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posted by n1 on Sunday May 17 2015, @02:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the !soul-food dept.

The Center for American Progress reports:

African Americans, a group plagued by significantly high rates of obesity, heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, and other physical ailments. A recent study suggests the answer may lie in the diets of their counterparts across the Atlantic Ocean in the rural parts of the Motherland.

In a study conducted at the University of Pittsburgh, 20 African Americans and 20 South Africans switched diets for two weeks. In this time, the Africans consumed traditional American food--meat and cheese high in fat content--while African Americans took on a traditional African diet--high in fiber and low in fat, with plenty of vegetables, beans, and cornmeal, with little meat.

After the exchange, researchers performed colonoscopies on both groups and found that those in the African diet group increased the production of butyrate, a fatty acid proven to protect against colon cancer. Members of the American diet group, on the other hand, developed changes in their gut that scientists say precede the development of cancerous cells.

[...]"we used biomarkers and looked at the proliferation rate that has been tied to cancer," Dr. Stephen J. O'Keefe, the lead researcher, told ThinkProgress. "We were astounded by the gravity and the magnitude of the changes [which] happened within two weeks."

 
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  • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Monday May 18 2015, @10:33AM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Monday May 18 2015, @10:33AM (#184451) Homepage

    1. "black" is an adjective, not a noun.

    It can be either. It can also be a verb.

    and the fact that the person in question is as American as I am. It makes their West African heritage identical in function to my German heritage, for example.

    You won't get named as a "German American" if you ever make the news. If anyone ever has to issue a description of you, you'll (I'm guessing) get called "white" or "caucasian," not "white American" or "European American."

    Which makes me wonder, how do the media cope with non-American black people? Do they have to find out what country they're from before they can call them anything?

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