Health and Fitness

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...

Turns out it's belly fat, not BMI that determines the risk factors for heart disease....
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Macho Little Black Girls Part II: Machoism Kills&#...

"I do strongly suspect that this behavior is a sadistic attempt to encourage black women into a mentality and lifestyle that "protects them" from bein...
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Day Six of 28 Days of Heart Health: Get the Low-Do...

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 rece...
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Day Five of 28 Days of Heart Health: Watch Your Pr...

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 h...
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Day Four of 28 Days of Heart Health: Healthy Heart...

Sometimes managing all the to-do's for a healthy lifestyle can be overwhelming. It's less so if you pace yourself. Follow this schedule from morning t...
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Day Three of 28 Days of Heart Health: Everything Y...

What does sugar have to do with heart health? Well, sugar consumption in the United States is ridiculously high, and manufacturers scheme by hiding su...
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Day Two of 28 Days of Heart Health: Is Your House ...

Make each room in your home conducive to you getting yourself healthy....
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How to Pack It: Go from Home-to-Work-to-Gym-to-Da...

So, once you get serious about making exercise a regular and non-negotiable part of your new healthy lifestyle, you can't let a little thing like logi...
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28 Days of Heart Health: Day One; Just How Serious...

We hear a lot about how black women are at high risk of of diabetes, cancer and high blood pressure, but not enough attention is being paid to heart d...
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Weight Loss Surgery? Sometimes You Just Need Help

Hear some real, compassionate talk from a former gastric bypass patient....
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Four Diet/Fitness Myths, Busted by Fitness Trainer...

Have you ever had these faulty ideas when you started your health and fitness regimen?...
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Could Fat Shaming Help People Lose Weight? One Doc...

And guess why they're doing that? Because to some degree, SHAME WORKS. ...
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