Digging at the root of hunger

Digging at the root of hunger

Watch the video linked directly above. Watch this video and think about the following article in todays Birmingham News.

"The incidence of heart failure among young adults is strikingly higher in blacks than in whites, according to a study being published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study was conducted by researchers from the University of California San Francisco, Hackensack University Medical Center and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Researchers looked at the medical histories of 5,115 whites and blacks ages 18 to 30 at the start of the study. Over 20 years, 27 participants developed heart failure, and 26 of them were black, the study reported. The researchers found that high blood pressure, obesity and chronic kidney disease - early signs of heart malfunction noted in early adulthood - were more often found in participants who developed cardiac failure.

The findings underscore racial disparity in the development of heart failure and have implications for strategies aimed at the prevention of the disease, researchers said. Dave Parks -- "