Cultural Diet

Our American culture is impacted by high obesity rates. We often are sucked into fad diet plans and exercises. Particularly in the black community we do not put our health first. Our cultural diet does not consist of dishes with health in mind. We are riddled with obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and etc. All of these disease can be prevented by diet. Why is my community plagued with these preventable diseases? There is a lack of consciousness and education of health.
The working or unemployed does not have time to think about what we are putting into our bodies. If it is feeding a family before you go to work, you are going to choose the quickest meal. The fastest meals are often the unhealthiest. If it is unemployment you are going to choose
Diet is a lifestyle and we need to change our lifestyle and mindset. I know that if a certain lifestyle was blanketed over our community that it would be one less problem. I know that if the majority of us adopted a plant-based lifestyle our health would thrive. Most people do not realize how many choices they have everyday. We can choose to feed a child instant oatmeal instead of a donut. We can choose not to spend $20 at a fast food place for a family dinner. The way I want to provide information on health is by entering the medical field. I have not decided on what specific profession yet. Whenever I have a patient black or not, I would recommend a plant-based diet if it fit their situation. Black people usually do not even go to the doctor because they feel that their problems are not taken seriously. I hope that by me being a black doctor that the fear of being ignored would end. I know that I could provide information on the diet to patients because I am a vegan. I hope that they can relate to me and know that healthy eating is not a rich or white thing considering that I am poor and black. I am proud of my culture and heritage and I do not want it to be sullied by something like unhealthy