You're a thinking brother and I like that. African Americans in the 70s were targeted on eating pork, lard, and butter and were propagandized into to thinking they were more prone to heart disease and high blood pressure. When black people ate diets like their forebears they lived longer and had fewer health problems. I researched my own family tree and spoke with my rural elders and found the city folks were tricked into believing their diets were ghastly and would cost them their health.
When I went back to eating like my country elders, including using lard and coconut oil I found my health improved. A meal with the rural family included an assortment of veggies as well as all that stuff city folks have been lead to believe were bad for them.
Folks don't understand the medical industry is a greedy deceiving industry so when they started telling blacks they should eat a certain way that's when diabetes, heart disease, and high cholesterol became a problem for blacks.
People need to take the time and study their ancestors eating habits to find out what types of food they should be consuming for optimum health. Black people be they from the islands, Britain, or elsewhere in the world dietary needs are not one size fit all. One thing for sure they must not take what the medical establishment says about them as 100% fact due to that industry being driven by prescriptions (money) and not cures.
One last thing, another factor statistics seldom address in regards to African American health issues is stress. In this society of hurry and wait, not enough time to do this that or the other it takes a toll on the body. Lets not forget the stress of being black in a society geared towards whiteness. These aren't excuses but facts. The medical establishment knows this but always seem to negate this in regards to blacks and disease (dis-ease),the very word implies not relaxed.
I don't think it is just African Americans who are targeted by drug advertisements for unnecessary meds in the USA. I've seen other adverts made to make you feel paranoid about conditions you may not even have. This is the market influence of private pharmaceutical companies....
It is not allowed to advertised prescribed medicines on TV in the UK. As you say, it should be down to your doctor whether you need a specific drug, and you need to know why you need it.
Diet is everything. You just do not see people who have African ancestry eating all McDonald's etc. in Nordic countries of Europe. I know I am oversimplifying but cheap fast food has no nutrition value and that's the core reason. There may be other factors involved but certainly personal diet has a huge impact. (I've cooked almost all my food for the past eight years, using for example zero salt, and I haven't been to a doctor for ages ... And I used to be sick a lot before ...)
I also wanted to include that alot of these meds have serious side effects. It best to fight disease the naural way with healthy food like fruits, veggies and seafood. why take meds for high blood pressuren then suffer side effects like headaches nausea and clod like symptoms, next I am going to need new meds to take care of the side effects
There are disease that affect white people more then blacks, but when they do a report on those disease they most of the time do not include the fact that the disease affects whites the most, examples are skin cancer,alzhemiers and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and others. In general educated people tend to live longer then uneducated people. Blacks tend to be less educated. With education when you know better you do better, so educated people make better decsions on being healthy.
my suggestion is that there should be a limit on what types of food people who get food stamps can get. i am not suggesting that all black people are getting foodstamps but if anybody gets food stamps, they shouldn't be able to buy chips and candy and cookies and pies. they should be limited to raw foods (mostly) . foods like dry beans rice dry pasta, raw vegetables bread limits on the type of frozen foods, no tv dinners but frozen veggies are ok. cities should limit fast food places w zoning
you guys can't just focus on the diet. the diet comes as a result of poverty. back in the day you could make rice and beans and a salad and maybe some baked chicken for less money than you could buy food from mcdonalds or wendys. today, because these corporations make farmers grow crops for cow feed rather than for human food. meat is cheaper than fruits and vegetables. apples cost a dollar. lemons are 75 cents but a calorie rich burger is only 1dollar. good food just costs more today.
I think you hit the nail on the head when you said diet. African Americans have the crapiest diet for the most part. We use to much fats, oils, salts in our food too. Hypertenision (High Blood Pressure) is mostly due to high sodium intake and having a thick waist line. We should look at food labels and look at the sodium content. Mostly anything canned has high sodium, soy sauce has high sodium. I try to advise those willing to listen on foods they should eat and not eat.
I would have to agree with the dream reborn on this one them doctors want to get some of that free government money from people that go to these community health centers and to me the people who really need help are just walking sacks of money to them doctors
Genetics and southern cooking will kill anyone. Don't eat all that fried shit.. I mean you can, but it's terrible for you. I work at a shopping center. I see that a decent number of reacuring black customers end to buy less fruit and vegetables, and more greasy foods. That's what's killing you. My family doesn't eat like that. Other families I know don't eat like that. Fried foods/fast foods will kill you regardless of your race.
