A Health Message Listeners Can Relate To

"Body Love" is a weekly, 15-minute serialized radio drama crammed with schemes, dreams and cliffhangers about how two extended families wrestle with a slew of health problems while trying to navigate prickly relationships and cope with financial strains. Written by students and faculty at the University of Alabama, the show targets African Americans, who struggle with many of these health crises in disproportionate numbers. Across Alabama, for instance, 35% of black women are obese, compared with 20% of white women. The diabetes death rate for blacks is more than double that for whites."BodyLove's" characters face those odds with more frustration than courage. They give in to cravings for burgers. They resist taking insulin. They quit smoking, then backslide; lose weight, then regain it. In short, they sound real -- like your best friend, like you -- and not like authorities lecturing from on high.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-radio11apr11,1,6527...
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