The Role of Diet in Racial Health Disparities Webinar
The Role of Diet in Racial Health Disparities Webinar
With death rates as much as 6 times higher in Black America than white America, COVID-19 pointed a glaring spotlight at racial health disparities in the United States. I address the question of why Black Americans live sicker and die younger than their white counterparts way before the pandemic started. Even with the same education and…
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From my understanding, the reason for higher sickle cell anaemia in African populations is due to the higher exposure to malaria, which is an even larger selective pressure than sickle cell anaemia. Those with sickle cell are less affected by malaria, and hence are less likely to die from malaria, and hence more likely to pass on their genes. This has resulted in a natural selective pressure that is likely to have translated to African American populations when people have moved continents over time.
Thanks for the webinar on this verh important issue!
Plants are evil mass murderers. Plant based subsidised vegetable seed oils, sugar and white flour are present in most processed addictive junk food: doughnut's, biscuits, breakfast cereals, cakes, desert's, soda, fruit smoothies etc. Deep frying foods in high omega 6, unstable, heart attack causing vegetable oils should be avoided. Plant oils, sugar and flour are turned into saturated fat in the body resulting in nearly half of black women being obese. In addition plants provide tobacco, cocaine, marijuana, and sugar for alcohol production. Also god kicked us out of paradise when Eve eat an apple.
SORRY IM NOT INTERESTED IN HIS LECTURES BECAUSE I' M NOT OF EITHER RACE & my immunity is better in my own skin!!
Before even watching, thank you for work Dr. Greger. I've been big on your content for a few years now and value your input.
Thank you, Dr. Greger!
Oh-oh! Is even Dr Greger getting on the politically correct bandwagon? I admired his single-minded focus on health. I can get my overdose of top-down politics or morals everywhere else.
Is baldness a form of aging?
It's stupid to throw around the term "white supremacy" uncritically. There is virtually no one on board with real white supremacy and most accusations about it can be traced back to some application of the ecological fallacy.
It's basically become a catch-all term for everything woke people don't like. Even "hard work," "being rational" and "being on time" got called white supremacist by the Smithsonian.
We should be sensitive to helping people find ways to eat items similar to the cuisine they are used to. That said, I did not grow up eating buckwheat groats, mixed beans, and mixed berries for breakfast. I did not grow up eating cruciferous vegetable stew for dinner. I did not grow up drinking green tea, hibiscus tea, or lemon balm tea. I did not grow up eating black mission figs. It seems to me that once you decide to eat whole food plant based, you can find stuff you like and you will start to associate the new foods with satisfaction.
This is amazing and what I'll be doing my dissertation on.
Thank you for this great video. I definitely will be sharing this with friends and family.
Thank you so much, Dr Greger!
Good show, doc! Well yeah, if discrimination leads to more stress, a lower immune system, higher blood pressure and a higher chance of being over-weight then it's not surprise these colored folks are dying a lot more.
I don't live in US, I've only visited several times, but even from a popular culture like TV and movies, you can always see this stereotypical love for fried chicken with the African-Americans, and fast food in general. Their eyes lit up and widen when they hear of it, etc. It's considered funny and all, but I find it sad and disrespectful. Of course socio-economic status plays a huge role whether you can afford healthy or healthier nutritional options for you and your family. I just feel TV shows and movies depicting these types of stereotypes are not helping. Why can't the creators, writers and producers of these popular shows make a main beloved character to be vegan, or at least conscious of bad food choices and bring attention to this problem causing harm not only to one's health but also destroying the planet! If youngsters and wider population of viewers saw their favorite protagonists eating healthy vegan diet, instead of craving or "rewarding themselves" with fried chicken, donuts, all kinds of fast food and gulping down gallons of sugary sodas all the time, they would certainly try and emulate this behavior or be at least more open to it when confronted with health problems caused by bad diet and lifestyle choices later in their lives. Positive role models in popular culture are needed! Just my 2 cents. 🙂
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Woke nutrition
Great questions and answers. Thanks Doc
How not to age?! Great!
As an African American, I appreciate this webinar. Thank You!!
Thank you for this production, I'm making black eyed peas tonight!
Go outside between 10-2. Really? I don't think so
Thank you for putting out this webinar! It was informative, tactful, and added appreciation must be given for highlighting a black vegan author and restaurant at the end. I watch all of Dr. Greger's Nutrition Facts videos and always wondered does the science change any by race.
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I am a 62 year old woman who has recently developed urge incontinence and ridged toe nails. Anyone with any ideas regarding these issues?
The political left has reached its racist rhetoric into all parts of intellectual culture, diet and health is now in their scopes.
Everything is racism. I’m so sick of this. If you make poor diet and lifestyle choices, you get sick. Businesses are built where there is high demand. There’s not much demand for fruits and veg in black communities. Therefore, fast food restaurants are ubiquitous, and health food stores are scarce.
Maybe black entrepreneurs should open some health food stores. Since the black community in the US literally has the wealth of a top ten country in the world in GDP, there’s no excuses. Zero responsibility is taken for the black community’s poor health by the members in that strata. And why would they, the media around every corner tells them they are victims and the whole system is against them. All lies.
Leftists like Mr. Greger just love to wallow in skin color while feigning colorblindness. How much better the world would be if he followed Martin Luther King Jr.'s admonition to judge people by the content of the character and not the color of their skin.
I am still considering eating fish for usable omega 3. I don’t want to risk getting Alzheimer’s or brain issues.
I remember that black people lived a lot longer than white people! About 35 years ago
"Fat Mama" or "Fat Baba" -Syndrome !
I can't eat like this stomach will not come down to normal, pain every day and getting even worse! Don't know what to do and what to change?