By 1960, the Nation of Islam had an estimated membership of 50,000 to 70,000 people. Converts removed pork and alcohol from their diet and ate one meal a day. They abstained from gambling, smoking, drinking, overeating, and buying on credit.
These advocate a holistic foods fought an uphill battle against an eating tradition with the roots in black America. The degree of their success still needs to be documented.
North Americans are historically more overweight than residents of any other nation in the world.
New Year’s Day Tradition calls for cooking “black-eyed peas, hog head, a whole hog head now, pig tails, pigs feet.”