@Ieatbabyseals Thats all good points, i wish black folks would stop making mcdonalds, KFC, and popeyes their restaurants of choice and like you said incorporate more fruits and veggies in their system...
@tyakack And thats exactly why your probably one of the many americans in this country thats fat, out of shape, and probably cant even walk a few blocks down the street without running out of breath wit ya tongue hangin out and shit.........
dream, since you live in nyc, listen to gary null on 99.5fm weekdays at 1pm. he talks about food and how fried meats and processed foods kill people but his knowledge of this is very deep.
you are talking about like cancer are caused by diet, this is a fact. also, there is the medical angle where it has been proven that doctors don't suggest surgeries / medications/additional tests as often with african americans. there is in fact a racism within diagnosing and treating of black people. this too is a proven fact. add all of this up and there is your ultimate answer. people with money are in better health because of access to medical treatment.
good quality food places in black areas. then you have single moms w ho work hard and would rather get fast food than make good food. good food costs more, it didn't always cost more. then you have the type of diet that black people eat which is actually the 'western diet'. it has been proven that when japanese and carribeans come to america their rates of cancer etc, go up. white americans have way higher disease rates than other european and higher obesity. most of these diseases...
it has to do with diet and access to health care and the fact that black people are poorer. poor people do not have access to healthcare and preventative medicine. a white guy might go to the doctor regularly and they might catch cancer earlier but the black guy doesn't get regular checkups and only goes to the doctor when it causes him pain or see sees blood in his urine, for example. poor people live in areas that are packed with many fast food places that sell bad food and there are fewer..
That said, whites in the US spend more on drugs than other races in general (Google "BMC Health Services Research 2008, 8:35" read the 5th paragraph in the discussion section). In order to increase profits (get more ppl consuming drugs, including blacks) drug companies analyze demographics, collecting data by race, gender, age, etc. and then target drugs to each demographic based on the correlations they find. Pill-popping culture has been more prevalent in the US, but Europe is descending.
Drug companies are interested in maximizing profits. They interpret research data to support their products. I do believe they take advantage of ignorance & that socioeconomic&cultural factors have historically impeded or distorted important health information regarding diet and exercise in underprivileged communities. So different communities will have different susceptibilities to drug company ads, as the quality&quantity of information circulating within each demographic will be different.
Some would postulate that the "reason" is because African Americans are the true Hebrew Israelites (descendants) and thus still under the curse of God as put forth in the bible (Old Testament), because we have not yet come out of the "desert" and returned to the One true god. *shrugs shoulders*
In terms of the diet: it's even worse in the American South (Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia, Texas [if you can count that State as a Southern State], etc.). That Southern food tastes great, but it can do a number on your body if you're not careful. It could also have something to do with African-American lifestyles.
Of course it's the diet, combined w/ a sedentary lifestyle, I thought this was well known... And heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide if I'm not mistaken and at-least in the U.S. not just African Americans... And yes if you have hypertension it will kill you if you don't take mess of find some way to get it down naturally i.e. losing weight, eating healthy
Soul food is delicious but it is bad for you. Most of the black Americans that I know eat soul food or a steady diet of McDonalds.
JonJon95GT 1 month ago
sould food man lol
rudyblackbird 6 months ago
You're a thinking brother and I like that. African Americans in the 70s were targeted on eating pork, lard, and butter and were propagandized into to thinking they were more prone to heart disease and high blood pressure. When black people ate diets like their forebears they lived longer and had fewer health problems. I researched my own family tree and spoke with my rural elders and found the city folks were tricked into believing their diets were ghastly and would cost them their health.
RE35R 7 months ago
@RE35R
When I went back to eating like my country elders, including using lard and coconut oil I found my health improved. A meal with the rural family included an assortment of veggies as well as all that stuff city folks have been lead to believe were bad for them.
Folks don't understand the medical industry is a greedy deceiving industry so when they started telling blacks they should eat a certain way that's when diabetes, heart disease, and high cholesterol became a problem for blacks.
