African-American Healthy: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Health
Richard W. Walker, Jr.
Square One, Jun 15 2011, $15.95
www.squareonepublishers.com
ISBN 9780757003615
Though this super health book guide targets African Americans who as a group are afflicted by cardiovascular disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, kidney failure, and cancer much more than any other ethnic group. Richard W. Walker, Jr. provides an insightful easy to follow book that anyone can use. In fact the authors makes his case for everyone to follow a healthy lifestyle; as he provides in his easy as “1, 2, D3” self-help book. Dr. Walker explains the different at risk issues and related simple preventative applications that he learned as a physician to mostly African-American patients. He focuses on the impact of obesity and that of Vitamin D deficiency especially on those with high levels of melanin. The change from a culture out in the sun to an inside lifestyle by African-Americans (and many other Americans like me) requires modern day remedies that Dr. Walker offers. As a Sephardic Jew with a relatively high level of melanin, I found the sections on high blood pressure (which I suffer from), stroke and heart attack especially enlightening as did my much whiter skin Ashkenazi husband. Living up to its title, this is an instructive tome that facilitates an uncomplicated approach towards a healthier life.
Harriet Klausner
Richard W. Walker, Jr.
Square One, Jun 15 2011, $15.95
www.squareonepublishers.com
ISBN 9780757003615
Though this super health book guide targets African Americans who as a group are afflicted by cardiovascular disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, kidney failure, and cancer much more than any other ethnic group. Richard W. Walker, Jr. provides an insightful easy to follow book that anyone can use. In fact the authors makes his case for everyone to follow a healthy lifestyle; as he provides in his easy as “1, 2, D3” self-help book. Dr. Walker explains the different at risk issues and related simple preventative applications that he learned as a physician to mostly African-American patients. He focuses on the impact of obesity and that of Vitamin D deficiency especially on those with high levels of melanin. The change from a culture out in the sun to an inside lifestyle by African-Americans (and many other Americans like me) requires modern day remedies that Dr. Walker offers. As a Sephardic Jew with a relatively high level of melanin, I found the sections on high blood pressure (which I suffer from), stroke and heart attack especially enlightening as did my much whiter skin Ashkenazi husband. Living up to its title, this is an instructive tome that facilitates an uncomplicated approach towards a healthier life.
Harriet Klausner
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