What's Really Going On????

Hey family hope things are going good for you. I have to ask "What’s going on with us today? We are number 1 in some of the most deadly diseases we can find. AIDS/HIV, Diabetes, Heart Diseases, that’s just to name a few, what’s going on with us family? I for one have diabetes and high blood pressure and not happy with myself and one of the major factors was what I was putting in my mouth. We can prevent a bunch of these diseases if we watch what we eat and I say let’s get busy. We have been a people that have overcome so much adversity that we should be able to get a handle on this.

Yes people are always having walks, programs, conferences and things like that but we have to one at a time do something. What might you ask??? When was the last time you have a sit down dinner with your family and I not talking about the local restaurant, but I mean you cooked everything and everyone sat down and ate, talked and be a family. Now again you might ask what does that have to do with anything well family you know what you put in your food you don't know what the guy down the block puts in his. I can remember when we ate some of the same foods that we eat today and we didn't have half of the problems we have today, why you might ask well life style has one big part, with microwaves, pre-package foods, and this busy life style that we have now we have gotten more and more unhealthily.

Family let commit to once a week to start let's have dinner together, if you can't cook I will come and cook for you, but let’s start somewhere. You might be surprise to find out something about your family you didn't know, but everyone has to put down the blackberries, laptop, the PSP's, and just sit and talk to each other. Remeber it's all about food, it's all about love, it's all about family.

Here is a few links on diabetes:

http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/index.htm

http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/africanamerican/

http://www.ndep.nih.gov/media/FS_AfricanAm.pdf