Good health for African Americans

by Barbara M. Dixon

Good Health for African Americans is the first and only book dedicated to improving the health of all black Americans, written by a nationally recognized nutritionist and dynamic health educator. It defines all the complex issues that account for the enormous health gap between black and white Americans at every income level, along with a self-help program for improving health. The most current information, guidelines, and solutions to personal health problems appear nowhere else. There is a crisis in black health. African Americans live six years less than the national average and that difference is increasing. In her daily work, Barbara Dixon sees the excessive toll that diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, addictions, stress, and other major disorders take on the lives of black Americans. This disproportionate health statistic is tied to both past and present causes. Historical research traces modern health problems to the moment when the first African was captured for the slave t