convene over six hundred Latinas, national leaders and NHLI’s accomplished alumnae at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in Los Angeles, CA in just a couple of days on November 3-4, 2011 at their annual national conference. For those [...]
Spain: My doggone theory why one body size shouldn’t dictate beauty
By Roxana Urrutia LatinaLista The other day at the park there was a lady, who obviously knew nothing about dogs, accusing another woman’s dog of being fat. The dog owner argued back defending her dog’s physique, and amid that hyped argument there was a third person who doubted which of the two was right. The [...]
The View’s Joy Behar wants Latinas to pay attention to their heart (health)
LatinaLista — When it comes to heart disease, Latinos are in a good position, not great, but good. In general, Latinos are 10 percent less likely to have coronary heart disease than non-Hispanic white adults and less likely to have high blood pressure, a contributing factor to heart disease, than non-Hispanic blacks. Yet, heart disease [...]
Guest Voz: Domestic violence still taboo among Latinos
LatinaLista – October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Domestic violence is a real issue among Latinos but it’s an issue that doesn’t get enough attention — especially for Spanish-speaking victims. One author wants to change that. Dr. Celso William Chignoli wrote the book Violencia doméstica: Detección, prevención, y ayuda (Domestic Violence: Detection, prevention and help). In [...]