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Mid-Week Inspiration: Over 70-Years Old, and STILL a Brick House
Ladies and gents, meet Linda Wood Hoyte, 70 years of age. Yep. You read that right.
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Dance Your Way to Your Bikini Body: Hard As Heck, But Your Arse Will Thank You.
It’s March, and we’re just months away from bikini season, and quite frankly, I’m getting a bit flabby in the parts that will be showing by summer. I don’t like to skip my exercises when I’m traveling so I’ve been taking a three-series exercise DVD with me that has 1) kicked my ass 2)been so intense I can not finish the workout. Both are really good things, because in the last two weeks those flabby spots have firmed right up. Muscle fatigue is a really, really good thing. Feel and relish the burn, ladies…
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Why it Might Be Premature to Celebrate the Re-Authorization of the Violence Against Women Act
House Republicans think rape is negotiable. I think it’s safe to say all is lost…
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Day Nine of 28 Days of Heart Health: Floss or Die!
Bacteria festering between your teeth can lead to that crud making it’s way through your entire body.
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Day Seven of 28 Days of Heart Health: What’s Waist Circumference Have to Do With Heart Disease?
Turns out it’s belly fat, not BMI that determines the risk factors for heart disease.
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Day Six of 28 Days of Heart Health: Get the Low-Down on Low Carbs
When Dr. John Salerno – a protégé of “Atkins Diet” creator Dr. Robert Atkins – testified before the U.S.D.A. about plans for its most recent Food Pyramid revision, he spoke his mind: The food industry is corrupt and has supported recommendations that do not support the population’s health.
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Day Five of 28 Days of Heart Health: Watch Your Pressure; Breathe Easy.
It’s official. In a study conducted by Yale University, people who practiced yoga at least three times a week reduced their risk of hypertension and heart disease. This is good news, especially for African American women, who are at high risk of both high blood pressure and heart disease.
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I Yam Impressed: How one food can help you lose weight, stay fit and fight disease
Online you can now find tons of credible research extolling the health virtues of the Japanese Sweet Potato or Korean yam (also known as “goguma”), which forms the cornerstone of the diets belonging to the globe’s longest-lived populations, like the Okinawans in Japan.
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The Conspiracy to Keep You Tipping the Scales: Atkins Doctor Says to Fight Fat… with Fat.
“Hidden sugar, preservatives and highly processed white starch are what are really causing our health epidemic in the United States.”
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New Dissolving Female Condom Said to Prevent Pregnancy, STI’s, and HIV
Ever since BB&W regular, Law Wanxi, wrote to me with an uncomfortable truth, that women are pretty much on their own when it comes to birth control, the more I believe he might be right. That’s why I got excited when the geniuses at the University of Washington have created a dissolving female condom that not only protects women from unwanted pregnancy, but is said to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS.
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The Superwoman Complex: Deepak Chopra Breaks Down the Dangers of a Stressful Lifestyle
Innate social messaging systems tell Black women that they have to overcome, challenge, beat, and win every single thing they do. And, the Superwoman Complex is a leading indicator of stressful lifestyles for Black women. Do you cope with this or mask it?
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Would You Give ‘Plan B’ To Your Daughter?
Well, I have to admit I’m shocked at this one. The American Academy of Pediatrics is now recommending that teenagers be given prescriptions for Plan B, an emergency contraceptive that generally reduces the fertilization of egg and sperm with hopes that the measure will reduce teen pregnancy. Would you give it to your daughter?
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Ding Dong, the Twinkie’s Dead!! Hostess Goes Out of Business, Blames Baker Strike
I have a very close relative, morbidly obese, who may hold a funeral service for hostess–she’ll be crushed. She eats Twinkies with the gusto of a $20 whore giving fellatio.
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Just Say Hay-ell No to Butt Injections! Horrid, Horrific Footage of Butt Injection Gone Wrong
Who else here thinks risking your life to meet some ridiculous beauty FAD is about as dumb as you can get? You don’t see men doing this crazy crap to get a date. They’ll go to the gym, maybe get some hair implants and get their teeth fixed, but that’s about it. What’s up with us??
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Trend Alert: Dancing is the Latest ‘It Thing’ in Fitness
According to folks that know, dance classes are the hottest trend in health and fitness.
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“Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty,” a Book Review
America is getting bigger. While population is growing so is the average size of the waistbands on Americans’ jeans. The expansion in the number of overweight Americans is partly explained by the lack of ability by poor people to purchase the kind of affordable and nutritious food which would keep them healthy and slimmer. The food gap, as Winne refers to it, is the gap between the ability of the middle- and upper-classes to access high quality, nutritious food at an affordable price and with relative ease, while on the other side of the chasm there are millions of poor people who lack access and an ability to pay for the same high-quality food as their middle-class neighbors.
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Health: Thick Waist? That’s Almost as Bad as Smoking.
New research suggests that a large deposits of belly fat are just as bad on the body as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day.
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