10 Tips to Increase Bone Strength

Bones are quite literally the support system of the body, so it’s super important to keep them strong and healthy. Bones are continuously being broken down and rebuilt in tiny amounts. Before about age 30, when bones typically reach peak bone mass (which varies from person to person), the body is creating new bone faster, but after age 30, the bone building balance naturally shifts and more bone is lost than gained.

Read more: 10 Ways to Build Healthy Bones (and Keep Them Strong) | TIME.com http://healthland.time.com/2012/10/09/10-ways-to-build-healthy-bones-and-keep-them-strong/#ixzz2nCD7wAaI

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5 Foods for Brain Health

1: Nuts

Nuts contain monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats to keep your arteries clear, as well as levels of precursors of serotonin to boost mood. One ounce a day is just right; more is fine, but remember to be careful of calorie overload – an ounce is about twelve walnuts or twenty-four almonds.

RealAge Difference: Men: 3.3 years younger, Women: 4.4 years younger

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Dying for Straight Hair: The Danger of Relaxers for African Women

“Take the kinks out of your mind…instead of out of your hair.” – Marcus Garvey

There is a plethora of science-backed concerns about Black hair products.  The chemicals used in Black hair products such as relaxers, enter the body through the scalp, particularly when there is a  burn or cut on the skin (this includes non-lye relaxers). They upset the internal chemical balance which leads to complications.

These topical applications can also cause chemical burns or blindness. Black hair care products (relaxers in particular),  have been linked to ailments such as reproductive problems, fibroids, heart disease, cognitive disorders, cancers, early puberty, altered immune systems and other health risks. Many of these health risks are life-threatening and therefore should not be ignored by African women.

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See also:  Can a Sista Get Some Love?:  Dark-Skinned Women in the Media

 

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DNA from a cave in Russia adds a mysterious new member to the human family

…another breed of the same human species…

In the back of the cave is a small side chamber, and it was there that a young Russian archaeologist named Alexander Tsybankov was digging one day in July 2008, in deposits believed to be 30,000 to 50,000 years old, when he came upon a tiny piece of bone. It was hardly promising: a rough nubbin about the size and shape of a pebble you might shake out of your shoe. Later, after news of the place had spread, a paleoanthropologist I met at Denisova described the bone to me as the “most unspectacular fossil I’ve ever seen. It’s practically depressing.” Still, it was a bone. Tsybankov bagged it and put it in his pocket to show a paleontologist back at camp.

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Did Ancient Egypt Visit Australia?

…a little black-to-black history…

There about 250 stone carvings that have been part of the local Australian folklore of the area for nearly a century with reports of people who sighted them as far back as the early 1900′s. The site was secretly visited by families “in the know” in the 1950′s and fell back into local mythology for a couple of decades until it was accidentally rediscovered by a man looking for his lost dog. The Egyptian carvings in Australia are just down the road from us at Kariong, NSW.

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The REAL ‘Lone Ranger’ was African-American

Another example of pale people grafting themselves onto melanated people’s history.

The real “Lone Ranger,” it turns out, was an African American man named Bass Reeves, who the legend was based upon. Perhaps not surprisingly, many aspects of his life were written out of the story, including his ethnicity. The basics remained the same: a lawman hunting bad guys, accompanied by a Native American, riding on a white horse, and with a silver trademark.

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Surprising Facts about the Irish and Sex

“When it came to matters of love Edmund Spencer, the Elizabethan poet, was appalled by Irish men, who were in the main, he wrote, a bunch of lascivious bisexuals who offered themselves freely to both women and men before his shocked gaze…”

“According to Yale historian John Boswell, the early Christian church in Ireland included widely performed sacraments and marriage rites for men, which means that the first instances of same-sex marriages were held in Ireland.”

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