Every year I look forward to the Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) Dirty Dozen/Clean Fifteen list. This handy guide helps you avoid non-organic fruits and vegetables that are highest in pesticide residues and choose non-organic items from the Clean Fifteen List. As someone who works with…
For the past week, friends have been reaching out to me as a result of a commercial that features my family and I. All five of us had the distinct honor of being chosen to receive round trip tickets to what I believe is the…
I have been waiting anxiously for the premiere of Love In The City on OWNV. I’d be lying if it wasn’t because I knew I made a quick appearance. Also, there are two breast cancer survivors featured in the docu-series. I think it does a…
Let me say this, having breast cancer and going through treatment for it, is no easy venture. In “The Healthy Girl’s Guide to Breast Cancer”: A Memoir of My Unthinkable Journey”, Author Christine Egan, keeps it as real as it gets. While the book cover…
There is a misconception that eating foods to prevent cancer is boring, bland and difficult to prepare. Now that the distraction of Pinktober is almost over, I am happy to share a list that you can use all year long. In case you didn’t know, Pinktober…
With all the talk about The Affordable Care Act and the government shutdown in response to it, I thought it was important to share this video with you about disparities in care between the rich and the poor and the difference a Patient Navigator…
It’s official… I’m featured in the October 2013 issue of Latina Magazine!
Fashion Photographer David Jay of The SCAR Project: Breast Cancer Is Not a Pink Ribbon recently completed a new project, titled The Alabama Project: Civil Rights In A New Era of HealthCare Challenges. Taken in the Deep South of Alabama, this is a series of…
Suzanne Boothby is a health writer, speaker and author. Coming Clean: A Conscious Guide to Food Cleanses is a powerhouse book which offers its readers everything they’ll need to know before embarking on their next cleanse. A FREE copy will be given to 5 participants of my Summer Countdown…
By PEGGY ORENSTEIN I used to believe that a mammogram saved my life. I even wrote that in the pages of this magazine. It was 1996, and I had just turned 35 when my doctor sent me for an initial screening — a relatively common…