Must Know Facts about Heart Disease in African American Women

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 never too let to make an effort to lower your risk. It’s important for all women to know their risk factors, but it’s even more important for minority women.

Statistics on death rates show that an African American woman’s risk is almost forty points higher than a Caucasian woman’s risk. Race is a factor that you can’t change, but there are many factors that you can change. Whether you smoke, how you eat, and how much exercise you get all have a lot to do with your chances of getting heart disease. Those are things you can control.

By quitting smoking, eating healthier meals, and making sure that you get at least a moderate amount of exercise, you can help to protect your heart.

What All African Americans Need to Know About Diabetes

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 damage. If you get tested and are found to have diabetes, there are ways you can manage the disease, and good management leads to a strong reduction in problems associated with diabetes. You shouldn’t panic if your African American. It doesn’t mean that you’ll develop diabetes. But because your risk is higher you should know the facts, learn about the possibilities, and make sure that you see your doctor on a regular basis to be tested for diabetes.

Catching it early and dealing with it then is much, much easier and better for you in the long run than waiting until you already have problems with it, some of which might not be so easily fixed.

Damn those Adenosine Receptors

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’ve already got to be careful of diabetes and now according to some scientists’ research, I’m going to have a tougher time losing weight than a white chick because of my damn adenosine receptors.

Here’s the gist of the research:

28 women scheduled for gastric bypass surgery agreed to let doctors take fat samples from them during surgery.

Researchers then studied the extracted fat from the 14 obese white women and 14 obese black women.  The scientists were especially interested in the cellular receptors in the fat tissue. The receptors acted as a holding zone for a chemical called adenosine and curb fat breakdown.

And here’s the kicker… The researchers found that the obese black women had more adenosine receptors in their deep abdominal fat than the obese white women.

Women of color just can’t get a break.  I’d like to punch those receptors in their fat storing faces!

Wii Fit is a Jerk

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.  What it doesn’t show you is that her man is in the background laughing & pointing at the jerk comments Wii Fit is making at your expense.

I do have to give Wii jerk credit though, I am sore and in pain.  Who the hell knew doing a pretend Hoola-Hoop could make you this exhausted.

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