As the health community geared up to recognize National Women and Girls HIV Awareness Day today, startling new research revealed that the disease is five times more prevalent among African-American women than previously thought. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 1 in 32 African-American women will be diagnosed with HIV in […]
Cicely C. Mitchell– We spend considerable amounts of time strolling down the aisles of a grocery store, we walk from our cars to shopping malls…
After 30 years of the HIV pandemic, one might think that terms such as "community collaboration" and "community participation" would be commonplace among those fighting the disease. But in many communities across the country, this is not the case. In fact, the clock seems to be rolling back to the early days, when the opinions and actions of a small minority marginalized the voices of those who were most impacted by the global pandemic. Make no mistake: many people are indeed living longer with HIV disease as a result of improved treatments. But with all of the dynamic shifts in HIV treatment, prevention, and policy, it is especially disheartening -- and, we would say, dangerous -- that women, black gay men, people of color, heterosexual men, transgender individuals and, most notably, Black organizations still must fight to be heard by the decision makers who develop, implement, and allocate funding for HIV-related policies and programs.
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On Friday, HuffPost Food reported on rumors that Paula Deen would soon come clean with her diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes. But now it's official -- the celebrity chef made the media rounds Tuesday morning. Here's the Associated Press on Deen's announcement: Celebrity chef and Food Network star Paula Deen is teaming with drugmaker Novo Nordisk to launch a program that aims to help people live with Type 2 diabetes and promote a Novo diabetes drug.
Seventeen years ago, TV host and radio personality Egypt Sherrod and talent manager and top realtor Amber Noble-Garland met during broadcast journalism class at Temple University. As the two studious overachievers fought for their professor’s attention and feverishly debated one answer after another something miraculous happened – two young women with seemingly nothing in common formed a friendship greater than either of them had ever known before. That bond set the stage for a lifelong partnership they’d grow to love, cherish, and appreciate more and more each year.
You are what you eat. So this could mean that eating satisfying-but-equally-bad-for-you foods may stand in the way of your beauty. Of course, beauty is supposedly skin deep, but if you’re still concerned about the skin that people actually see, you may want to watch the foods you put into your body. There are plenty of […]
On Tuesday, TMZ reported the results of the autopsy done on legendary rapper Heavy D. Only a short time before his death I sat with my kids watching him on the BET Awards. I told my son how important he was to hip-hop. My wife told my daughter how much we used to dance to […]
Susanne Eman will do whatever it takes to become the world’s largest woman. Even if that means eating over 20,000 calories per day. The 32-year-old Arizona mother of two plans on reaching her 1,600+ pound goal by the time she’s 41 or 42, according to the Sun. Despite her enormous intake, her two sons apparently […]
Whether rooted in the old "big boned" theory or a reluctance to work out for beauty sake, researchers say that black women's perception of obesity differs from that of white women. Tiffany L. Cox, and her team from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the Neuropsychiatric Research Institute in Fargo, ND, and Obesity and Quality of Life Consulting in Durham, NC analyzed data between 2000 and 2010 and found that most obese women are dissatisfied with their quality of life when compared to women of "normal" weight, but black women report a higher quality of life than white women of the same weight.
FAIRVIEW PARK, OH (WOIO) – – A grand opening Wednesday for a new healthy supermarket. Earth Fare is located in Westgate, and will offer a wide variety of local, organic and healthy foods. The market prohibits items with high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils (trans-fats), as well as artificial preservatives, sweeteners, flavors […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – A 6-year-old female Masai giraffe was euthanized Saturday at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo due to her rapidly declining health condition. Animal keepers found her lying on the floor of the giraffe barn early Saturday morning. “Shirley” was suffering from complications following the birth of her first calf on October 28 including a […]