Comments on: Proactive Health Must Become a Priority. https://thyblackman.com/2017/03/14/proactive-health-must-become-a-priority/ Black News 24/7 Online for the Black Community. Fri, 24 Mar 2017 13:38:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Stephanie https://thyblackman.com/2017/03/14/proactive-health-must-become-a-priority/comment-page-1/#comment-276652 Fri, 24 Mar 2017 13:38:33 +0000 http://thyblackman.com/?p=65937#comment-276652 This is one of my favorite topics! Black people, we do need to take better care of ourselves. Let me add my two cents. First off, I am a sista, community gardener, health conscious soap maker. From the perspective of being a gardening partner in Detroit and soap maker, my observations tell me that collectively, we seem to be more concerned with looking good, eating good (not really) and smelling fancy. Now that said, we don’t know what we are putting on, how it’s produced, farmed or manufactured and where it comes from. Those things are important because they affect our health. Our lack of education and lack of desire to know and grow is why we are such a sickly people. We load our minds & bodies with toxic material every day. As a gardener, I found it difficult to get the adults & young adults engaged. The youth are easier to reach as their minds are still stirring in curiosity. As a soap maker, I find that mainly non-black races buy from me both online and at markets. They seem to connect better with the message, and the ingredients. My black customers tend to be women over 50 (that are health conscious) which is awesome but not enough. All I’m saying is, we need to educate ourselves and break the yoke of ignorance placed upon us by mass media. I notice many people prefer to pop a pill than break a bad habit. The doctor tells you that you have irritable bowel syndrome and food allergies. They treat you for the symptoms (tell you to take a pill for life) instead of the root cause, candida, parasites, gut imbalance, which can be healed with food and herbs at a lesser cost. It hurts me to witness the lack of knowledge & understanding.

Lastly, eating organic does not cost more than eating non-organic. It depends upon where you are shopping. Meals just need to made at home. I’m a single mom of two sons and we’ve been doing it for many years even as my income transitioned from a corporate job to a home based business! My sons are now 22 & 16.

Peace & Love
Stephanie 🙂

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