Shame on you Xeni and BoingBoing for encouraging this and celebrating how our low income folks are forced to eat. ONE packet of ramen contains 7g of fat and 861 mg of sodium. African Americans are at the highest risk for diabetes and other health problems related to food and it has NOTHING to do with the color of their skin. What should go viral, what should be celebrated is folks taking back their health for little to no cost by GROWING their own food. By creating communities where healthy food and vegetables are readily available and affordable so they arenāt forced to consume this crap that ultimately will kill them. It makes me absolutely sick that you are all getting such a kick out of this.
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Aggggh fat. 
Shhhs.
Actually blacks do apparently have a higher genetic higher risk of hypertension and renal disease. Not to dispute your point, I just wanted to add that thereās actually additional reasons for them to eat well.
Now THAT I think we can all agree on.
Proof?
Thereās a major long term study of blacks and kidney disease thats been going on for years.
Google āAASKā for more than youād ever want to know
āESRDā means kidney failure
http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/factsheets/kidney.htm
African Americans are about three and a half times more likely to develop ESRD than whites.
And it looks like maybe they have a candidate geneā¦
African Americans have double the risk of end-stage renal disease compared to white Americans
African Americans have double the risk of end-stage renal disease compared to white Americans
In the United States, African Americans have approximately twice the risk of end-stage renal disease compared to white Americans, despite a similar prevalence in earlier stages of chronic kidney disease. A large study co-authored by George Washington University (GW) researcher Dominic Raj, M.D., identifies factors that mediate differences in the progression of chronic kidney disease between black patients and white patients, as well as among black patients, in order to reduce the excess burden of end-stage renal disease and its complications in black patients.
The findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, examines the effects of variants in the gene encoding apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) on the progression of chronic kidney disease, according to whether patients have two copies of high-risk APOL1 variants (APOL1 high-risk group) or zero or one copy (APOL1 low-risk group). Renal risk variants in APOL1 were associated with higher rates of end-stage renal disease and progression of chronic kidney disease that were observed in black patients as compared with white patients, regardless of diabetes status.
Alright, this lady is ridiculously entertaining, but I really hope that low-income families arenāt seeing her recipes as good advice. I do love that she shows that cooking can be easy and quick and she does have some good tricks, but none of this stuff is healthy. I grew up in a poor household. I used to plan out our grocery list and meals and we usually kept our grocery trips to $50 a week and were spending about the same as her per meal. We ate much healthier. Iāve since learned ways to prepare more foods that are even tastier and even cheaper. Some of the problem is lack of knowledge on nutrition and how to cook and even the wide variety of foods out there to cook. These are even bigger barriers than access, because people are experiencing this problem even where there is access to grocery stores and access is improving (slowly). Iād love to see Sista Girl cooking up the stuff in Leanne Brownās new SNAP friendly cookbook: https://8e81c55f4ebf03323905b57bf395473796067508.googledrive.com/host/0B2A2SnkA9YgxaHdzbEhGSmJOZDg/good-and-cheap.pdf
That would be an awesome team, because Sista Girl is so entertaining and feels more relatable, but Leanneās got the goods!
*Also, Iām nth-ing the call for halfing the packets on ramen and using them as a base to hold your actual nutrition
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Have a look at the EGFR calculator from the National Kidney Foundation - youāll notice that race, specifically African American, is a modifier for EGFR.
http://www.kidney.org/professionals/kdoqi/gfr_calculator.cfm
Other races may also have elevated risk, but AFAIK most of the data that informed the development of the EGFR formula comes from research done on the East coast of the US. I think the thinking around this is that black men and women typically have higher muscle mass than caucasians and consequently have higher serum creatinine levels.
Studies of kidney disease disproved several beliefs held dear by the medical establishment. I think word is finally getting out that low protein diets do NOT benefit the elderly. And they studied that hard, because the food companies wanted to be able to claim they could create food for seniors with the ideal balance of amino acids. All they did was debunk the whole concept.
So donāt give any particular credence to any expertsā speculation about ESRD.
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