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Are You Fat or Not?

Are You Fat or Not?

One commonly-used measure of health and obesity is the body mass index, or BMI, but it may actually be a poor measure of Asian American health, according to recent studies.

BMI is calculated...

Mina.Scott | Issue 7: Body - Fall 2005, Feature
Action Packed

Action Packed

Hyphens First Sex Survey

Writer Claire Light Artist Cielo Oreste

This summer Hyphen polled 261 mostly Asian Americans on the Internet about their sex lives. Ranging in age from 18–58, and almost...

Mina.Scott | Issue 7: Body - Fall 2005, Feature
Playing the Field

Playing the Field

SAM magazine debuts in black lace and Saran Wrap.

The big-block “SAM” jumped at me from the bookstore's magazine rack. The alluring Asian woman on the cover also caught my eye. At first I thought “SAM” stood for “Single Asian Male,” but I...

Han Pham | Issue 7: Body - Fall 2005, Redux

Bone Dry

Dr. Lam Do says his son, Luke's, leukemia struck overnight. “We didn't even think he was sick. We got some routine blood test results on a Friday and he was an in-patient by Saturday night,”...

Han Pham | Issue 7: Body - Fall 2005, Front of the Book
Not Too Pretty

Not Too Pretty

It may be time to look as closely at your beauty products' labels as you do your grocery labels.

One-third of all personal care products contain one or more ingredients that could cause cancer. The Environmental Working Group, which monitors the ingredients of cosmetics, found that among...

Han Pham | Issue 7: Body - Fall 2005
Start Caring About Cancer

Start Caring About Cancer

Asian American women have the fastest growing rate of breast cancer in the nation, yet they are some of the least likely to be screened for it.

New statistics from organizations such...

Hana Hsu | Issue 7: Body - Fall 2005, Front of the Book

Just Say "Low" to Drugs

A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine may help unravel why some racial groups show greater sensitivity to certain drugs. Researchers at the University of Washington...

Han Pham | Issue 7: Body - Fall 2005, Front of the Book
Not Soy Fast

Not Soy Fast

We can add one more to the ever growing list of Asian stereotypes. Somewhere after “all Asians are good at math” and “Asian men are as sexy as William Hung,” we can now add “Asians can eat...

Han Pham | Issue 7: Body - Fall 2005, Front of the Book

Home Remedies

We've all been there as children—home sick with a cold, fever or stomach ache. All good parents stock the essentials like cough syrup, ibuprofen or that pink stuff in their medicine cabinet but...

Han Pham | Issue 7: Body - Fall 2005, Front of the Book
Space Hygeine 101

Space Hygeine 101

How to take care of your body in space.

From October 2004 to April 2005 the International Space Station orbited the Earth carrying the first multi-person crew of all Asian descent: Kirghiz Russian flight engineer Salizhan Sharipov...

Han Pham | Recipe, Issue 7: Body - Fall 2005

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