Archive for October, 2010
Health and Fitness For Women
With all of the roles women are expected to play, health and fitness for women has become all the more important to consider. By realizing that being a mother, a partner, and a career woman are all exhausting tasks, you can see how a woman’s body might need more attention. But by also being more likely to care for everyone else but us, it’s not something that’s easily done. Here are ways that you can start to take charge of health and fitness for women – and more importantly, you.
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Hair We Go Again! – the African-American Woman’s Hair Raising Issue of Hair Vs. Health
The hair issue seems to be raising its ugly head again. With the recent release of the new Chris Rock film Good Hair the conversation again turns towards the importance that black women place on their crowning glories. The amount of money that women, black women in particular, spend on their hair according to the film is staggering. We spend billions to have our hair fried, dyed and laid to the side as they used to say, and because of that, we are NOT going to mess it up. I know women who have claimed to develop awkward sleeping positions, like propping pillows up behind them, so that they could sleep sitting up. Or one young lady I know who claims to sleep with her head hanging off the bed so that she doesn’t smoosh her do. I for one like a good night’s sleep, so I’m not about to allow a style to get in the way of my dreamtime, so the most that I will do is to sleep on a pillow with a satin cover or pull it up at night with a satin scrunchie. Yes fashionistas, I did say scrunchie, and mind you, it’s only for sleeping and doesn’t go outside of the house.
In that same vein, a hairstyle has never kept me from the gym or my regular workouts. My personal stylist is very used to me saying to her, make it cute enough to last me a day, because it won’t make it past the week-end. And many of my colleagues who see me with a straightened style know not to get used to it ’cause it won’t look like this tomorrow.