November/December 2011 contents ® Get the features Latest Health webmd.com the Magazine world health Information Music star and new mom world health Alicia Keys tells WebMD what drives her to travel the 56 Alicia’s Quest world to help kids affected by Fourteen-time Grammy Award-winning from AIDS and how you can help musician Alicia Keys has children on her mind. She and her music-producer Sent Right to husband, Swizz Beatz, are new parents to a baby boy, Egypt. She’s also caring Your Inbox for kids with HIV/AIDS across the Fourteen-time Grammy Award-winning artist Alicia Keys, 30, had her first world by providing medicine and Questbaby more than a year ago, a handsome bundle of joy named Egypt. He has “the most perfect eyes and beautiful nose, the sweetest lips and skin so soft and kissable! Never have I felt such disbelief, such awe, humility, godliness, such strength, power, and possibility,” access to medical care. Keys talks to Receive important news the singer gushes about her son on her blog. Keys and her husband, music producer, Alicia’s rapper, and entrepreneur Swizz Beatz, 33, chose the unusual moniker as a nod to the WebMD contributing writer Lauren enduring power of the ancient pyramids built more than two millennia ago in Africa. Long before Keys fully understood the similarly enduring power of a parent’s love, she found the massive scale of suffering among the world’s children too dire to ignore. Paige Kennedy about her inspiration for and expert views on 50 After touring impoverished South Africa for the first time eight years ago, she saw up close how that suffering compounds when HIV is involved. founding Keep a Child Alive. PLUS: Keys By Lauren Paige Kennedy, WebMD Contributing Writer Reviewed by challenges the WebMD community to topics including Women’s Louise Chang, MD WebMD SENIOR MEDICAL EDITOR fight AIDS by contributing just $1. and Men’s Health, Skin & November/December 2011 | WebMD the Magazine 69 Beauty, Parenting, Weight COVER PHOTO BY YU TSAI/CONTOUR BY GETTY IMAGES Reviewed by holiday recipes Kathleen Zelman, MPH, RD, LD Loss, Pet Health, and 30 WebMD DIRECTOR OF NUTRITION holiday recipes health conditions. 62 Home Cooking HOME A Jersey boy who grew up on his grandmother’s cooking, Top Chef All-Stars runner-up Mike Isabella Top Chef star whips up a holiday menu inspired by his Italian- Mike Isabella Cookingtaps into his culinary roots for a American heritage. The star of the feast Jersey-style family holiday feast is his pepperoni sauce, drizzled over spice-rubbed Long before he stole the show as runner-up on Bravo’s Top Chef All-Stars last season with his pepperoni sauce epiphany, Mike Isabella was just another Italian-American kid in North Jersey who loved his roasted chicken breasts. This dish is sure to be a hit grandmother’s cooking. Every Christmas Day, Isabella’s family would gather at his Aunt Connie’s house, where his grandmother and aunts whipped up a holiday feast of Jerseylicious fare. “There was lots of that classic New at your holiday table says WebMD deputy editor Kim York-New Jersey Italian food,” he says. “We did lots of pastas, lots Tk. SearchPhotography tk. by John Lee WebMD.com Caviness. 74 WebMD the Magazine | November/December 2011 November/December 2011 | WebMD the Magazine 75 Always free and health heroes health heroes your privacy protected. Champions of Care 68 WebMD’s sixth annual tribute honors four Americans who are changing the health landscape for all. This year’s heroes include RA awareness champion Kelly Young; prostate cancer screening advocate Thomas E. Moody, MD; Ellen L. Beck, MD, a professor and doctor whose student-run clinic CHAMPIONSWebMD honors four inspiring model inspires others throughout the country; and Darell OF Americans who are changing the health landscape for all Hammond, who fights for kids, one playground at a time. of us, in our sixth annual WebMD Health Heroes tribute Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD PLUS: What are last year’s Health Heroes doing today? CARE Profiles by Susan Davis, WebMD Senior Editor WebMD SENIOR MEDICAL EDITOR 1 departments ® November/December 2011 webmd.com the Magazine Healthy Eats Editor’s Note 54 4 54 Anatomy of a Parsnip Get to know the benefits of the carrot’s vitamin C-rich cousin. 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