Blood Sugar - 9780816696185

Blood SugarRacial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America\nAuthor(s): Anthony Ryan Hatch\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816696185, 978-0816696185\nSynopsis\nWhy do African Americans have exceptionally high rates of hypertension, diabetes, and obesity? Is it their genes? Their disease-prone culture? Their poor diets? Such racist explanations for racial inequalities in metabolic health have circulated in medical journals for decades. Blood Sugar analyzes and challenges the ways in which metabolic syndrome has become a major biomedical category that medical researchers have created to better understand the risks high blood pressure, blood sugar, body fat, and cholesterol pose to people. An estimated sixty million Americans are well on the way to being diagnosed with it, many of them belonging to people of color.\n\nAnthony Ryan Hatch argues that the syndrome represents another, very.