Real Health Winter 2010
Real Health Winter 2010
In every issue of Real Health, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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Features
Against All Odds
What are the chances that a total stranger might save your life? Ask Natalie Cole.
Inside the Issue
Hepatitis ABCs
These viruses can cause cancer or liver disease years after you?re infected. But you can arm and protect yourself today.
What ’Eat Sensibly’ Means
Forget the superfoods hype. Our bodies need a variety of fresh, wholesome foods to function properly.
Fuel Up!
Hands down, most nutritionists agree these are the best food energy sources.
The Ice Queen
In real life, she helps young girls in Harlem, build their self-esteem and confidence as part of a laudable community skating program.
Lift Every Voice
Empower your daughter right now!
Hair I Am
Our hair is intricately entwined with our sense of self.
Stuff We Love
These products are worth every cent.
Cool Ways to Cover Up
Give your hair a color boost and say goodbye to gray.
You Shall Overcome
To break out of a rut and transform your life, cultivate positive affirmations amid the turmoil.
Let Healing Begin
After Garry Jones sought treatment for depression, he decided silence was not an option.
The Expert Says
For the almost 15 million adults living with depression, it can be a daily struggle to stay in touch with reality. Here Jon G. Allen, PhD, sen...
Let’s Face It
In the past, the notion of altering our God-given ethnic features was considered an affront to our blackness. But times are a changin’.
Financial AIDS
U.S. heterosexuals living in urban poverty- regardless of race or ethnicity- face alarming rates of HIV.
Waiting for Things to Gel
Now that studies show a vaginal microbicide can lower a woman’s risk of contracting HIV, when exactly can we get a prescription?
Too Grown Too Soon?
New research suggests children are starting puberty at an earlier age.
Ask the Sexpert
Sexologist Rachael L. Ross, MD, PhD, a.k.a. Dr. Rachael answers your questions.
Exercise Your Options
How to get a total body workout in less than one hour
Chair Lifts
And other innovative on-the-job workouts
What’cha Drinking?
The healthiest beverages to guzzle down
Big Diet Don’t
Sorry, missed meals won’t help you lose weight.
Eat More, Weigh Less
Sound too good to be true? Not really.
Editor’s Letter
It’s been said that if you don’t do things for yourself no one else will.
