{"id":6041,"date":"2024-02-03T06:01:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T06:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=6041"},"modified":"2024-02-13T06:04:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T06:04:00","slug":"the-religion-corner-living-with-type-2-diabetes-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=6041","title":{"rendered":"THE RELIGION CORNER: Living With Type 2 Diabetes \u2014 Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

by\u00a0Lyndia Grant<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Your body is a temple\u2026 \u2014 1st Corinthians 6:19-20<\/em><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s talk about the problem. This period in American history dates back to 1790, and for those enslaved ones, food was still scarce, thus the \u201cthrifty genes\u201d protected them. If you research the documentation found at the National Archives and Records Administration, slaves received rations in America.<\/p>\n

Africans who managed to survive the slave trade here in America arrived on the shores very strong. The majority of them worked in fields from sunup to sundown, six days per week, and in many cases, seven days a week. Slaves ate what we call \u201csoul food\u201d scraps, like hog maws, chitterlings, pigtails, pig feet and pig ears, and they drank milk from a trough alongside other animals! No longer in their homeland, our people ate whatever was made available to them \u2014 scraps.<\/p>\n