Black American health issues

It is past time that people take their health into their
own hands. You can not depend on doctors to keep you
healthy. Doctors do not deal with health. They deal with
health problems and diseases! For most health problems and
diseases doctors know exactly what to do. They know exactly
what drug to give you to knock it out or to superficially
keep it under control. They do not know how to keep you
healthy.

How many times has a doctor told you what to eat to stay
healthy? Probably none! How many times has a doctor told
you what supplement to take to stay healthy? Probably none!
How many times has a doctor told you what drug to take to
keep a condition under control? Probably Many, Many times!
Drugs can not keep you healthy. Drugs can help bring you
back to health or help keep a problem or condition under
control but can not keep you healthy. With proper nutrition
your own body is what keeps you healthy.

It is alleged that most of us overcook our food.

There is no way to half cook collards or turnip greens and
have them to taste as good as they are when fully cooked.
Can you imagine eating a raw sweet potato pie, macaroni and
cheese with raw or half-cooked macaroni or half-cooked
barbecue? Not hardly!

Would you believe potato salad made with half cooked or raw
potatoes? Not on your life! Half cooked chicken and
dressing sounds disgusting. What do you think about medium
rare chitterlings? Yuck! There is nothing wrong with the
way we cook our foods. Besides, even if we wanted to (which
I don't) it would be next to impossible to change the
eating habits of an entire culture.

Besides, we are the way that we are as humans because of
the fact that we do cook our food. If we didn't cook our
food we would need a gut like a gorilla to digest all that
raw food. We owe our nice sexy human shape to the fact
that our ancestors started cooking their food eons ago.

While we like our foods fully cooked, we do need to add a
few raw fruits and nuts to our diet to round out the health
benefits.

Among the many fruits and nuts that very good and good for
us there are some that a considered to be super foods, such
as, blueberries, pomegranate, almonds and brazil nut. They
not only nourish the body but they also help undo much of
the damage that was incurred as a result of normal
metabolism.

More than half of our population is deficient in vitamin D
especially darker skinned individuals. Vitamin D is
important for strong bones and especially for the health of
our immune system. Supplementing with Vitamin D is
necessary for optimum health.

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Willie Clayton is a retired software engineer and he is a
writer of health related articles. He has over 20 years
experience in natural health care research. You can find
out more about Black American Health Issues at:
http://www.black-planet-woman.com/