Growing up as a young African – American male in the inner city, the food options were like moving through a minefield of empty calories, high fat content and next to zero nutritional value. A diet like this could only lead to poor health. Have it your way: diabetes, hypertension, obesity, heart disease — the list goes on. While some may judge this as an excuse, there is profound truth in the saying “we don’t know what we don’t know.” I was simply doing the only thing I knew: eating junk food as a staple, which I did for nearly…
