Ruby Mendenhall: How stress gets under the skin
David Satcher, former U.S. Surgeon General, noted in his 2005 research that if health disparities were eliminated there would be approximately 80,000 fewer African-American deaths each year. According to the documentary Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick, the 80,000 deaths is the equivalent of an airplane full of African-Americans falling out of the sky every single day every year. Unfortunately, remarks Ruby Mendenhall, “we don’t fully understand the complexity o