Category Archives: Food for Thought

BPA’s Obesity And Diabetes Link Strengthened By New Study

i.huffpost.com/gen/500903/thumbs/s-BPA-AND-OBESITY-large.jpg www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/bpa-chemical-hormone-obesity-diabetes_n_1276996.html   By Lynne Peeples/Huffington Post The modern lifestyle of super-sized french fries and couch potatoes often takes the blame for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes in the U.S. — perhaps rightly so. But growing evidence suggests another factor in the dual epidemics: modern chemicals. Exposure to even minuscule amounts of synthesized …

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You Are What You Eat

www.maamasfood.com   In order to talk about one’s health, one must seriously consider how what one’s eating is affecting one’s health.  The adage that "You are what you eat" is oftentimes true.  Science has revealed that what we eat either results in a healthy or a diseased body.  Hence, many are now turning to organic …

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Too little protein may equal too much body fat

www.cnn.com/2012/01/03/health/too-little-protein-too-much-fat/index.html   People who are overweight should consume adequate protein and focus on improving their ratio of body fat to lean muscle (Health.com) — People who consistently consume more calories than they burn each day will lose lean muscle and accumulate body fat more easily if their diets contain too little protein and too much …

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Doctor brain drain costs Africa $2 billion

By Kate Kelland | Reuters – Fri, Nov 25, 2011 LONDON (Reuters) – Sub-Saharan African countries that invest in training doctors have ended up losing $2 billion as the expert clinicians leave home to find work in more prosperous developed nations, researchers said on Friday. A study by Canadian scientists found that South Africa and Zimbabwe suffer …

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AFRICANS BEING ALL THAT THEY CAN BE!

  www.ugandandiaspora.com/nasa%E2%80%99s-first-black-mission-control-flight-director-is-ugandan Kwatsi Alibaruho, the first African-American to lead Mission Control at NASA will be among the entrepreneurs, diplomats, tourists, academicians, philanthropists, and agents of technology transfer who will be honored this year during The Ugandan Diaspora Social Networking Event. The first African-American to lead Mission Control is working shifts as a flight director for the …

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BRING YOUR A-GAME!

Take the time to watch the video with your children! http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/bring_your_a_game Bring Your A Game Synopsis To generate a national conversation on the plight of Black men and boys, the Twenty-First Century Foundation (21CF) has partnered with actor-director Mario Van Peebles and producer Karen Williams to create BRING YOUR A GAME – a groundbreaking documentary …

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TIA – This is Africa

(Thought Leader, Mail & Guardian) – “This is Africa” (TIA) is used in the context of what is perceived to be “African” versus “unAfrican”. For this article, unAfrican includes, but is not limited to, systems that work, clean places and timeliness. African, however, is dirty, tardy and disorganised. Even though I surround myself with Afro-optimists, …

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