African American Food Research Paper

Introduction of the Problem How a community health agency could market healthy food options to African American women with low income? African American women who live in low income communities, are subject more for less supermarkets that are geared to high calorie, and very low nutrients in food. In low income areas, there is a higher amount of marketing for fast food, normally you will see a McDonalds, Burger King, and KFC chicken to name a few (Kovesdy, Csaba P.; Furth, Susan; Zoccali, Carmine,(2017). The problem that we are having in Low-income communities is that because there are low income the people don’t think that they can afford healthy options.. It is cheaper to buy unhealthy foods, because that is what they can afford.Soul food

In these gatherings, the slaves would bring watermelon, fried fish, sweet cakes, sweet potatoes pies, fried chicken, collard green, black-eyed pies, and hot water cornbread.

Where the bad choices of food began, in back in slavery. The masters would throw out the scraps of food for the Slaves to eat. So, a lot of the food habits that African American women have started when they had to be creative on foods to make eatable. In slavery with most African Americans were poor. African Americans did grow their own fruits and vegetables. Since, African Americans didn’t have a lot of money they can only afford the scarps of the meats (Kovesdy, Csaba P.; Furth, Susan; Zoccali, Carmine,(2017). In slavery Soul Food originated because slaves had to live off the land. As I mentioned earlier African slaves only could afford scraps of meat. So, they did a lot of fishing, and killing animals in the area. Some of the foods that are considered soul food is catfish, rabbits, black eye peas, chitlins, collard greens, ham hocks, etc. A lot of the seasoning that was used to cook the food was pork. Which eating that much pork and the salt intake that pork has, leads to a lot of obesity, and other diseases ( Groth, Susan W.,Simpson, Alison H.,Fernandez, I. Diana

High blood pressure normally started in the arteries.There are different stages of high blood pressure, there is stage 1 and stage 2 of high blood pressure. High blood pressure is caused from being overweight, little no exercise, genetics,smoking, family history high blood pressure, salt, alcohol, old age, stress, and the food intake that is the diet. High blood pressure is one of the top that kills African American women each year. High blood pressure mostly affects the ages between 40 through 70 (Kovesdy, Csaba P.; Furth, Susan; Zoccali,