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[2022]
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English
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"Thomas Fisher was raised on the South Side of Chicago and even as a kid understood how close death could feel-he came from a family of pioneering doctors who believed in staying in the community, but on those streets he saw just how vulnerable Black bodies could be. Determined to follow his family's legacy, Fisher studied public health at Dartmouth and Harvard, then returned to the University of Chicago Medical School. As soon as he graduated, he...
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Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"The first book to tell the full story of race and health in America today, showing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation, by a groundbreaking journalist at the New York Times Magazine"--Provided by publisher.
In 2018, Linda Villarosa's New York Times Magazine article on maternal and infant mortality among black mothers and babies in America caused an awakening. Hundreds of studies had previously established a link between...
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Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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With attitude and inspiration, this lifestyle guide shows black women how they can be healthy, hippy, and happy by eating plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and legumes as part of an active lifestyle. African American women face a health crisis and explosive rates of death and disability from heart disease, stroke, and diabetes, and this book provides authoritative research to illustrate how a plant-based diet can reverse this trend....
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Publisher
Square One Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"In Black Health Matters, Dr. Richard W. Walker examples the most common problems facing African Americans today--including diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, kidney failure, and more--explains the causes, and offers solutions in the form of healthy diet, exercise, nutritional supplements, and other lifestyle changes. The issue of racism in health is also addressed"--
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Publisher
[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Are You Struggling To Keep Your Hair Moisturized?
If your answer is yes, this book is for you. It's most likely that you're natural and you've been looking for solutions that will help your hair to stay moisturized for more than two seconds.
Believe me...I've been there. I myself have dry and kinky hair, and I know what it's like to search for solutions try and relieve the dryness.
It can be quite annoying: trying
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Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Black men desperately need care and restoration. But what does that restoration look like when you're a Black man in today's world? How do you take care of your mental health when men who look like you die at the hands of police? How do you find peace and refuge when you're not sure how to keep up with your partner? Or navigate a challenging workplace? While scrolling through social media feeds, you may feel like you don't have access to wellness...
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Publisher
Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Brooklyn Borough President and mayoral candidate Eric Adams is on a mission to tackle one of the most stubborn health problems in the country: chronic disease in the African American community. African Americans are heavier and sicker than any other group in the U.S., with nearly half of all black adults suffering from some form of cardiovascular disease. After Adams woke up with severe vision loss one day in 2016, he learned that he was one of the...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"An interactive and empowering book" to help African American men and women create a new vision of better health and navigate the health care system (BET.com).
According to the federal Office of Minority Health, African Americans "are affected by serious diseases and health conditions at far greater rates than other Americans." In fact, African Americans suffer an estimated 85,000 excess deaths every year from diseases we know how to prevent: heart...
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Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"This book examines how deep structural racism embedded in the fabric of American society leads to worse health outcomes and lower life expectancy for people of color. By presenting evidence of discrimination in housing, education, employment, and the criminal justice system, Dayna Bowen Matthew shows how racial inequality pervades American society and the multitude of ways that this undermines the health of minority populations. The author provides...
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Wellness Publications LLC
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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Black Gene Lies: Slave Quarter Cures, is a landmark expose that shows that the diseases of the Black population in America, which the medical community attributes to a terrible "Black gene," are in fact caused by regional and cultural eating habits and nutritional deficiencies of trace elements that are easily, safely and economically overcome by the use of simple nutritional supplement program and herbal remedies. There are many diseases that appear...
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