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Our Little Girls are Overweight and Depressed
First, the good news: University and hospital researchers in California have developed a new health-improvement program shown to have positive effects on cholesterol levels, diabetes risk and depression symptoms in obese African-American girls. That statement contains some pretty bad news: Little black girls are experiencing depression. Why? Researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine and…
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I Exercised My Right to Vote Today, But . . .
. . . that’s the only exercise I’ve had in about a week, though. I know; I’m terrible. I’m trying. It’s just that my world has done a 180, and everything has to be rethought, from the best time to take a shower to what I’ll wear to work. I forgot how time-consuming planning a…
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This is a Day of Mourning
My favorite month of the year ended yesterday, and I’m kinda sad. I love, love, LOVE October – always have, always will. If you’re a regular reader, you know fall is my favorite season, a time when I experience a sort of energy overdrive. You also know I’ve created a nickname for this time of…
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I Am My Mother’s Daughter
Happy Birthday, Mom. The Vivian turns 79 today, and I’m fairly certain she’ll party like it’s 1959. To this day, my social life is nowhere near as active as hers, and I doubt it ever will be (but I’m working on it). As long as I can remember, she bowled twice a week with one…
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Let's Just Kill All the Fat Folks
Seriously. They’re just a blight on the landscape of life, literally embodying all that is wrong with these United States of America. At least, that was the gist of Marie Claire blogger Maura Kelly’s Monday-morning rant. She writes the “A Year of Living Flirtatiously” blog for the magazine, and in Monday’s entry, let us all…
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Maybe the Way to a Woman’s Heart is Through Her Hair
In certain barbershops around the country, black men are getting targeted messages of health along with their haircuts. I’ve been reading about these developments for a couple of years now, but haven’t heard of a similar trend among black women and beauty salons. The men are getting high blood pressure tests and health screenings along…
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Dawn of the Dead
Finally made it back to the gym, and took a rather complicated route to get there. My son had to be at work at 6 a.m., so I rolled out of bed at 5 a.m., even though my alarm was set for 5:15. I’d gone to bed around 10:30 p.m., but was awake from about…
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Striking a Balance Between Work and Working Out
Y’all, please pray for my stressed out soul. It’s 6:23 a.m., and I am so tired I could have easily slept another four hours. I’m not feeling well, either. A little nausea, a lot of seasonal allergy/asthma symptoms. I woke up Saturday morning with swollen, froggy eyelids, and about two hours later I was calling…
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Why Are We Killing Ourselves?
This is a question to which I can’t seem to find a logical answer. I’ve got the “how” pretty much all figured out, because doctors and health officials from the U.S. Attorney General on down keep lobbing statistical grenades at us every chance they get. Here’s a sampling of the latest: · Up to 1…
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Day 4 and Still Losing the Sleep Battle
Definitely heading back to the gym next week. Looks like I’ll be able to fit it into my schedule just fine, especially in the morning. Looks like it’s simply a matter of allowing myself enough time to get there, workout, and dress for work while there. The only problem lies in whether or not I…