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Join Dr. Gupta’s ‘Four Months to Fitness’ initiative!
Editor's Note: CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta originally posted this blog on June 23, 2009 to kick off his "Four Months to Fitness" initiative.
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Today, I am starting something I have wanted to do for a very long time.
Using this blog and my @SanjayGuptaCNN Twitter account, I am going to try to harness some of the best practices people employ every day to stay in the best shape of their lives.
Truth is, there are hundreds of sites like this, so I want to make this one different. First of all, I am hoping it becomes a living, breathing forum that users, like you, use to share your best health and fitness tips. I learn new things every day from CNN bloggers and tweeters. You all are a great resource of information.
I am also going to call on my friends and others I find inspiring to help as well.
For example, @JoePerez helped create something called the Daily Plate, which partners with the non-profit cancer foundation LIVESTRONG, where I sit on the board of directors. After surveying lots of different ways of tracking diets, I think this is one of the best. I will introduce you to Joe and the Web site.
There are also sites out there that will start to help you heart rate train. After doing lots of research, I believe this is one of the most effective and efficient ways of training. Ironically, my friends who listened to this recommendation from me say they work out less intensely and still increase their fitness more than before.
Obama marks NAACP's 100th Anniversary
President Obama will be in New York tonight to address the NAACP convention, which marks their 100 year anniversary. It's a major address by the nation's first African-American president.
Just last year as a candidate, Barack Obama was both deferential and defiant before the civil rights group.
"I know there's some who been saying I've been too tough talking about responsibility. I'm here to report I'm not going to stop talking about it."
Taking on some of his African-American critics, President Obama delivered a message of tough love, echoed just last weekend in Ghana.
"We all know that the future of Africa is in the hand of Africans."
The historic election of the United States' first African American president highlights the NAACP's role in fighting for equality and opportunity.
NAACP President Ben Jealous says, "This is a big step that we've taken, having a black family in the White House, ending that 233-year-old color barrier. But there's a lot more work that needs to be done."
This after former President Bush kept the NAACP at arms length, declining their invitations to address them for 5 years.
Commentary: The NAACP at 100: Much more work to do
What do you think? Has President Obama met the Black community's expectations? What is the future of the NAACP? Has it achieved its goals? Tell us your thoughts.
What’s on Tap – Thursday July 16, 2009
Here are the big stories on the agenda today:
- An eighth suspect now under arrest in connection to the shocking home invasion murder of a Florida couple that had 17 kids. Cops traced an accused killer’s steps and tracked her down.
Police say this was carefully planned, but were they the specific target? We’ll talk to the man in charge of the investigation. - Was it the turning point? This morning, for the first time ever, we're seeing video of the Pepsi commercial shoot where Michael Jackson's hair caught fire. And we can guarantee after seeing it, you'll never think of the accident in the same way. We’re taking a look at whether this set the “king of pop” on a path to drug dependency… and his eventual death.
- Will you get sick in the future? And do you really want to know? There's surprising new information on the psychological effect of getting bad news about your health, years ahead of time. Dr. Sanjay Gupta has the pros and cons of finding out you're getting sick – in the future.
- Former DC Mayor Marion Barry says there’s nothing wrong with hiring your girlfriend. He did it. And it could get him in big trouble. He’s here live to defend himself. You cannot miss this one!
We Listen – Your comments 7/15/09
Editor's Note: Thursday’s American Morning viewers expressed strong opinion regarding the discrimination lawsuit by the Creative Steps Day Care against the Pennsylvania Valley Swim Club, with the majority opposed to the suit. Those opposed did not “see how the lawsuit will bring about any positive change to this situation.” Those in favor of the suit noted “this is 2009 and a lesson needs to be learned by anyone discriminating against anyone.”
Against Lawsuit:
- Aisha: My name is Aisha and as an African American I understand what the Daycare center is going through at this difficult time. You hope through everything negative something positive happens. I really do not see how the lawsuit will bring about any positive change to this situation.
- Glen: Does anyone have the understanding that "private" means just that "private'. They own the pool and they have the right to choose. It did not take them long to fire out the "lets sue" slogan.
- Jeremy: I am so tried of this swimming case! It had no need to go to court and life goes on. This group is out to make a profit.
- Lee: Regarding the children being denied access to the swimming pool, I find it an awful thing. My goodness, I thought such racism was over with and I'm speaking as a Southerner who is quite familiar with racism, sexism and homophobia. The owners of the pool should be sued out of business to make an example to others that such behavior cannot and will not be tolerated.
- Stephanie: Do not sue over the swimming pool mess. It does not teach the kids to work things out peacefully. A court room is just another battle field. If it is done again, then go to court....but give peace a chance.
- Jay: The whole idea that a public pool in Philadelphia would kick children out for being black is ridiculous. It's ALWAYS about race. It would not matter if there are other valid reasons. They will MAKE it racial. Racism won't die because blacks won't LET it die. Just another excuse to sue someone. Same story, different day.
- Pat: White people get blamed for racism, at the drop of a hat. I have walked in black businesses, and did not even get a hello, I just left. This country is ok with reverse racism, I hear it on TV. every day. We have a black president, they need to get over it.
- Dan: The lady you had on this morning from the swim club where the kids were expelled based on race. I disagree with the kids not being allowed in to the club. Equal opportunity; however, the comment the director made about one of the kids now suffering migraines from this is way out there. That is a bunch of bologna. Just a way to try and beef up the lawsuit.
Is Secretary Clinton being back-benched?
By CNN's Jill Dougherty
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers a major foreign policy speech and some Washington political observers ask: "Is she trying to get back in the spotlight?"
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Since she slipped and broke her elbow last month, the secretary has had to cancel an international trip, and some inside-the-Beltway types are reading the tea leaves. Is it another step in the process of keeping Secretary Clinton from the real foreign policy decision-making in the Obama administration?
"The Daily Beast's" Tina Brown writes: "Left behind on major presidential trips, overruled in choosing her own staff - Hillary Clinton is the invisible woman at State."
"It's time for Barack Obama to let Hillary Clinton take off her burqa," she said.
The Washington Post's Jim Hoagland said it's President Obama's inner circle, advisers such as chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and senior adviser David Axelrod, who are controlling the president's foreign policy message. He predicts "tensions will emerge instead between the close-in advisers and the Cabinet secretaries who have been chosen to sell and implement policies more than to decide them."
Clinton aides say charges that the secretary is being "back-benched" are "wholly false."
Dems may call Cheney to testify
Democrats in the House are raising the stakes to find out whether former Vice President Cheney did in fact order the CIA not to tell Congress about a counter-terrorism program. They just may ask Cheney to pay them a visit on Capitol Hill. CNN's Jim Acosta reports.
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