A Call to Parents Seeking Excellence
According to the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale, soda companies are aggressively targeting African-American and Latino children, toddlers and teens alike, with their ads for sports, fruit and energy drinks. And to make matters even more insulting and alarming, ColorLines.com reports that the products that are promoted to kids of color [...]
C’BS ALife Allah offers his community and ours Hood Health Handbooks to educate us about health issues that plague people of color, and to get us to consider that our lifestyle choices often make us “the authors of our own dis-ease.” In the Hood Health Handbook, a collaboration of experts in nutrition, medicine, law, fitness and holistic [...]
With all of this talk about childhood obesity and healthy living, it seems like the right move to give your child a bottle of water– a bottle in his or her school lunch; a bottle after school and another one after the soccer game. To be certain, water is the better choice—better than soda, sports [...]
My family is an athletic bunch. We love sports-we have football, basketball, soccer, field hockey and lacrosse players among our numbers. We are allvery active. (well, usually—I recently severely dislocated my elbow playing tennis, so I am out of commission). This past weekend we celebrated Father’s Day with a family soccer game. Sunday morning was a [...]
According to Dr. Andrew Weil, the charismatic and holistic practitioner who I follow almost religiously, gratitude is good for our health. He sites several studies that say that thankfulness and the resulting social connectiveness bring about and help maintain good health, longevity and even prolonged survival for patients with very serious diseases. The recent Wall Street Journal [...]
There are subjects no one wants to talk about. There are lots of subjects we Black folks try our darndest to ignore. But some things will not be ignored. Some decisions about some things do not allow inaction. For some pressing matters, inaction is action. In fact, inaction can be a decision to die. So [...]
Should the First Lady use her daughters’ personal health issues to highlight her anti-obesity campaign? This article has questioned if this is good for the girls’ self image. My questioning the First Lady’s use of her children anecdotally in her anti-obesity speeches is a little like the pot calling the kettle black. I, after all, [...]
My family has begun a new tradition. We now join my parents and brother’s family every Sunday at my parent’s house for dinner. We don’t call my mother Big Momma and we rarely eat traditional soul food. But our gathering is reminiscent to the movie Soul Food! And the gathering itself is food for the [...]
What would happen if your child got the Swine flu but, like the 8.8 million other children in the U.S., you have no health insurance? Well, chances are you would want to keep her at home. But if you are working a job with little flexibility, she will likely go to school when she is already [...]
Whether you want to start a plan to regularly eat together or just add to the number of times you already dine as a family, join our group to receive daily tips, insights and encouragement. We will be an accountability group for each other. Here is how The Summer Family Meal Challenge works: The challenge [...]
Marian Wright Edelman at HuffPost
