One Food You Won’t See At The Obama White House
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Posted Nov. 25, 2008 – There’s one food you most likely won’t see at the dinner table at the Obama White House: beets. It appears that the future first family is not a fan of the hearty red vegetable. Barack Obama, according to the Seattle Times, apparently has an aversion to beets. “I always avoid eating them,” he says. But beets happen to be a “super food,” one of those vitamin-rich vegetables that packs a lot of nutrients into one bite. While you probably won’t have to worry too much about whether the Obamas are getting the nutrients they need – they reportedly have sophisticated pallets and eat a variety of foods – you might want to consider incorporating more super foods into your own diet. “Ten Super Foods You Should Be Eating” can be found at BET.com/Body & Soul.
shows how vulnerable we are to kidney disease, and how important it is not to get it. Best known for the 1993 hit “Gotta Get Mine” that featured Tupac Shakur, the Michigan hip-hop artist died in his sleep of kidney failure over the weekend at age 37. He’d been on a kidney transplant list since collapsing earlier this year. But it’s a well-known fact that Blacks suffer from higher rates of kidney disease and failure than other ethnic groups.
Posted Nov. 20, 2008 – Smoking hits African Americans hard. So, today – Great American Smokeout Day — is one more chance for us to do what we can to fight back. This event, sponsored by the American Cancer Society, gives smokers one day a year to focus on putting the cigarette butts out and not lighting up if only for one day. The hope is that that one smoke-free day will turn into two days, and then three, and so on until finally the smoker quit. But anyone who has ever lit up a cigarette knows it ain’t that easy. 
Posted Nov. 19, 2008 - Keep the gospel playing on your iPod or throw on a little Beyoncé. and sit back and relax, knowing that your blood vessels are expanding wide open, letting the blood flow freely. Turns out that hearing a joyful noise does the heart good. In fact, nothing could be healthier for your heart, a new study suggests. “Listening to music that makes you feel good may also be a good preventive measure for heart health,” said study author Dr. Michael Miller, director of the Center for Preventive Cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center, in Baltimore 
Posted Oct. 31, 2008 – The economic crisis is enough to scare the boo out of Halloween. It can also trigger sleeplessness and feelings of worry and dread . With all the news about mortgage foreclosures, stagnant house sales and evaporating jobs, it’s no wonder that more people are finding it harder to sleep. Now might be the time to destress and focus on what really matters.If there were ever a time to strengthen one’s spirituality, it’s now, experts say. Faith has gotten many people through crises before, and I’m sure it still works. There are some other everyday tools you can use, too. “Try to keep things in perspective,” says Dr. Barbara Brown, a Washington, D.C., psychologist.
you’re being tempted to stock your treat bowls with all sorts of sweet. Hold up! There are other ways to do Halloween, that are healthy, but still keep it hot. There are all sorts of ways to sneak in a little bit of health by adding nuts, fruits and pumpkin to muffins and packaged treats. In fact, you don’t have to give out eatables at all. You can find eight Healthy Halloween alternatives at 
Posted Oct. 22, 2008 – Staph infection, which I mentioned earlier is increasingly becoming a problem nationwide among young athletes and fitness enthusiasts, has most likely ruined the promising career of a popular University of North Carolina-Asheville basketball player – the nation’s tallest b-baller Kenny George. The young 7-foot-9, 375-pound center who received acclaim for his size and play last season, had part of his right foot amputated due to a rare staph infection. The senior from Chicago, who last year lead the nation in blocked shots per game, had at least two surgeries and other procedures after his right foot became infected at a summer camp for big men in Las Vegas. But the surgery that disabled him also saved his life, doctors say.
Posted Oct. 16, 2008 – She’s not pregnant. She’s not faking. And she’s not splitting with longtime boyfriend Jermaine Dupri. There is a legitimate reason why Janet Jackson got sick, was hospitalized and had to cancel part of her tour. Jackson has been suffering from a rare kind of migraine – vestibular migraine – that are linked to vertigo, says her manager. So, now, maybe, the whisper campaign can stop.
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campaign coming to a heated end, it’s hard to tell fact from fiction. And yet, we all want to make the best choice for our health and the health of our families. Well, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation has taken some of the guesswork out of that decision. The foundation has developed tools that allow you to size up your candidate, issue-by-issue: where he stands on everything from his overall 