RE35R 7 months ago
@RE35R
People need to take the time and study their ancestors eating habits to find out what types of food they should be consuming for optimum health. Black people be they from the islands, Britain, or elsewhere in the world dietary needs are not one size fit all. One thing for sure they must not take what the medical establishment says about them as 100% fact due to that industry being driven by prescriptions (money) and not cures.
RE35R 7 months ago
@RE35R
One last thing, another factor statistics seldom address in regards to African American health issues is stress. In this society of hurry and wait, not enough time to do this that or the other it takes a toll on the body. Lets not forget the stress of being black in a society geared towards whiteness. These aren't excuses but facts. The medical establishment knows this but always seem to negate this in regards to blacks and disease (dis-ease),the very word implies not relaxed.
RE35R 7 months ago
I don't think it is just African Americans who are targeted by drug advertisements for unnecessary meds in the USA. I've seen other adverts made to make you feel paranoid about conditions you may not even have. This is the market influence of private pharmaceutical companies....
It is not allowed to advertised prescribed medicines on TV in the UK. As you say, it should be down to your doctor whether you need a specific drug, and you need to know why you need it.
dogblessamerica 11 months ago
Diet is everything. You just do not see people who have African ancestry eating all McDonald's etc. in Nordic countries of Europe. I know I am oversimplifying but cheap fast food has no nutrition value and that's the core reason. There may be other factors involved but certainly personal diet has a huge impact. (I've cooked almost all my food for the past eight years, using for example zero salt, and I haven't been to a doctor for ages ... And I used to be sick a lot before ...)
Hyvaerinen 1 year ago
I also wanted to include that alot of these meds have serious side effects. It best to fight disease the naural way with healthy food like fruits, veggies and seafood. why take meds for high blood pressuren then suffer side effects like headaches nausea and clod like symptoms, next I am going to need new meds to take care of the side effects
tonuu456 1 year ago
There are disease that affect white people more then blacks, but when they do a report on those disease they most of the time do not include the fact that the disease affects whites the most, examples are skin cancer,alzhemiers and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and others. In general educated people tend to live longer then uneducated people. Blacks tend to be less educated. With education when you know better you do better, so educated people make better decsions on being healthy.
tonuu456 1 year ago
my suggestion is that there should be a limit on what types of food people who get food stamps can get. i am not suggesting that all black people are getting foodstamps but if anybody gets food stamps, they shouldn't be able to buy chips and candy and cookies and pies. they should be limited to raw foods (mostly) . foods like dry beans rice dry pasta, raw vegetables bread limits on the type of frozen foods, no tv dinners but frozen veggies are ok. cities should limit fast food places w zoning
lineartechbd1600 1 year ago
you guys can't just focus on the diet. the diet comes as a result of poverty. back in the day you could make rice and beans and a salad and maybe some baked chicken for less money than you could buy food from mcdonalds or wendys. today, because these corporations make farmers grow crops for cow feed rather than for human food. meat is cheaper than fruits and vegetables. apples cost a dollar. lemons are 75 cents but a calorie rich burger is only 1dollar. good food just costs more today.
lineartechbd1600 1 year ago
I think you hit the nail on the head when you said diet. African Americans have the crapiest diet for the most part. We use to much fats, oils, salts in our food too. Hypertenision (High Blood Pressure) is mostly due to high sodium intake and having a thick waist line. We should look at food labels and look at the sodium content. Mostly anything canned has high sodium, soy sauce has high sodium. I try to advise those willing to listen on foods they should eat and not eat.
bizminded32 1 year ago
Nothin' but the truth, pardner....
BadNews88 1 year ago
I would have to agree with the dream reborn on this one them doctors want to get some of that free government money from people that go to these community health centers and to me the people who really need help are just walking sacks of money to them doctors
TheCyBeRkNoT 1 year ago
I bet africans are more likely to be HIV/AIDS candadiates and be susceptible to diseases like malaria than AFrican americans .
Pentazoid111 1 year ago
Genetics and southern cooking will kill anyone. Don't eat all that fried shit.. I mean you can, but it's terrible for you. I work at a shopping center. I see that a decent number of reacuring black customers end to buy less fruit and vegetables, and more greasy foods. That's what's killing you. My family doesn't eat like that. Other families I know don't eat like that. Fried foods/fast foods will kill you regardless of your race.
