So it’s 3am and I’m on the couch with a big ‘ol bag of popcorn in my lap and on pops this infomercial called Flirty Girl.  Don’t you raise your eyebrow at me like I’m doing something wrong by sitting on my behind.   I know the rest of you ladies out there doing the same damn thing. I got so sucked into this thing that I almost sat my popcorn down.  I even started thinking...

A seven-year-old girl with a tennis ball-sized tumor that was wrapped around her aorta and her internal organs had surgery to remove it. In order to do that, they had to take six of her organs out and remove the tumor and then put the organs back in. They were able to save three of them, and although she will be diabetic for the rest of her life she is expected to live normally now. It’s amazing,...

African American women get heart disease at a greater rate than Caucasian women. Unfortunately, a lot of minority women aren’t aware of their risk so they don’t do anything about it. No matter what your race or genetic history, you don’t have to simply assume that you’ll get heart disease. You can take action to try to avoid it. The sooner you start the better, but it’s...

If you’re African American, you should know that your diabetes risk is higher than a Caucasian person’s risk. There are a lot of complications and other health problems that can be caused by – and come along with – diabetes. Fortunately, there are things that you can do to reduce your risk of complications like blindness, heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, amputation, and nerve...

I’m always watching the National Geographic channel specials and I just can’t understand why black men & women have so many more health problems than white people.  Especially when you realize that every single person alive today came out of Africa to start with. So what is it about my dark skin that makes scientists keep finding more messed up stuff. Being an overweight black woman,...

I purchased a Wii console and Wii Fit and I was all excited and ready to get rolling on my latest weight loss adventure.  Now, I know nothing that’s supposed to work the junk out of my trunk is gonna be easy.  What I didn’t know is that Wii the Jerk was going to degrade me while I was working out. What kind of crap is that!   And check out the happy Non-ABW in the Wii Fit advertisement. ...