The SaltShakers Curse

That was mostly what I found interest in the article , and also the fact that for such a dated work , the information that one can get from it is very much modern and now . I admit that after reading the article , I felt a sense of anger and unfairness that was doled out to American blacks and blacks in general . The author mentioned that white doctors back then dismissed the condition of blacks ' kidneys to retain more salt than normal as a defect . That reeks of discrimination , and just the fact that because

br they are blacks , their condition is merely dismissed as a defect ' is very unfair , and it made me detest discrimination even more . Of course discrimination still is very much apparent in society . Perhaps in the law , discrimination is stamped out , but we still carry that notion at times through our actions or words . With all that we have achieved in terms of science and technology , we now have access to a wide variety of medicines and services , but there is little we can do about the genes that we have inherited from our ancestors (at least for now , anyway The slave experience has altered the genes of blacks , and in this way discrimination was forever stamped on them and their ancestors in terms of health . I thought that the article was sufficient in giving enough information on the process of how the genes of black Americans who have been slaves were altered according to their environment . For those afflicted with this condition , there is really not much that one can do save for watching their diet and exercising regularly . There is no short-cut ' to a healthy person , despite what others may say . I think that with the flurry of new information on health that has been arising...