Health

TOPS suggests spring activities for healthier living

Thursday, 11 March 2010 14:56

It’s been a long and stormy winter and snow has found its way to almost all of the 50 states. But, finally, spring is on its way. Daylight lasts longer, temperatures are getting warmer, and there’s more energy in the air. The start of a new season is a great time to renew weight-loss and fitness resolutions. TOPS Club, Inc. (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), the nonprofit weight-loss support organization, shares the following tips for springing into a healthier, active, better-for-you lifestyle.

Poll reveals sleep differences among ethnic groups

Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:01

The 2010 Sleep in America poll recently released by the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) reveals significant differences in the sleep habits and attitudes of Asians, Blacks/African Americans, Hispanics and Whites. It is the first poll to examine sleep among these four ethnic groups.

HIV/AIDS disparities in Blacks preventable

Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:00 Rebecca Nuttall, Special to the NNPA from the New Pittsburgh Courier

(NNPA) - Although the number of HIV infections is growing at an alarming rate throughout the Black community, African American women are the group most disproportionately affected. While representing only 12 percent of the U.S. female population, they account for 61 percent of all new HIV infections among women.

Wrong place, wrong time

Thursday, 04 March 2010 15:43 Marian Wright Edelman

When young Black men are the victims of violent injuries in their urban neighborhoods, what happens next? This question haunted Dr. John Rich, who was educated at Dartmouth, Duke, and Harvard, was a primary care doctor at Boston Medical Center, and was the founder of the city's Young Men's Health Clinic. In both settings he was in constant contact with young men who had been victims of violence, and of course he was deeply concerned about the physical scars he kept treating.

Sabathani gears up for largest food drive of the year

Thursday, 04 March 2010 15:40

It’s that time of year, and Sabathani is once again asking the community to help fill the stomachs of hungry children and adults who rely on its food shelf every day. Sabathani hopes to be a recipient of people responding to Minnesota FoodShare’s March Campaign, an annual effort focusing on the problems of hunger in communities across the state. Sabathani encourages individuals, schools, churches, businesses and civic groups to “be a superhero in the fight against hunger,” this year’s campaign giving slogan.

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