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African-American Eating Habits
One of the major issues of younger educated African-American adults is dietary and how foods are prepared. In the black culture "soul food" has been the primary diet of African-American people for hundreds of years. "Soul food" is Mostly fat, sugar,lard and leftover pig parts. Unfortunately these unhealthy eating habits has led to very high rates of diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and cancer. Lamont Thomas and Jade Sanders are the parents of the child in this article that we are discussing. These people are an African-American couple residing in Atlanta,Georgia. Atlanta has one of the highest populations of African-Americans in the United States. There is a fair chance that this couple does it know a healthy black person over
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