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Kennedy Fried Chicken and Pizza

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Only when I am very hungry and have no other food choices to make, do I go to chicken joints. The food is so greasy and pre-cooked, there is no way I can crave for it.  Their prices are low which is probably why they stay in the neighborhood. If people would just make healthier choices, then maybe there would be better quality restaurants in our neighborhoods.

Funny, all of sudden the government is concern about our health. Telling people to work-out and bashing fast foods, yet, every time I go into a poor neighborhood, I see the same thing: Chinese restaurants, chicken joints and pizza shops galore.  Papa John’s and Little Caesars seem the same. I don’t understand the argument. Is one really better than the other? Why can’t the government put their money where their mouths are and put healthy restaurants with low prices in poor neighborhoods?

The Grapefruit Story

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Back in November I went to Florida, during the Thanksgiving holiday, Mother Jules (a mother from my church in Jacksonville) gave my family a bag full of grapefruits.

Now, before I went to Florida, I was sick. It was hard for me to breathe regularly. I think it was sinus issues.  When I got to Florida, the clean air and good food did my body a whole lot of good. Nevertheless, the entire time I was thinking about going back to New York and eventually experiencing the same head aches and nose runs. Until she gave us those grapefruits!

When we got back to the Bronx, I ate one (sometimes two) every day and my body begin to feel a whole lot better. Of course I made other healthy food choices like drinking tea and eating as fresh as possible. But I think the grapefruit really worked for me. After all, they were directly picked from a tree in her yard. Now, I can barely stand the  the taste of Price Choice’s grapefruit.