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Thursday, December 29, 2005
Fitness industry using hip hop and gospel
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Benita P^kins’ "Taking It to
a Higher Ground” DVD sets
step aerobics to a background
of Kenny Bobien and other
popular black gospel artists.
On the black-aimed TV One
network, fitness guru Donna
Richardson Joyner sets brisk
workouts to live R&B.
And fiom New York to Los
Angeles, hip-hop yoga classes
like the one Arizona-based
Ian Lopatin teaches entice
blacks who prefer trying the
"downward facing dog” posi
tion set to Snoop Dogg.
"It has roots in their cul
ture,” &q>lained Lopatin, who
tours the coimtry teaching.
"If you’re doing yoga to
T\ipac, it doesn’t seem so for-
agn anymore."
Tailoring health messages
to blacks is a common-sense
response to an obvious mar
ket, said Lucille Perez, a
health director with the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo
ple, a leading civil rights
group. In the past, she said
marketers didn’t see any
value in expanding beyond
white consumers.
“It doesn’t take a rocket sci
entist to say if we are a popu
lation that is disproportion
ately obese ... why wouldn’t I
develop a market and market
to this population," she said.
But packaging fitness for
black consumers comes with
challenges.
In the mid-1990s. Universi
ty of Pennsylvania epidemiol
ogy professor Shiriki
Kumanyika interviewed 53
black men and women and
found that many viewed
exercise as excess work that
could do more harm than
good
Some thought it would
aggravate high blood pres
sure and add to stress —
already running high for
many blacks. These men and
women overemphasized rest,
some calling sleep even more
important than exercise.
That “rest ethic” goes back to
slavery Kumanyika said.
“Stories that are passed
down through generations
are that people were brou^t
here and forced to work,” she
said "It’s kind of l(^cal to
Pharmacist offers no apology for taking stand
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST LOUIS—Illinois phar
macist Rich Quajie makes no
apologies for refusing to vio
late his religious beliefs and
dispense emergency contra
ception.
It’s a stand that cost him his
$l(X),000-a-year job at a Wal
green Co. pharmacy in Madi
son County when he refused
to sign a pledge for his
employer promising to dis
pense the medicine in accor
dance with a new state rule.
Quayle and two other
Metro East pharmacists were
put on indefinite unpaid
leave last month by Walgreen
after they cited religious and
ethical grounds for balking at
the rule they say wron^y
forces them to dispense the
morning-after pill.
Proponents of the rule —
first imposed by Gov. Rod
Blagojevich in April and
made p«manent in August -
say it guarantees women’s
access to legal birth control.
‘Teople try to paint us as
being religious zealots,”
Quajde, 54, said fiom his
home in Highland, Hi. "I
have firm religious beliefs,
and I choose not to destroy a
human being. I don’t think
that’s necessarily a bad moral
stance to take.”
The rule requires pharma
cies that sell federally
approved contraceptives to
fill prescriptions for emer
gency birth control "without
delay” if they have the med
ication in stock. If the contra
ceptive is not in stock, the
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think that the idea of not hav
ing to do this physical labor
would be something that
would be valued,"
Those surveyed also
thought blacks worked dis
proportionately strenuous
jobs and thei'efoi'e got enough
exercise during the day
“Most jobs we’ve got are
going to work in jobs like jan
itors," one said... "We’re going
to work oui'selves to tlie
bone,"
Surprisingly, tliat belief
held true even among desk
workers, Kimianyika said,
“People might think of
themselves as haixlworidng
people to come home and
rest," she said. “In fact, their
jobs maybe sedentary”
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cist won’t fill the prescription
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