Eating out? Healthier meals for kids
Black Health Matters - According to the National Restaurant Association, 30,000 restaurants nationwide are part of the association’s Kids LiveWell program that helps parents and children choose healthy meal items when dining out...
Breakthrough for sickle cell disease?
theGRIO REPORT - After more than three decades of studying life-threatening sickle cell disease, the most prevalent of all hereditary illnesses, University of Michigan Medical School researchers have discovered that an anti-depressant wipes out the disorder in lab-tested human blood and mice...
Child abuse linked to asthma in black women
BLACKDOCTOR.ORG - Physical and/or sexual abuse may be potential asthma causes in black women. In fact, abuse may more than double the odds of a child having asthma...
Make the Affordable Care Act pay off for you
theGRIO REPORT - Now that the Affordable Health Care Act is law, consumers can start exploring health insurance plans that will suit their needs and budgets, protect their rights, and lower the cost to tax payers...
First lady Michelle Obama praises food industry
WASHINGTON (AP) - Michelle Obama praised the food industry on Friday for its efforts to market healthier foods but said more needs to be done...
Cory Booker, ex-senator Bill Frist team up to fight childhood obesity
theGRIO REPORT - Former Tennessee Republican senator Bill Frist and Democratic mayor Cory Booker of Newark acted as honorary vice chairmen of Partnership for a Healthier America, a non-profit organization that's on a mission to fight childhood obesity...
First lady Michelle Obama holds her first Google+ hangout
theGRIO REPORT - Yesterday, First lady Michelle Obama held what the White House is dubbing a “Fireside Hangout” to continue her whirlwind celebration of the third anniversary of Let's Move!...
Black male doctors: Becoming extinct?
theGRIO REPORT - When Vince Wilson, 44, was in his early 20s, he considered being a doctor, yet his own insecurities held him back...
First lady 'Let's Move' fitness campaign targets 50,000 schools
theGRIO REPORT - First lady Michelle Obama on Thursday announced the launch of a program that will bring her 'Let's Move!' campaign to some 50,000 U.S. schools...
Michelle Obama wins over Mississippi
theGRIO REPORT - In a country that in recent years has become almost defined by political polarization, it's hard to imagine more unexpected partners than the deeply red state of Mississippi and Michelle Obama....
