In 1995, I was 19 years old with two children, a boy 3 years old and a new born daughter. I was on food stamps and WIC giving my babies what I thought was the most nutritional food available. I had quit school in the 9th grade and was basically uneducated in many...

If you’re scared about drinking tap water again, hold your horses before running to bottled water. In reality it isn’t even guaranteed that it’s safer or healthier than tap water. Here’s why. 1. Bottled water is less regulated than tap water We’re programmed to think...

Excerpted from The Hood Health Handbook: A Practical Guide to Health and Wellness in the Urban Community, Vol 2 A “panic attack” is one of those conditions, like depression, that we just don’t like to talk about in the hip-hop community. We associate “panicking” with...