Discovering YOU Magazine June 2023 Issue | Page 11

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

to accomplish: health and long life. Ector also says that the way she fashioned her workout program gets women out of the main excuses for not working out: price and availability. This program makes it affordable for women who may not have the means to invest in a gym membership or buy workout machinery for their homes.

African-American women observe a lower rate of uterine and other gynecologic cancers as compared to Caucasian women, but die from the disease at almost twice the rate as Caucasian women. In fact, African American women have lower 5-year survival rates and die from the disease more than any other race.