Religion for Black Americans represent a huge portion of their lives. The most abundant religions are Southern Baptist, Fundamentalist and Muslim (Dayer-Berenson, 2014). Beyond this religions they also believe in the healing power of certain individual and region itself. For the Black Americans that are Muslim, the nurse have to take to consideration that such individual may've a different diet do to their beliefs. Specifically, muslims say that you are what you eat. This means that they should not consume “filthy food” like pork, pork products, black-eyed peas, and kidney beans. The Ramadan should be taken in account too since the patient will be fasting for thirty days and will only eat one meal in the evening, this may interfere with healing
