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		<title>Damn those Adenosine Receptors</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always watching the National Geographic channel specials and I just can&#8217;t understand why black men &#38; 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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img style="border: 0pt none; margin: 5px;" title="Damn the Scientist &amp; Their Research" src="http://www.theabw.net/images/mad_scientist.png" alt="Weight Loss Gets Harder for Black Women" width="200" height="187" align="left" />I&#8217;m always watching the National Geographic channel specials and I just can&#8217;t understand why black men &amp; 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.</p>
<p>So what is it about my dark skin that makes scientists keep finding more messed up stuff.</p>
<p>Being an overweight black woman, I&#8217;ve already got to be careful of diabetes and now according to some scientists&#8217; research, I&#8217;m going to have a tougher time losing weight than a white chick because of my damn adenosine receptors.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the gist of the research:</p>
<p>28 women scheduled for gastric bypass surgery agreed to let doctors take fat samples from them during surgery.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Women of color just can’t get a break.  I’d like to punch those receptors in their fat storing faces!</p>
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		<title>Wii Fit is a Jerk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s supposed to work the junk out of my trunk is gonna be easy.  What I didn&#8217;t know is that Wii the Jerk was going to degrade [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img style="border: 0pt none; margin: 5px;" src="http://www.theabw.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/wii-fit.png" alt="wii-fit" width="200" height="213" align="left" />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&#8217;s supposed to work the junk out of my trunk is gonna be easy.  What I didn&#8217;t know is that Wii the Jerk was going to degrade me while I was working out.</p>
<p>What kind of crap is that!   And check out the happy Non-ABW in the Wii Fit advertisement.  What it doesn&#8217;t show you is that her man is in the background laughing &amp; pointing at the jerk comments Wii Fit is making at your expense.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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