Importance of Health

I was in the barbershop waiting to get a haircut and was reading a article in one of the magazines that had some disturbing information. The article was about heath and it pointed out that Black men are the least heath conscience group of people. Black men suffer far worse health than any other racial group in America. There are a number of reasons for this. They include racial discrimination, a lack of affordable health services, poor health education, cultural barriers, and poverty, employment that does not carry health insurance, insufficient medical and social services catering for Black men. The life expectancy for a Black male child born in 2004 is 69.5 years, compared with 75.7 years for White males born the same year, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Black men are more likely to get and die from prostate cancer than men of any other racial or ethnic group in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As black men we have the responsibility to act as fathers and husbands and lead our households. We need to educate ourselves and begin to take care of ourselves. I found these facts very disturbing. Brothers we have to do better so that we can raise our children and live long enough to have a positive impact on the community.