Ieatbabyseals 1 year ago
@Ieatbabyseals Thats all good points, i wish black folks would stop making mcdonalds, KFC, and popeyes their restaurants of choice and like you said incorporate more fruits and veggies in their system...
Mr707BAYAREA 1 year ago
@Mr707BAYAREA fuck u those food places are good lol
tyakack 1 year ago
@tyakack And thats exactly why your probably one of the many americans in this country thats fat, out of shape, and probably cant even walk a few blocks down the street without running out of breath wit ya tongue hangin out and shit.........
Mr707BAYAREA 1 year ago
@Mr707BAYAREA Well guess what? your WRONG
tyakack 1 year ago
dream, since you live in nyc, listen to gary null on 99.5fm weekdays at 1pm. he talks about food and how fried meats and processed foods kill people but his knowledge of this is very deep.
lineartechbd1600 1 year ago
you are talking about like cancer are caused by diet, this is a fact. also, there is the medical angle where it has been proven that doctors don't suggest surgeries / medications/additional tests as often with african americans. there is in fact a racism within diagnosing and treating of black people. this too is a proven fact. add all of this up and there is your ultimate answer. people with money are in better health because of access to medical treatment.
lineartechbd1600 1 year ago
good quality food places in black areas. then you have single moms w ho work hard and would rather get fast food than make good food. good food costs more, it didn't always cost more. then you have the type of diet that black people eat which is actually the 'western diet'. it has been proven that when japanese and carribeans come to america their rates of cancer etc, go up. white americans have way higher disease rates than other european and higher obesity. most of these diseases...
lineartechbd1600 1 year ago
it has to do with diet and access to health care and the fact that black people are poorer. poor people do not have access to healthcare and preventative medicine. a white guy might go to the doctor regularly and they might catch cancer earlier but the black guy doesn't get regular checkups and only goes to the doctor when it causes him pain or see sees blood in his urine, for example. poor people live in areas that are packed with many fast food places that sell bad food and there are fewer..
lineartechbd1600 1 year ago
Deut 28:59-61 Because God cursed us. Your
pastor won't dare say this to you because he
wants your money.
BarabbasLove 1 year ago
That said, whites in the US spend more on drugs than other races in general (Google "BMC Health Services Research 2008, 8:35" read the 5th paragraph in the discussion section). In order to increase profits (get more ppl consuming drugs, including blacks) drug companies analyze demographics, collecting data by race, gender, age, etc. and then target drugs to each demographic based on the correlations they find. Pill-popping culture has been more prevalent in the US, but Europe is descending.
jayleeds2006 1 year ago
Drug companies are interested in maximizing profits. They interpret research data to support their products. I do believe they take advantage of ignorance & that socioeconomic&cultural factors have historically impeded or distorted important health information regarding diet and exercise in underprivileged communities. So different communities will have different susceptibilities to drug company ads, as the quality&quantity of information circulating within each demographic will be different.
jayleeds2006 1 year ago
Some would postulate that the "reason" is because African Americans are the true Hebrew Israelites (descendants) and thus still under the curse of God as put forth in the bible (Old Testament), because we have not yet come out of the "desert" and returned to the One true god. *shrugs shoulders*
Truth bless.
ministerabdallah 1 year ago
In terms of the diet: it's even worse in the American South (Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia, Texas [if you can count that State as a Southern State], etc.). That Southern food tastes great, but it can do a number on your body if you're not careful. It could also have something to do with African-American lifestyles.
moonodude17 1 year ago
*if you don't take meds*
msniekababy 1 year ago
Of course it's the diet, combined w/ a sedentary lifestyle, I thought this was well known... And heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide if I'm not mistaken and at-least in the U.S. not just African Americans... And yes if you have hypertension it will kill you if you don't take mess of find some way to get it down naturally i.e. losing weight, eating healthy
msniekababy 1 year ago
"Maybe both theories are in play (O_-')?"
TOPBILLINGS88 1 year ago
The world wants Blacks dead and food is the fastest why to do that. Its the truth and experience is my research.
Crazii3Compl3xLuV3 1 year ago