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African American Soul Food Linked To Early Death

October 3, 2018October 21, 2019Findthishere.com0

It’s rich and delicious, that Southern diet: plenty of fried food, cheesy casseroles, and sweet, sweet tea. But it’s deadly, especially to African-Americans. The fat, sugar and sodium that make Southern food so tempting also sends blood pressure up to killer levels. A study out Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows […]

Black NY Residents Ascend In The Most Fatal Overdoses

September 19, 2018July 18, 2019Findthishere.com0

New York City’s black population had the most drug overdose fatalities, with most of the deaths occurring in the Bronx, a where fentanyl epidemic was to blame, officials said. Eleven years have passed since the number of African American overdose deaths surpassed the number of fatal drug overdoses among whites or Hispanics, according to a […]