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health advisory Hospital Health advisory 2007-11-16 5:20:38

i have read that african americans ,on average have poor deit conscious lifestyles. as a result they suffer a disproportionate amout of diseases such as heart disease and diabetes.Is it just a cultural thing where they were raised in households that had poor dietary choices?

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They eat it for the same reason i do, it tastes better. Fatty foods are very good tasting. I think they have the same attitude i do, have a good time while you are alive. If i had the choice to have a lot less fun and live longer or more pleasure and have a shorter life, I would choose the latter. It's more of a cultural thing than a race thing by far.

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its mainly because the poorer poplations, not just african-americans, have more access to processed, fatty foods,

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Sadly enough, a lot of them are unskilled and have low paying jobs. Sometimes they don't have the proper fundation or guidence to show how thing should be done the right manner; when they were younger!

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why just lump African Americans.

what about the Native Americans who drink alot of alcohol? the poor white trash who spend each meal at Burger King and Taco Bell? don't forget about the upper middle class Whites who eat alot of red meat and over butter their bread? how 'bout the Mexicans who cook everything in corn oil and eat very few vegetables? the Indians who cook with oils, cheeses, and breads? ............

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Both cultural and poor diet choices. Southern women love to cook and fried food and fatty foods and high starch foods is part of that culture. Eating is a big part of the mechanics of the family. I think that education is the key and parents being accountable for what their children eat. It is not just the african americans that eat so poorly, the majority of americans from all races and both male and female. We have become a lazy society where TV, computer dictates how we live. I see a trend with healthy eating, now if the tv was turned off a few nights a week and was replaced with exercise we may all live to be a 100.

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First of all, most American's have poor diets.