(BlackDocotor.org) -- You have the best intentions to take care of yourself, right? But invariably something gets in the way--the demands on a sistah never cease!
Now more than ever, you must learn to set yourself as a priority. To pace yourself--to avoid being overloaded, overwhelmed, overtired, and overlooked. Preserving your most precious resource--your health--is a responsibility that only you can do for yourself. And without good health, everything else falters. How do you do this?
(BlackDoctor.org) -- Cranberry juice, long dissed as a mere folk remedy for relieving urinary tract infections in women, is finally getting some respect.
Thanks to Prof. Itzhak Ofek, a researcher at Tel Aviv University's Sackler Faculty of Medicine, the world now knows that science supports the folklore. Prof. Ofek's research on the tart berry over the past two decades shows that its juice indeed combats urinary tract infections.
And, he's discovered, the refreshing red beverage has additional
(BlackDoctor.org) -- When it comes to beauty and looking your age, black women are very lucky. Because of darker skin pigmentation and the heightened amount of melanin in the skin of women of color, there is a minimum amount of flaws and imperfections that appear with the coming of age, such as: crow’s feet, wrinkles and sagging skin. And even though we know that weight gain knows no race, women of color wear their weight differently; usually in the lower half of the body, and at times this too can increase with each
(BlackDoctor.org) -- When it first hit the market over 40 years ago, the Pill was the most popular means of preventing pregnancy in America. Today, remembering to take a tiny pill every day at the same time can be almost impossible for the on-the-go woman. Because of this, some women wonder whether a permanent solution such as tubal ligation or Essure coils is preferable, particularly if they have decided not to have any more children.
Tubal ligation, which became common in the 1960s, is the
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(BlackDocotor.org) -- You have the best intentions to take care of yourself, right? But invariably something gets in the way--the demands on a sistah never cease!
(BlackDoctor.org) -- Cranberry juice, long dissed as a mere folk remedy for relieving urinary tract infections in women, is finally getting some respect.
(BlackDoctor.org) -- When it comes to beauty and looking your age, black women are very lucky. Because of darker skin pigmentation and the heightened amount of melanin in the skin of women of color, there is a minimum amount of flaws and imperfections that appear with the coming of age, such as: crow’s feet, wrinkles and sagging skin. And even though we know that weight gain knows no race, women of color wear their weight differently; usually in the lower half of the body, and at times this too can increase with each
(BlackDoctor.org) -- When it first hit the market over 40 years ago, the Pill was the most popular means of preventing pregnancy in America. Today, remembering to take a tiny pill every day at the same time can be almost impossible for the on-the-go woman. Because of this, some women wonder whether a permanent solution such as tubal ligation or Essure coils is preferable, particularly if they have decided not to have any more children. 