The Vicious African American Weight Loss Cycle – Part Two
By Makeisha Lee, Health and Nutritional Advisor
Columbus, OH (BlackNews.com) – Tyler Perry’s movie, Why Did I Get Married?, struck a cord of pain with our community for several reasons. However, there was one undeniable, universal appeal that of identification with the overweight character, played by Jill Scott. From the embarrassment that obesity caused the character when denied air travel, to the unrelenting ridicule from her mate, and even self-degrading comments was, “oh too familiar” for a lot of us.
BLOG TOUR – LaConnie Taylor-Jones
LaConnie Taylor-Jones holds advanced degrees in community public health and business administration and has written several scientific research publications for the past fifteen years. When not writing, she’s involved with the Contra Costa Alumnae chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., the African American Community Health Advisory Committee, and Black Women Organized for Political. An active member of the San Francisco Area and Black Diamonds chapters of RWA since 2003, Ms. Taylor-Jones has combined her writing skills with a twenty-five-year passion for reading romance in the completion of two full-length multicultural romance novels, When I’m With You and When A Man Loves A Woman.
Too Far Out
THE JOURNEY
Too Far Out
by Becky DeWitt
Today, there are so many different situations that are plaguing and reeking havoc in every area of our lives in the Body of Christ. The cries have reached a pitch that is not audible in the natural, but piercing in the realm of the spirit. Many are screaming on the inside, while quoting scriptures in the atmosphere on the outside, standing out in deep water. The shield of faith has been soaked with the oil of the Word to quench the fiery darts that have been launched. Meanwhile, in the midst of the stand, the attack of the enemy increases continuously with a ferocious bombardment.
Guest Blogger | Linda Leigh Hargrove
Dreaming in Color
IN LIVING COLOR
Do you dream in color? Or do you only think you do? Do you really dream in black and white and the memory of that Technicolor pony in a red sports car is just that — only a memory. Evaporated like an ice cube on a warm plate.
Many mornings, as I lie in bed listening to the warm air rattling through the vents overhead, struggling to remember the colors in my dreams, I worry that I’ve only imagined them. And I’m just wasting my time trying to remember. And that no matter how good it was, it was only a dream. Only a collection of my crazy, giddy, mournful pasts colliding with unrealized events of the next moment. But still I lie there and wish in vain that the dream will linger. That the good things will last a little longer.
The Vicious African American Weight Loss Cycle – Part One
Makeisha Lee, Health and Nutritional Advisor
Columbus, OH (BlackNews.com) – Blacks are officially considered to be an endangered species due to obesity and terrifying related illness. Diets, surgeries, pills, exercise motions and potions; though easily and readily available have done little-to-nothing to help people lose weight long-term. If those options don’t completely suit your fancy, then you have high powered initiatives to get people moving into action; like the Bally’s fitness Challenge, Shaq’s Challenge, BET healthy challenge, and of course the 50 Million Pound Challenge. All of these are attempting to provide a solution to the Obesity plague for our community.
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