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Essential Skincare For Women of Color
May 13th, 2009 | 
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As Women of Color, our brown skin is diverse but its unique characteristics bind us together. The unique characteristics of our brown skin will give us positives like: a greater natural protection from the sun and lower our risk of skin cancer, producing more melanin, resulting in a warmer skin shade & help reduce visible signs of ageing, deep wrinkles, fine lines and sun spots. For every advantage, there are usually disadvantages & here, our brown skin can suffer from: uneven darkening or lightening of skin color due to potential problems with pigmentation, increased risk of keloid (raised scars) development & occasionally, problems with hair growth and in-growing hairs.
Women of Colour, whatever their origin, understand the challenges we all face & we can refer to the discolorations by various names but what we all know, it can take months or sometimes years to fade.
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Women Of Color And Diabetes
Today, diabetes is one of the most serious health challenges facing women in the United States, especially women of color. Complications from diabetes rank among the top 10 causes of death for all women.
Whether diabetes is an underlying cause or among multiple causes of death, the toll on women, especially women of color, is significant. For African American women, the diabetes death rates are the highest in terms of both underlying cause (49.6 per 100,000) and multiple causes (156.5 per 100,000).1 American Indian/Alaska Native and Latina women have high rates as well. The lowest rates are reported for Asian/Pacific Islander women.