Starting a new life in a different country comes with great and hidden challenges. However, one crucial aspect many people don't even think about is the impact of a complete nutritional change on our health which migration-process can trigger. Geography, habits, and culture are only a few factors that affect the way we eat in different parts of the world. Abandoning or substituting old, healthy, nutritional patterns without care and professional health counselling can be fatal."African Healthy Food Secrets" published in full colour with many graphic images, is an important course on the tremendous, unreported African assets on Health and Nutrition. It suggests a healthy balance between dominant foods of the new host-country and the waning healthy food-cultures of the immigrant's home country. "The needed mix on food, faith and ancestry" could provide solutions to the modern versus rural nutrition-clash-dilemma and modern chronic diseases. The African Continent is the "World ́s Biggest Home Pharmacy Store" full of rich medicinal plants, foods, nutrients and resources. However, our lack of awareness of these riches may cost many their health. Explore and discover African, century-old; nutrients adapted and passed on by our ancestors. There is so many tips, much knowledge, medicine, art and literature in the African food culture out there - unseen and unreported. Learn more about what we have, keep and harness these resources. A professional reflection on new ways to fix diversity-induced, nutritional health-problems with researched information and intercultural health awareness. It showcases how "cultural barriers" can be broken via culinary understanding. It is from our long human history and experience that the saying in German "Liebe geht durch den Magen" (The way to a man's heart goes through his stomach) is true in all cultures. Food is a wonderful "peacemaker"."Eat Yourself Healthy, because the right food is the best medicine" A useful Guide for all people wishing to journey through the "African Century-old Nutrition Secrets" to discover and make great changes in their lives. Knowing your genetic code and choosing the adequate nutrition is the key to controlling your body and keeping illness afar. What and how you eat defines your health and the image you see in the mirror every morning.

In this one-of-a-kind book, Dr. Rovenia M. Brock—known as Dr. Ro™ to fans of Black Entertainment Television’s Heart & Soul—reveals practical, satisfying ways for African American women to eat healthy, get fit, and overcome weight problems and the health risks that accompany them. From the “Big Ten” myths about miracle weight-loss diets to how eating the right foods can help you live longer and why soul food (if prepared properly) really can be good for you, Dr. Ro shows how many serious illnesses can be largely prevented—and even reversed. And you don’t need Oprah’s salary to do it. Using her own inspiring story and those of many other women as well, Dr. Ro discusses the health, fitness, and even cultural issues that are unique to black women, and outlines a diet and nutrition program to fit every lifestyle.

"African Health Secrets" teaches readers that the way they treat their bodies influences their physical health and well-being, and even their school lives. The book presents natural ways to achieve health and wellness, and shows readers how to apply these to their lives through healthy diet choices and the discipline of dance. It gives guidance about the proper way to eat and drink naturally, to enable the body to function correctly. It also addresses how nature affects the body, and how to practice self-care through a simpler, organic lifestyle. The ten chapters of the book include information on African home remedies, nutrition and exercise, the benefits of juicing, weight issues, and practical tips and advice for improving health. The material also reframes good eating habits, focusing on positive lifestyle choices, rather than dieting. "African Health Secrets" offers a refreshing approach that can be used in any course on health, nutrition, and wellness. Kukuwa Kyereboah-Nuamah is a faculty member at George Mason University's School of Dance. Born and raised in Ghana, West Africa, Professor Nuamah is an internationally acclaimed African dance performer and choreographer, and the founder of the Gye Nyame African Cultural Dance Company. She has over 25 years of cultural dance experience, which she incorporates into her work, showcasing her knowledge of the diverse African ethnic groups and their unique dances. Her own troupe of drummers and dancers performs all over the United States at schools, corporations, cultural shows, and festivals.

Even after two pregnancies, Diaka remains to receive compliments about her figure and has been asked multiple times how she has managed to avoid weight gain despite all the delicious meals she makes. Her secret: Easy, Delicious and Healthy African Recipes. Diaka has been creating and re-creating food and drink recipes passed down through generations from her African ancestry. The Sexy Ladies' Culinary Secret is a cookbook filled with recipes on old-fashion African Dishes, which are sure to give you not only taste-sensation, but also balance the different food groups for healthy digestion. Bon appEtit!

2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018 A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the most provocative touch points in our ongoing struggles over race. In this unique memoir, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty takes readers to the white-hot center of this fight, tracing the roots of his own family and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbecue, and all Southern cuisine. From the tobacco and rice farms of colonial times to plantation kitchens and backbreaking cotton fields, Twitty tells his family story through the foods that enabled his ancestors’ survival across three centuries. He sifts through stories, recipes, genetic tests, and historical documents, and travels from Civil War battlefields in Virginia to synagogues in Alabama to Black-owned organic farms in Georgia. As he takes us through his ancestral culinary history, Twitty suggests that healing may come from embracing the discomfort of the Southern past. Along the way, he reveals a truth that is more than skin deep—the power that food has to bring the kin of the enslaved and their former slaveholders to the table, where they can discover the real America together. Illustrations by Stephen Crotts

Even after two pregnancies, Diaka remains to receive compliments about her figure and has been asked multiple times how she has managed to avoid weight gain despite all the delicious meals she makes. Her secret: Easy, Delicious and Healthy African Recipes. Diaka has been creating and re-creating food and drink recipes passed down through generations from her African ancestry. The Sexy Ladies' Culinary Secret is a cookbook filled with recipes on old-fashion African Dishes, which are sure to give you not only taste-sensation, but also balance the different food groups for healthy digestion. Bon apptit!