La Raza Convention Adds Focus on Health - Los Angeles Times

“On a crowded Los Angeles Convention Center floor Sunday, Gloria Ramirez winced as a medical technician poked her finger and pressed out blood into a hand-held device to measure sugar levels. The digital machine quickly showed the score: 129, close to borderline levels for diabetes.

The news, she said, wasn’t surprising. Her doctor had told her a year ago to lay off tortillas, red meat and her favorite food, Mexican breads, to avoid diabetes. Tough as that’s been, Ramirez said, there was one thing that made the sacrifices worthwhile: her family.”

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