I’m proud of actor Quinton Aaron for making a personal pledge to lose weight after he was kicked off a US Airways flight for taking…
In the United States, fat-shaming and fat-phobia are as American as apple pie. While the Black community is more likely to embrace obesity as curvy, that…
Michelle Obama has a new focus for her anti-childhood obesity campaign and it involves pulling out your apron and cookbook! During a recent speech at…
03/05/14- Why is Huggy Lowdown so excited about the fifth of March? Find out after you listen! Plus, he gives his two cents on the…
It’s a shame that some black folks spend too much time ridiculing each other when there are a myriad of critical issues that need our…
First lady Michelle Obama believes in talking to kids about the importance of good food and exercise. But she avoids discussing weight with her daughters, she said in a”Fireside Hangout” hosted by Kelly Ripa on Google+ Monday. Speaking from the White House, Mrs. Obama answered questions from four adult participants, as well as an entire third […]
Last week Beyoncé and Pepsi announced a $50 million endorsement deal that would include standard advertising as well as a multimillion-dollar fund to support the singer’s chosen creative products. Today, Michael F. Jacobson, the executive director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest released an open letter asking the pop icon to back […]
The U.S. Army is trimming the fat, due to the alarming number of soldiers who are grossly overweight. Why? Because the battle of the bulge has…
(Via Health Day News) – The link between chronic stress and weight gain is much stronger in black girls than white girls, and may help explain why black girls are more likely to be overweight than white girls, according to a new study. In the United States, the obesity rate in blacks is 50 percent […]
A larger African-American woman — is she more attractive to stressed men? © Samuel Borges – Fotolia.com From Frugivore: In the latest edition of “throw a big girl a bone” news, a new study recently released by researchers from the University of Westminster in London has found that our tanking economy is actually good news […]
Alice Randall has written and interesting essay/article for the NY Times on fat black women. Randall notes that FOUR out of five black women are seriously overweight. And one out of four middle-aged black women has diabetes. She thinks what’s really needed is a body-culture revolution in black America. Why? Because too many experts who are […]
African-Americans frequently look towards race and economic factors as our biggest challenges, but there are self-inflicted problems that are literally killing us. The recent and untimely deaths of Heavy D and Patrice O’Neal has made the health issues that arise from being overweight very hard to ignore. According to HuffPost, obesity is a “full-blown crisis […]
