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Your Wealth is your Health - (NEW)
Before we can gain strong economic power, reclaim our youth, and join together in unity, we must first take a look at our health. What good is it to gain the whole world if we die at age 49 of a heart attack? For example, consider Reginald F. Lewis. He acquired millions became the richest Black man in history, structured the largest leveraged buyout ever of an international company- and died six years later of brain cancer at the age of 44. The true wealth is in changing our health for the better. All diseases are preventable. We can have it all and maintain our health at the same time, but we must reexamine our eating habits and lifestyle. In this article we will explore the benefits of drinking water.

Death by Medicine
Natural medicine is under siege, as pharmaceutical company lobbyists urge lawmakers to deprive Americans of the benefits of dietary supplements. Drug-company front groups have launched slanderous media campaigns to discredit the value of healthy lifestyles. The FDA continues to interfere with those who offer natural products that compete with prescription drugs.

So You're an Environmentalist; Why Are You Still Eating Meat
There has never been a better time for environmentalists to become vegetarians. Evidence of the environmental impacts of a meat-based diet is piling up at the same time its health effects are becoming better known. Meanwhile, full-scale industrialized factory farming -- which allows diseases to spread quickly as animals are raised in close confinement -- has given rise to recent, highly publicized epidemics of meat-borne illnesses. At press time, the first discovery of mad cow disease in a Tokyo suburb caused beef prices to plummet in Japan and many people to stop eating meat.

White Poison: The Horrors of Milk
Got milk? If not, then thank your lucky stars. Because if you do, medical research shows that you are likely to be plagued by anemia, migraine, bloating, gas, indigestion, asthma, prostate cancer, and a host of potentially fatal allergies -- especially if you are a person of color.

The Hazards Of Refined Sugar Consumption

The purpose of this discussion is to give a comprehensive assessment of beet and cane sugar; providing information with regard to its chemical and physical properties as well as view its source and uses historically.  Most of all we want to examine the effects of sugar and other sweeteners during human consumption; making a clear distinction as to the nutritional value of sugars in whole foods as opposed to the detrimental effects that so-called “refined” sugar has on health and vitality.  Finally, this presentation will offer suggestions for alternatives to sugar as well as suggestions for removing refined sugar from our diet.

Black Community In Israel Beats High Blood Pressure \ Study Credits Clean Lifestyle

Their families had the history of hypertension and coronary artery disease so common among black people. But 204 black people who moved to Israel and converted to low-fat, low-salt food, no smoking and regular exercise turned that around.  Only 6 percent had high blood pressure - a condition found in 30 percent of all black people in this country. And, while half of all black women and 32 percent of all black men in this country are obese, that was true of less than 5 percent in the African Hebrew Israelite community.