Why Being Healthy Is Hard for Negroes

Our Environment: When the Healthy Choice Isn't the Easy Choice
The spaces where we live, work, learn, shop, and play exert a powerful influence on our daily decisions, particularly what we eat and how active we are. For many Americans, their environment creates significant barriers to healthy living, making the path of least resistance one that leads to poor nutrition and sedentary habits.

When it comes to food, the deck is often stacked against making healthy decisions. Two major factors dominate this landscape: portion distortion and pervasive marketing.

Since the 1970s, portion sizes for almost all foods have increased substantially. Research consistently shows that people tend to eat more when faced with larger portions, often without realizing it. This has become the new normal, whether at home, in the grocery store, or at a restaurant, leading to consistent overeating.

The Constant Barrage of Marketing 
We live surrounded by the marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages. This is especially problematic for children, who are often too young to understand the persuasive intent of advertising. Food and beverage companies spend over $1.7 billion a year marketing to kids, with only a tiny fraction of that—approximately $280 million—promoting healthy products.

This marketing targets children through multiple channels: food packaging, school vending machines, recreation league scoreboards, toys, giveaways, contests, and product placements in commercials, movies, TV shows, video games, and on restaurant menus.

Furthermore, unhealthy junk food seems to be waiting around every corner. Checkout aisles lined with candy and sugary drinks are no longer confined to grocery stores. Today, it's difficult to find a pharmacy, hardware store, or even a car wash that isn't selling unhealthy options at the point of purchase.

While all Americans face these obstacles, lower-income and racial and ethnic minority groups often face additional, compounding barriers.

Food Deserts
Many low-income communities and communities with large minority populations are considered "food deserts." They lack supermarkets that carry healthy, affordable, high-quality foods. This forces residents to shop at local convenience stores where healthy options are typically less available and more expensive. Studies also show these neighborhoods have a higher density of fast-food restaurants and other eateries that are less likely to offer healthy choices.

Barriers to Physical Activity
Communities that support physical activity are critical for public health. Regular activity helps maintain a healthy weight, may reduce the risk of certain cancers, and can be beneficial after a cancer diagnosis by reducing the risk of recurrence and improving quality of life.

Access to parks, gyms, sidewalks, and recreation facilities is a key driver of active lifestyles. Conversely, a lack of access to these amenities is associated with a greater risk of obesity.

Low-income communities again face disproportionate challenges. Studies have found significantly fewer sports areas, parks, greenways, and bike paths in high-poverty areas. Barriers like heavy traffic, lack of street lighting, unleashed dogs, high crime rates, and absent sidewalks further inhibit physical activity.

The Role of Schools
Safe and accessible communities can help promote activity among children. Programs like Safe Routes to School, which creates opportunities for children to walk or bike safely, have been proven effective. Physical education (PE) in schools is also vital, yet only a small percentage of elementary, middle, and high schools provide daily PE for the entire school year. Nearly a quarter of schools do not require students to take any PE at all.

Conclusion: Building a Healthier Future
All these factors—from oversized portions and targeted marketing to food deserts and unsafe streets—add up to environments that contribute to obesity, poor health, and increased cancer risk. This reality underscores a critical public health imperative: we must work together to create homes, schools, workplaces, and communities where the healthy choice is not just available, but the easy choice.

this article was created by DeepSeek.com from the transcript of this source material and edited by Brother Mykah for yahawashi.ca

Black Health Decolonized

INTRO

According to Yahawah the true black God of the bible and the God of the negro persuant to Joel 2:27, there is a specific method you must follow to decolonize your health. To decolonize your health you must decolonize your Mind, Diet, Physical Activity and Medicine. Doing this will give you the best chance at a long, healthy and enjoyable physical life and will guarantee that you have an amazing eternal one. Let’s break down how to decolonize the various parts of your life beginning with the most important one, your mind.

MIND

To decolonize your mind you must throw away the mind of the oppressor and model your mind after the true black Messiah.

• Romans 12:2 be transformed by the renewing of your mind
• 1 Cor 2:14-16 the mind of Christ

• Eph 4:17-23 renew your mind
• 1 John 2:1-6 you MUST walk as Yahawashi walked
• Romans 8:1 no condemnation for those who walk after the Spirit

• Gal 5:16-26 what it means to walk after the spirit

• Rev 13:16 The mark of the beast is the mind of the beast

• Ezekiel 9:1-6 the mark of Yahawah is the mind of Yahawah

• Rev 3:18 Buy and sell

• Rev 13:9-11 buying and selling in this context is spiritual and physical, both portions already occurring in the 15th century under the spanish inquisition and the spiritual portion expected to repeat itself with the famine of the word^[1],^[2],^[3]
• Rev 14:9-11 buying and selling is worshipping the beast and his image

• Acts 8:14-20 You cannot literally buy or sell spiritual gifts
• Proverbs 23:23 Spiritual meaning of buy or sell

• Accept the truth and don’t let it go!

• If we don’t accept the truth we love lies constituting the mark of the beast.

• 2 Thess 2:8-12

Mental health

• Sirach 30:21-25 don’t worry be happy

• Matthew 6:25-34 why you shouldn’t worry about anything

 

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[1] Sourced 13/06/25 from duke university press Few stereotypes of Luso-Brazilian history have endured more tenaciously than the concept of the merchant as Jew, crypto-Jew, or foreigner. The association of the mercantile profession with New Christians has been particularly strong for the seventeenth century, with the terms burguesia and cristãos-novos often being used interchangeably in works about that period.1 The political, social, and religious factors which contributed to the concentration of New Christians in commerce are familiar and need not be elaborated here. The converse theoretical explanation is that Portuguese gentiles (or Old Christians) abandoned the field to the interlopers because of their inability or unwillingness to compete with the New Christians’ supposed racial aptitude for trade and their clannish favoritism in business practice. As commerce became ever more linked in the popular mind with the despised crypto-Jew, fear of guilt by association increased the aversion of Old Christians to the mercantile arts, ultimately leaving Portuguese trade in the hands of the New Christians. To contemporaries the problem appeared so compelling that in 1629 D. Felipe IV called a council of ecclesiastics and jurists to consider measures for dealing with the New Christians, whose monopoly of trade allegedly caused prices to soar “thus sucking all the money from the populace, so that there was nowhere to be found a rich man who was not of the [Hebrew] nation.”2 

[2] Sourced 13/06/25 from duke university press I deem it well and it pleases me that the goods and property of the people of that nation [New Christian] of whatever quality they may be, of all my kingdoms and possessions, both native-born and foreigners, who should be arrested or condemned by the Holy Office for the said crimes of heresy, apostasy, or judaism, shall not be sequestered and inventoried at the time of arrest, nor shall they be incorporated into my royal fisc at the time of the condemnatory sentences15 . . . [for the reason that] . . . the same businessmen would form a Company in which they and the other vassals of this Crown may enter with such capital and property as they can afford, on account of which, without any other expense of my royal treasury, thirty-six galleons will go to sea . . . giving guard to the vessels and property that go and come from the said conquests [Brazil] and will keep them secure from the enemy, with evident utility to the kingdom and its vassals and to the duties of my customshouses. . . .16

[3] Sourced 13/06/25 from Wikipedia For most of Portugal's history, few non–Roman Catholics lived in the country; those who did could not practice their religion freely. They had been kept out of the country for three centuries by the Inquisition.