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Black Women Battle Obesity with Dialogue, Action
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nicole Ari Parker was motivated by frustration. For Star Jones, it was a matter of life or death. Toni Carey wanted a…
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Health and Wellness
Benefits Seen in Hormone Use Early in Menopause
A new study may reassure some women considering short-term use of hormones to relieve hot flashes and other menopause symptoms. Starting low-dose treatment early in…
Health and Wellness
Do Black Women Choose to Be Fat?
Alice Randall has written and interesting essay/article for the NY Times on fat black women. Randall notes that four out of five black women are…
Fashion
Is the Vogue Vow More Hype Than Health?
Lip service or sea change? Skeptics wonder whether Vogue magazine’s vow to ban models under 16 or those of any age with visible signs of…
Health and Wellness
Serena says diet change to support Venus not hard
Serena said she’s cut down on eating chicken and fish and is eating more raw foods like Venus, who adopted the change to help her…
Health and Wellness
Beyond drowsy, too little sleep ups diabetes risk
More people pull the night shift. Teens text past midnight and stumble to class at dawn. Travelers pack red-eye flights. Nodding off behind the wheel…
Health and Wellness
Blacks have trouble clearing cervical cancer virus
Provocative new research might help explain why black women are so much more likely than whites to develop and die from cervical cancer: They seem…
Health and Wellness
Study finds some early breast cancer overdiagnosed
NEW YORK (AP) — For years, women have been urged to get screened for breast cancer because the earlier it’s found, the better. Now researchers…
