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Radio Personality Big Boy Shares His Weight Loss Journey

Struggling with weight loss all his life, radio personality Big Boy details his journey from…

Kurt “Big Boy” Alexander has always been, well, a "big boy." For years the longtime radio personality played up his hefty size, even if it came at the expense of his health. After failed attempts at maintaining a healthy weight through diet and exercise, he eventually went under the knife in a quest to drop the pounds. However, complications from the surgery nearly cost him his life. Big Boy details his personal journey and lifelong struggles with weight in his new book, An XL Life: Staying Big at Half the Size (Cash Money Content). Now back on the right track, he shares personal before and after photos of his fluctuating weight throughout the years with BlackEnterprise.com. Afterwards click here to read Big Boy's interview with BlackEnterprise.com about how he triumphed over weight loss and gained a second chance at life.

Big Boy: Before & After the Weight Loss

Taking a visual look at the radio personality's amazing weight loss through the years

The radio personality shares personal photos of his before and after weight loss experience as…

By Anslem Samuel

Posted: February 7, 2012 Tags: Big Boy, Dr. Dre, Janet Jackson, Jay Z, Kevin Liles, Michael Jackson, Run-DMC, Vicente Fernández Gómez, weight loss, Will Smith

Squinting, eye strain, prescription changes and migraines. These are all common health issues among today's office professionals.

With about 14 million people ages 12 and older having visual impairment, eye health is one factor that can't be ignored or dismissed. The economic impact of major vision problems alone is telling--- at more than $51 billion, according to the CDC's Vision Health Initiative---causing "a substantial social and economic toll for millions of people including significant suffering, disability, loss of productivity, and diminished quality of life."

Maintaining proper eye care can ensure everyday living --- from home to work --- is that much more manageable. BlackEnterprise.com caught up with entrepreneur and optician Utenzi Miller-Johnson, of New Jersey-based Elegant Eyes, on how to improve and maintain good visual health. ---Janell Hazelwood

Eye Sore: Three Quick Tips to Avoid Behind-the-Desk Strain

Three tips to ensure good eye health beyond the office

Entrepreneur and optician Utenzi Miller-Johnson offers these steps to improve and maintain your eyesight.

By Janell Hazelwood

Posted: January 27, 2012 Tags: CDC, diabetes, Elegant Eyes, eye care, eye health, eyeglasses, eyewear, eyewear fashion, fitness, glasses, office professional, office worker, Utenzi Miller-Johnson, Vision Health Initiative, vision impairment, vision loss, workplace health

Are Black Men More Susceptible to Kidney Disease?

An exploration into the high number of kidney-related incidents in the African American community

Nick Cannon’s recent kidney failure scare raises awareness about the high number of kidney disease…

By Shydel James

Posted: January 24, 2012 Tags: Alonzo Mourning, diabetes, Dr. Bryan Becker, health, High Blood Pressure, hypertension, James Osborne, kidney disease, kidney disorder, kidney failure, Membranous Nephropathy, National Kidney Foundation, Nick Cannon, Sean Elliot, weight gain, weight loss

It’s the middle of January and how many of you are ready to give up on your new year’s resolution of living a healthier lifestyle? Stats show that over 70% drop their resolutions by the 31st. The key to a healthier lifestyle transformation is to integrate small changes, which will make you feel better overall and will lead to more healthy habits. Many try to take on an entire lifestyle overhaul rather than integrating smaller and more attainable goals that will take them throughout the entire year.

These five tips illustrate ways to help you stay on track to achieving your healthy resolution well into 2012.---Suncear Scretchen

5 Tips to Keep Your Healthy Living New Year’s Resolution

Solutions to help you stay on track to achieving your healthy living resolution well into 2012

Solutions to help you stay on track to achieving your healthy living resolution well into…

By Suncear Scretchen

Posted: January 20, 2012 Tags: fitness, healthy, New year's resolution, stress, Wellness

Well, it’s official. The new year is here. Like everything else in our rapid-fire world these days, with the flick of a switch (or drop of a big crystal ball in Times Square) all the anticipation, planning and counting down is suddenly over and then comes… the big let down. Because no matter how much we force feed it, bumper-sticker optimism and new resolutions, somehow, most new years just don’t feel all that new. In fact, chances are you dragged all your 2011 challenges into 2012. Doing more with less on the job? Check. Trying to still get a job? Check. Relationship stresses? Check. Wish you were in a relationship? Check. Owed too much money? Check. Feeling overwhelmed, underappreciated and out of whack? Check, check, and check! Let’s be real. Things don’t suddenly get better as one year changes into another anymore than they magically improve when a random tough Thursday becomes a freshly hatched Friday. Nothing becomes “new” unless we do. So, here are five surefire ways to make you feel, look and perform better, this new year. —Caroline Clarke

5 Things You Should Do to Better Yourself in the New Year

If resolutions aren't your thing here are some simple 2012 tasks

The start of a new year is the perfect time to make changes in your…

By Caroline Clarke

Posted: January 4, 2012 Tags: 2012, Caroline Clarke, New Year, Patti LaBelle, Winging It

Is a Woman Less of a Woman If She Decides Never to Have Kids?

Sportscaster Pam Oliver inspires a new book and asks the hard question many professional women face: Am I a failure if I don't have children?

Sonja Lewis’s new novel ‘The Barrenness’ inspired by sportscaster Pam Oliver who says who says…

By Tomika Anderson

Posted: December 22, 2011 Tags: book, Book Review, Career, Pam Oliver, pregnancy, Sonja Lewis, The Barranness, Women of Power

All I Want For Christmas is… Balance in My Life

The holidays bring out the best and worse in people but there is a middleground

Christmas is a time for family & friends but it can be a stressful period…

By Caroline Clarke

Posted: December 21, 2011 Tags: birthday, cancer, Caroline Clark, Christmas, holidays, Winging It, Yale

Carmelita Jeter Talks About the 2012 Olympics and the Business of Track & Field

Next summer the world’s attention will be focused on London for 2012 Olympic Games and…

By timmhotep aku

Posted: December 20, 2011 Tags: 100m, 200m, carmelita jeter, jeter, London 2012 Olympic Games, Olympics, sprinter, track and field

Health sometimes takes a backseat during the holidays. No, we’re not just referring to your “holiday break” from the gym or the diet plan you put on hold to indulge in yuletide sweets. This year’s health-inspired gift pickings will have even your not so health-obsessed loved ones pleased. Whether they want to access their blood pressure or weight from their iPhone or plug in a controller to make exercising more fun, there’s a little something for everybody. As part of our Holiday Gift Guide coverage, BlackEnterprise.com suggests these eight healthy gift picks that will have folks talking about your gift well into the new year.--Janel Martinez

Holiday Gift Guide: 8 Health-Conscious Tech Gifts

Don’t know what to purchase the health buff in your life? Check out these tech treats

These eight healthy gift picks will have folks talking about your gift well into the…

By Janel Martinez

Posted: December 16, 2011 Tags: 2011 Holiday Guide Gallery, health, Holiday Gift Guide, iBaby Monitor, iHealth Blood Pressure Dock, iHealth Digital Scale, Kinect for Xbox 360, Mint Plus Automatic Floor Cleaner, Motorola’s MOTOACTV Fitness Tracker + Smart Music Player, Philips Sonicare AirFloss, Philips Sonicare DiamondClean, Technology

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