The colors of fruits and vegetable hints at their nutrients. Paint a palette each day to get the nutrients you need. THE GREENS Green vegetables contain chlorophyll, fiber, lutein, zeaxanthin, calcium, folate, vitamin C, calcium, and Beta-carotene. The nutrients found in these vegetables reduce cancer risks, lower blood pressure and LDL cholesterol levels, normalize digestion [...]
Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
February 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Please remember that today is Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. As a community it is important for us to arm ourselves with accurate information on HIV and AIDS and how our people are being affected. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly half of all new infections are in African-Americans, who make up [...]
Go Red
February 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
As we know, today is National Wear Red Day, this is an ongoing campaign. Here are some interesting facts about disease among women. *Coronary heart disease is the No#1 killer of women over age 20. Cardiovascular disease kills about 460,000 women a year. *While one in 30 American women die of breast cancer, almost one [...]
National Child Passenger Safety Week 2009
February 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Motor vehicle crashes are the number one killer of children ages 2-14. “The use of belt-positioning booster seats lowers the risk of injury to children in crashes by 59 percent compared to the use of vehicle seat belts.” The finding comes from a study of children ages 4 through 7 by Partners for Child Passenger [...]
National Wear Red Day
February 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Participate in National Wear Red Day on Friday, February 6: Wear Red to Support Women and Heart Disease Awareness Friday, February 6, 2009, is National Wear Red Day—a day when Americans nationwide will take women’s health to heart by wearing red to show their support for women’s heart disease awareness. Although significant progress has been [...]
The After Effects
January 29, 2009 By 6 Comments
Life After Abortion
January 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Please read the following information about the risks associated with abortion: http://www.unfairchoice.info/pdf/FactSheets/PhysicalRisks.pdf http://www.unfairchoice.info/pdf/FactSheets/PsychologicalRisks.pdf If you have had an abortion or thinking about abortion, please go to the following websites: http://www.abortionrecovery.org/home/tabid/295/Default.aspx http://www.abortionchangesyou.com/home http://www.afterabortion.org/ http://www.care-net.org/ http://www.abortionfacts.com/ http://healingafter.org/
Saved Alive
January 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
We all remember the story in Exodus that gives the details of how Israel and his sons were invited by Pharaoh to settle in the most fertile part of Egypt. God blessed them, giving them more than they needed. “The Israelites were fruitful and prolific;they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was [...]
Abortion and The Black Community
January 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Minority Abortions Abortion, by the numbers, is a racist institution. How so? Because abortion kills a far greater percentage of minority children in America than it does white children. The Alan Guttmacher fact sheet, Facts in Brief, reveals that, “Black women are more than 3 times as likely as white women to have an [...]
Life Begins At Conception
January 20, 2009 By 1 Comment
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