Category : Parenting/ Health

Living with HER2+, ER+ Breast Cancer: Strategies When Surgery Isn’t an Option

Receiving a diagnosis of HER2+ and ER+ breast cancer that has spread or cannot be surgically removed can feel overwhelming, but understanding the condition and your options can help you navigate this challenging journey. Understanding HER2+ and ER+...

10 Incredible Health Benefits Of Kalonji Seeds

If you haven’t heard of kalonji seeds, you may miss out on some of their excellent health benefits. Though these seeds have been used in herbal medicine for a while, it wasn’t until recently that researchers started to study them. More studies need t...

15 Triggers Of Occupational Asthma

When most people hear about asthma, they’re likely to think about children. Though asthma is usually diagnosed before a certain age, adults can develop the condition if they’ve been exposed to specific triggers. These triggers can lead to what is kn...

3-Minute Mini-Workout To Start Your Day

Are you ready for the best 3-minute workouts to start your day? Whoever said that a gut-busting, sweaty workout has to be long was wrong! As a matter of fact, if you do it right, all your workouts can be focused, targeted, and quick. Each move in th...

The 7 Most Common Weight Loss Mistakes

There are many weight loss mistakes that are often overlooked. The road to losing weight can be a very bumpy and frustrating one. As people reach obstacles and hit potholes, they tend to become discouraged. For all the different people there are in...

The Importance of Mutual Respect in College Relationships: Creating a Positive Foundation

When thinking about the word “Respect” sometimes we often take that word for granted. “Many people could say you get respect where you give respect,” which is an agreeable statement. As a college student, “respect”...

How To Protect Your Child From Common Asthma Triggers

Breathing toxic fumes isn’t safe for anyone, but pollution in the environment may harm children more than adults. Growing children eat more, drink more and breathe more in proportion to their body size compared to adults. Thus, children face t...

HIV Treatment: Your Guide to Managing Side Effects

Starting HIV treatment can bring a mix of hope and uncertainty. While these medications are essential for managing the virus and maintaining your health, they can also come with side effects. Understanding how to manage these side effect...

5 Medication Tips to Keep You Safe as You Age

When settling into your senior years, you need to be especially careful when taking medicines, herbal remedies and supplements, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says. That’s because older adults are likely to use more prescription and over-t...

Are Artificial Sweeteners Making Weight Loss HARDER?

Struggling to shed those pesky pounds and reclaim the slimmer days of your youth? Cutting back on sugar and salt, and still can’t stand the number on the scale? If you find you’re making all the right moves, but the weight loss just isn’t there, the...

BAEcation: Top 5 Places You Should See Together

Every vacation includes two things, food, and discovery. Add a bit of love to that equation and watch it transform your experience to a new level. Places you’ve been to time and time again will show you new colors, the delicacies will taste even swe...

6 Ways to Establish Black Patient Trust in Clinical Trials, According to a Cardiologist

I’m a clinician and professor at Rush University Hospital working in the up-and-coming field of cardio-oncology. My interest in clinical trial research came from my time as a cardiology fellow at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Now, I carr...

Milk: Animal or Plant – Which is Best?

Today, your milk mustache may not come from drinking a glass of dairy milk. There are so many milk options readily available at your supermarket and just as many homemade milk recipes online. With all of the debate over whether drinking milk, from an...

Alabama House + Senate Pass Measure to Protect IVF

The Alabama House and Senate have passed a bill that would protect in virto fertilization, also known as IVF, following weeks of turmoil after an unprecedented ruling in the Alabama Supreme Court. According to The Hill, the bill will “provide civil...

Celebrating Black History Month, Today

Me and my sister, the lovely, Jeryn Turner& As Black History month comes to an end, I am reflective about what it means historically and what it means now. Historically, Black History month was created to be a national celebration to recognize and c...