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Fresh off her SAG award win for best supporting actress, Octavia Spencer says her weight is a problem.
“I am not healthy at this weight,” the ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Honoree told People backstage at the SAG Awards. “Any time you have too much around the middle, then there is a problem. when you reach a certain weight, you are less valuable.”
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In 2006, Beyonce dropped 20 pounds in two weeks after participating in the “Master Cleanse/ Lemonade Diet” for her role as Deena Jones in the screen adaptation of “Dreamgirls.” The “Master Cleanse” is a 10-day fast (including an intake of only 1,300 calories), used for detoxing and weight loss purposes. With a couple of extra pounds added during her pregnancy, we wonder if King Bey will put on her cleats and
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Come winter, your skin, immunity system and energy levels take a hit, but eating these food will help you get back on track and feeling like yourself again!
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Eating sugar ages our skin via a process called “glycation,” in which the sugar attaches to protein fibers in our skin, making them stiff and inflexible.
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I Love Oprah! There’s so many words that can describe who and what she represents. I’ll share one, Regal. You can see the elevation of her mission and vision through all that she does. She never ceases to amazes me with her selfless acts of love and empowerment.
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It seems like our favorite shows and channels have painted a scary picture of black women that America is liking…Loud, Confrontational and Dramatic. Are we? And why when there’s 2 or more of us, its a big mess? Why is that?
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As a single, busy woman living in New York City, sick wasn’t a part of my vocabulary when I entered the last year of my 20s. Nonetheless, it soon found its way into my life.
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Are you concerned about the health of your bones as you age? Maybe the best way to treat those issues is to prevent them.
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Sometimes those extra 10 minutes of sleep we get from hitting the snooze button in the morning are not enough.
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I think we have all long known what John Gray put down in words in his bestseller, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: There are differences between the sexes, not just physically, but psychologically. And a new study being published in the May issue of Personality Individual Differences reinforces that belief.
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