Health and Fitness

14 May 14

The Breast Cancer Diagnosis of a Loved One

My mother was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. We’ve subsequently learned that her type of cancer is “triple negative,” which can be aggre...
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12 May 14

May is Mental Health Month. What Brings You Peace?

There’s a month for everything, isn’t there? But May being the official month for mental health sort of makes sense. Spring is FINALLY her...
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07 May 14

More Research Proves Benefits of Yoga

A new study published in the April 2014 issue of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine show that yoga can help with lowing blood pres...
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06 May 14

Feminism Series: Real Reasons Women Aren’t H...

So the conversation rages on over the real meaning behind the study released by Stephen Wu and Paul Hagstrom revealing the level of unhappiness expe...
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29 Apr 14

Happy Humpday: A Tiny Ember or a Raging Inferno (D...

Congratulations! You’ve made it to midweek. Only a few more days to go. So since you’ve got some time on your hands and may find yourself ...
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21 Apr 14

Monday Man Candy: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Wo...

The weather is starting to heat up but since I’m impatient I’ve decided to turn up my our body heat the old fashioned way. Mother nature&#...
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19 Mar 14

Surrender Versus Submission: What You Don’t ...

All this talk of men, sex, and femininity, yet again, has got my mind sizzling with ways in which I might be able to explain to you what’s so aw...
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12 Feb 14

Health: Bad News for Diet Soda Drinkers–Stud...

You think you’re doing something better for yourself when you skip all the sugary stuff at the fountain drink station for a seemingly-better cho...
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07 Feb 14

National Black HIV Awareness Day: Have You Been Te...

February 7th is National HIV Awareness Day. HIV/AIDS has claimed approximately 250,745 lives over the last five years. Though much less than the 80&#...
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30 Jan 14

Beyonce (the Album) Review: Why this Church Girl ...

Did y’all catch that Grammy performance?  Dayum.  I thought she had lost it as she had be gone for a minute, but we should never count King Bey ou...
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28 Jan 14

Crazy Diets: Two Hot Twin Doctors Put the “L...

Chris and Alexander “Xand” van Tulleken, twins who also happen to be doctors, recently embarked on an experiment to see which diets were w...
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09 Jan 14

Nuts! Paleo Diet Ranks Last With Diet Experts.

A recent roundup by U.S. News & World Report asked experts to rank diets and paleo–a lifestyle and diet I use and endorse–last. From C...
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06 Jan 14

Are Condiments Poisoning You?

Did you know that in 1973 the U.S. government raised food safety standards in response to botulism outbreaks? While strengthening standards for preser...
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29 Dec 13

LMAO, I’m All For Cutting Out the Sugar R...

This came up on my Facebook timeline and I laughed so hard I tooted. Apparently there was a lot of this happening by reviews of Sugar-Free Haribo Gumm...
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