BlackWomensHealth.com welcomes you to a new and hopefully prosperous year.  2008 was a tough year for many of us, but we are hopeful that 2009 will be a year for some truly great things to happen. The BlackWomensHealth.com team is here to help your health and wellness grow by leaps and bounds!

Have you established some health and wellness goals for 2009? Do you want to increase the time you spend exercising, eat better, reduce your stress, or increase your flexibility?  Whatever your goal is, you can do it with making changes to your lifestyle.

At the top of many lists is weight loss. BlackWomensHealth.com is thrilled to be able to partner with diet and weight loss expert Robert Ferguson as he helps us reach our goals. Robert is the founder of  DietFreeLife.   He works with every day people, celebrities, executives and professional athletes in their pursuit of weight loss. Robert is one of America’s Leading Voices on Weight Loss and brings a real solution for the millions of people who struggle daily with overweight and obesity. His article Lose Weight Without Dieting will certainly help you get off to a good start in 2009 as you strive to achieve your weight loss goals.  Here are some other articles that you may find useful:

• Exercise and Diet: Tips for Success 
• Weight Loss Goals

Last, but not least, we have something for our viewers who are pregnant (or who are considering pregnancy) but want to know what type of exercise they can do during pregnancy to stay healthy (and have an easier time of returning to their pre-pregnancy weight!).  Darline Turner-Lee, a Physician Assistant and Exercise Specialist from Austin, Texas provides a very useful article entitled Prenatal Exercise is Good For Mom and Good For Baby! Darline is the founder of Next Step Fitness and is a strong advocate of empowering women with the knowledge to make informed healthcare choices.

Peace and Blessings,

David P. Pryor, MD, MPH
President and Founder

BlackWomensHealth.com