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America's Food Debates Ignore Black Urban Farms
America’s food rhetoricians ignore what low-income African-American communities are already doing to gain access to healthier food choices, including cultivating urban farms, Erika Nicole Kendall writes at Salon. “When the grassroots efforts of hard working people have to be downplayed or outright ignored for you to make your point … it’s time to change your…
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Loving Your 'Thickness' Is Not a Barrier to Fitness
Ebony‘s Erika Nicole Kendall says that black America’s health problems are not caused by black women who love their “thick” bodies, and destroying their self-esteem isn’t a solution. We talk a lot about what fat-shaming does to us as a society, but do we ever really talk about what it does to us as individuals?…
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What Is 'Clean Eating,' Anyway?
April is the perfect time for spring cleaning in your home, but what about your body? On Ebony, Erika Nicole Kendall breaks down “clean eating,” including how to do it and why it’s important for your long-term health. What makes clean eating so important? Quite simply, the exclusion of processed foods comes with the inclusion…
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Black Women Suffering Silently With Eating Disorders
We cannot heal what we refuse to identify as a wound, Erika Nicole Kendall writes in a piece for Ebony. My mother is in the hospital for a subarachnoid hemorrhage, which basically means that a blood vessel burst in her brain. She is laying in a hospital bed, silent, still and bandaged. I am a…
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Refuse to Be a Slave to the Scale
Erika Nicole Kendall explains at A Black Girl’s Guide to Weight Loss why tying your self-esteem to an often meaningless number does more harm than good. I spend a good half hour skimming through my feed reader and checking out different fitness-related tidbits and news out there. Today is no different. I found an article…
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Black Women Want to Be Fat? I'm Confused
In an op-ed for the New York Times, Erika Nicole Kendall, creator of the A Black Girl’s Guide to Weight Loss blog, explains why she was so perplexed by a piece declaring that African-American women enjoy being overweight. Alice Randall’s recent op-ed confused me. I couldn’t quite tell if the estimated 4 percent of the…
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