Nutritionist, radio personality Luz Maria Briseño to sign books at

Page A12 • September 26, 2013 • Inland Empire Community Newspapers
Nutritionist, radio personality Luz Maria Briseño
to sign books at Barnes & Noble in Redlands
Courtesy photo
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By Cynthia Mendoza
n Saturday, October 5, nutritionist, author and radio
personality Luz Maria
Briseño will be signing two of her
books at Barnes & Noble in Redlands. Briseño is a very popular
Spanish speaking radio nutrition
talk show host with a passion for
nutrition and a passion for sharing
the message of good health
amongst the Latino community.
Her radio show, Curvas Peligrosas
(Dangerous Curves), airs on Jose
97.5 FM locally from 12-1 p.m.
daily and 11 a.m. to noon in syndication. Briseño says she is extremely grateful for Entravision,
Nestor Rocha and Carl Mayer for
the opportunity to share such an
important message through their
airwaves, which usually only play
music, no talk radio. The two books
she’ll be signing at Barnes & Noble
are “Cuerpazo A Cualquier Edad”
(A Great Body At Any Age) and
Las Herramientas Del Cuerpo
(Tools For The Body).
“Because of so much suffering
that results from poor nutrition,
Hispanics are ready to change their
nutritional lifestyle,” she says referring to the increase in diseases such
as diabetes, obesity and heart problems amongst many Latinos. “They
now see for themselves and believe
that we are what we eat.”
Briseño, who at the age of 28 fell
into a coma due to a pre-heart attack she suffered because of very
poor eating habits, is a firm believer
that good nutrition can prevent and
in some cases reverse certain conditions.
“You can change certain parts of
your DNA in 12 months through
proper nutrition,” she says. “If you
eat right, exercise and don’t smoke
or drink, you can change some
propensities to theses diseases.”
Briseño makes it clear though that
while no amount of good nutrition
can totally change all DNA or reverse impacts of poor nutrition,
good nutrition can in fact reverse
other impacts or symptoms.
“Nutrition is preventive medicine,” she emphasizes. “Nutrition
slows down the rate of a disease
spreading or lessons symptoms so
it won’t keep on advancing.”
As someone who at one time ate
jelly donuts and coffee for breakfast and had banana splits for dinner on a regular basis, Briseño is no
stranger to the bad habits and negative impacts that they cause, such
as ending up in a coma. Nor to the
excuses that she often hears to continue going down the same path, “I
don’t have time” being one of the
most common.
There also appears to be a very
deep-seated pattern of thinking that
equates time to emotion and exer-
On Saturday, October 5,
Spanish language radio
nutrition talk show host
Luz Maria Briseño will be
signing two of her books at
Barnes & Noble in Redlands. As someone who at
one time in her life was
very ill due to poor nutrition, she has a passion for
sharing information and
encouraging others to
take care of their health.
cise to negative emotions due
to the physical discomfort
and pain commonly associated to it.
“But if you choose to see the benefits of exercise, you’ll do it,” she
says. “And exercise gives you energy and makes you happy. The
discomfort and pain is only for the
first ten minutes.”
Another common obstacle is that
often times even people with the
best of intentions, take on way too
much at once and become discour-
aged,”
“Start small,” she says of nutrition
and exercise. “Incorporate one new
small habit every week.”
Her message is simple: “It’s time
to exercise and eat right,” she says.
“Either you change or you die prematurely. If fear and suffering don’t
motivate us to change, nothing will
do it.”
While her books and radio show
are in Spanish, she is having her
books translated and she will be
recording English language segments for her website. Her website
will soon be available in English as
well.
Briseño will be at Barnes and
Noble in Redlands from 1 p.m. to 5
p.m. Only guests with receipts for
their books will be offered a place
in line for signing. A percentage of
related purchases will be donated to
the AK Smiley Adult Literacy Program and Lugonia Elementary
School. The store is located at the
Citrus Plaza Shopping Center at
27460 Lugonia Ave.For more information, contact Laurie Aldern at
909-793-4945, [email protected].
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CSUSB hosts 15th Annual California Native
American Day celebration, student conference
ore than 1,500 schoolage children will visit
Cal
State
San
Bernardino and learn first-hand
about California’s Native American
culture, history and customs as part
of the week-long California Cultural Awareness Conference to be
held on campus from Sept. 23-27.
The conference, which will be led
by Native American leaders and
representatives from several tribes,
is a prelude to the 15th Annual California Native American Day on
Friday, Sept. 27, at CSUSB.
California Native American Day
will feature traditional Northern
California brush dancers, Southern
California bird singers, a traditional
Native American theater company
performance featuring all-ages
dance groups from Central and
Northern California, food and
demonstrations of traditional life
ways and knowledge.
The celebration, which is hosted
by the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians and Cal State San
Bernardino, along with the university’s Cross Cultural Center, is free
and open to the public. Free park-
ing will be available in Lot D.
Partners in the event include the
San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools, San Manuel
Education Department, the San
Bernardino City Unified School
District, the city of San Bernardino
and the California State Department of Education.
Gov. Ronald Reagan officially acknowledged the contributions of
California's Native Americans in
1968, when he signed a resolution
proclaiming the fourth Friday of
September as American Indian
Day. In 1998, the California Legislature passed Assembly Bill 1953,
written by then-Assemblyman Joe
Baca, establishing Native American Day as an official state holiday.
For more information on California Native American Day , call
(909) 537-7204 or visit the California Native American Day website
at www.nativeamericanday.com.
For more information on Cal
State San Bernardino, contact the
university’s Office of Public Affairs
at (909) 537-5007 and visit
http://news.csusb.edu.