Health Rewind: NFL May Team Up With White House on Obamacare Education
Plus, are African-Americans more accepting of obesity?
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Obama and NFL Could Score in Teaching Americans About the Health Care Bill - The White House and the NFL are in talks to create a program that will better educate Americans about the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This week, Obama launched a separate site aimed at demystifying the open enrollment process for the new health care law, CNN.com reported. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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FDA Approves Two New Menthol Cigarettes - The FDA announced that it approved two new types of menthol cigarettes and rejected four others, Reuters wrote. Newport Non-Menthol Gold Box 100s and Newport Non-Menthol Gold Box, both made by Lorillard Inc., will be on shelves in the near future. Recently, an Oakland group called for the FDA to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes. (Photo: Paul Sakuma/AP Photo, file)
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Black Medicaid Patients Less Likely to Receive Kidney Transplants - A new study found that Black patients on Medicaid, health care for low-income Americans, that needed kidney transplants were 14 times less likely to get one compared to Black patients with private insurance. African-Americans account for more than 30 percent of patients on dialysis but account for a mere 13 percent of transplants in general, Health Day wrote. (Photo: Akira Suwa/Philadelphia Inquirer/MCT)
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New Documentary on Black Students in Autism Debuts - Best Kept Secret, a documentary about Janet Mino, a Newark, New Jersey, teacher preparing her mostly Black and Latino autistic high school students for graduation, is getting rave reviews, the Washington Post wrote. Even Newark’s Mayor Cory Booker makes a cameo in the film as well. The film is currently on the film festival circuit now. Watch the trailer here. Photo: Commercial Appeal /Landov)
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Nigerian Billionaire’s Polio Fight - Sir Emeka Offor is donating $1.25 million to Nigeria’s Rotary Club's PolioPlus program to help end polio in his country. "Polio should have no place in our world,” the tycoon said in a press release. Polio is very troublesome in the country because Muslim leaders are falsely preaching that the vaccinations cause sterility and AIDS.(Photo: Akintunde Akinleye /Landov)
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Texas Abortion Bill Defeated - Passage of an abortion bill in Texas was ruled invalid Wednesday because it didn’t make a deadline. The bill would have closed almost every abortion clinic in the state, CNN reported. (Photo:Eric Gay/AP Photo)
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Tracee Ellis Ross Launches New Campaign, Hair Love - What started out as a funny meme on Instagram giving props to actress Tracee Ellis Ross’ amazing mane, has turned into a new campaign, Hair Love. Ross is encouraging Black women to love the hair that they have, instead of hers. You can send videos to Ross telling her why they love your own hair, reported NaturallyCurly.Com. (Photo: Courtesy Tracee Ellis Ross)
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Underage Drinking Differs by Race - A new study found that while 37 percent of 8-year-olds (second graders) have tasted alcohol, only 18 percent of Black kids that age had. And “at age 11, 36 percent of Black children were light drinkers compared with 57 percent of white kids,” reported the Huffington Post. Researchers believe that we may have more conservative views on alcohol, which may account for these differences. (Photo: GettyImages)
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How Does Sleep Affect Teens’ Diets? - Teens who get more sleep are more likely to eat healthier, says a new study. Researchers from Stony Brook University School of Medicine found that young people who slept less than seven hours a day were more likely to eat fatty food two or more times a day and less likely to eat fruits and vegetables. (Photo: GettyImages)
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The Four-Minute Workout - How much time do we really need to exercise? The answer is four minutes if you do high intensity interval workouts, says the New York Times. These workouts, which are “bursts of strenuous exercise lasting anywhere from 30 seconds to several minutes,” can help you lose weight faster than steady paced workouts. (Photo: GettyImages)