'Our Southern hospitality gets the best of us.'
The statistics are scary.
Of all the African-American deaths in this country in 2001, 33 percent of the men and 40 percent of the women died of cardiovascular disease.
More than three-fourths of this country's African-American women are classified as overweight; ditto for almost two-thirds of the black men.
These are only a few of the figures the American Heart Association has gathered in its quest to stem diet-related death and disease among African-Americans, and February's confluence of Black History Month and American Heart Month throws the figures into high relief.
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