Maudene Nelson, RD, CDE has been a nutrition educator at the Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition for the past thirty years. She is also a diabetes educator at the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center. She tells us how to make our diets healthier by adding in beans!

Dr. Isobel Contento is a Professor in Nutrition Education and Coordinator of the Nutrition Program in the Department of Health and Behavior Studies at Teachers College Columbia University.

Vivian Kurutz practicing yogaIn this article, Vivian W. Kurutz, director of the Harlem Center for Healthy Living (HCHL), talks about what types of services are available to members of the community.

Q: What services are offered at Harlem Center for Healthy Living?

A: We offer a lot of different services so that many areas of health are addressed. For example, there is a Blood Pressure Monitor on site.

Wilhelmina Obatola is a resident of Harlem, mixed-media assemblage artist, and breast cancer survivor. She uses objects she finds to create art that brings awareness to breast cancer and violence against women.

She talks to GHH about her personal fight with this disease.

Nancy Bruning, MPH, is a fitness instructor and public health researcher in New York City.  In this article, she talks about her belief that people should combine healthy eating with exercise to improve health and well-being.

Laura Evensen, MPH, the Behavioral Research Director of the stroke division at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, is working to figure out why some people are less likely to have a stroke. We chatted with her about what she has found out so far through her research and experience.

Pat Kringas, RN, MA, CDE is a Certified Diabetes Educator at the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center in Northern Manhattan. She has also recently become the Education Director at the Center.

Gabrielle Rubin was born and raised in New York and founded Female Awareness, a company that teaches self-defense classes to all types of New Yorkers. She talks to GetHealthyHarlem.org about why it's important to take a self-defense class.

Robert Martinez, L.Ac., MSTOM, is a taiji instructor and certified acupuncturist working in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. In this interview, he talks about the practice of taiji and shares its benefits-both physical and spiritual-with GetHealthyHarlem.org readers.

Robert Martinez, L.Ac., MSTOM is a taiji instructor and certified acupuncturist in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. Read on below to learn more about the Chinese practice of taiji!