Article: Slim Down Sister; the African-American Woman's Guide to Healthy Permanent Weight Loss

Article: Results of a Faith-Based Weight Loss Intervention ...
Journal of the National Medical Association;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... these risks, weight loss programs designed for black women have yielded ... faith-based weight loss program for black women. The goals of ... tailored pilot weight loss intervention ... overweight and obese black women.26 Women who ...

Article: Racial differences found in response to diet-induced ...
Women's Health Weekly;  December 26, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... writer - After a weight-loss diet, black women became less fit ... diet-induced weight loss, the black women became less fit ... capacity and AEE of black women decreased significantly ... diet-induced weight loss, white women had ...

Article: Physical activity levels after weight loss differ ...
Health & Medicine Week;  October 28, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Although both white and black women said they had become more active since weight loss, the black women's AEE had decreased ... overweight white and black women: Divergent responses ... to diet-induced weight loss. Am J Clin Nutr ...

Article: Black women at major risk for obesity-related ...
South African Medical Journal;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... perceptions among obese black women that they are underweight ... with the gradient for black women the steepest. Less surprising ... growing number of young black women in gyms who were 'as weight (loss) conscious as their white ...

Article: Physician Offers Sane, Smart Weight-Loss Plan
Portland Skanner;  December 12, 2001 ;     299 words ... ... Physician Offers Sane, Smart Weight-Loss Plan Obesity is a problem for ... for higher rates of obesity in Black women," says George Edmond Smith, a physician and author of "Weight Loss for African American Women: An ...

Article: Physical activity is key to maintaining normal weight after ...
Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week;  April 20, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... at maintaining their weight loss was their level of physical ... premenopausal white or black women, ages 20 to 46 years ... obese after a successful weight loss. All subjects were ... normal body weight after weight loss. In an accompanying ...

Article: Pressures keep some black women from working out.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO);  March 2, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Beautiful was to help black women get into shape, be healthy ... wanted for her clients: black women. "They told me they ... role in interfering with weight-loss efforts. The association ... says that 78 percent of black women are overweight, and ...