We’ve all heard people say they can’t work out because they don’t have time to go to the gym or they don’t have any equipment. Well, in an effort to stick to our resolutions this year, especially after eating all that V-Day candy, Clutch is going to help you cut out the excuses! No matter whether you…
I will admit sometimes I get the urge to have a cigarette. I’m not sure what it’s about, but when I’m standing around a group of people drinking and inhaling their secondhand smoke, it causes that urge. In college I discovered cloves and bidis, what I now refer to as hipster cigarettes. I even keep…
Two spunky women are seeking to break the myth about how black women interact with fitness. Ellen and Lana Ector have transformed their popular group exercise classes into a home workout tape that women can use at home. The Atlanta-based mother-and-daughter fitness duo have put together “Black Girls Workout Too”, an exercise program that pushes females to…
After feeling pain in her chest and shortness of breath, Laverne Wilkinson went to the emergency room at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn afraid she was having a heart attack. Doctors quickly checked Wilkinson, ordered an EKG and a chest x-ray and sent her home. Their diagnosis? Take two Motrin and call her doctor if…
“So, wait, I just put the thing in the thing and they let me in the thing?” This is me asking my boyfriend how to walk into a gym with my brand spanking new membership card. “Um, yes?” I haven’t been inside an actual house of workout in perhaps a decade. That is hardly a…
I swear, in the past few years, the health and fitness industry has morphed into a soul-crushing machine that pokes and prods at the self-image of women — using scientists, doctors, and the arbitrary Body Mass Index (BMI) as justification for disseminating harmful messages, images, and misinformation about weight. Case in point, now researchers are…
Well it looks like old folks have found another trend that can supposedly harm people who want to be fashionable. According to researchers, “skinny jeans” can temporarily pinch the nerves in your hips, causing a nerve disorder named meralgia paresthetica. “The disorder that occurs when one of the nerves that runs in the outer part…
As the New Year approaches I am grateful for the spirit of renewal, re-birth and restoration. But most of all I am grateful for the ability to lie to myself again about how much I’ll work out, eat right, pray like a saint and spend time writing poems like I did the year before. And…
As we get ready to head into the New Year, no doubt many of us will be making resolutions. While I hope your plans for 2013 include having more fun, pursuing your goals, and seeing the world, I’m sure some will also want to lose weight. While living healthy lives—no matter what the scale says—should…
With tobacco sales declining in most of the Western world, cigarette companies are looking to capitalize on growing markets. According to the Los Angeles Times, many have turned to Africa to help them turn a profit, where children are quickly getting hooked on the dangerous practice. Reporting from South Africa, Robyn Dixon of the L.A. Times writes: A schoolboy…
