Posted on 09/08/2014 11:10:02 PM PDT by Steelfish
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 Psychologist: Minorities Are Obese Because of Racism Are racial microaggressions making you fat? One professor at an N.J. public university thinks so. By Katherine Timpf
A study by Rutgers University Newark claims that minorities are obese because racial microaggressions cause them to eat fast food and avoid exercise.
When you are exposed to negative stereotypes, you may gravitate more toward unhealthy foods as opposed to healthy foods, said Luis Rivera, the experimental social psychologist who conducted the study.
You may have a less positive attitude toward watching your carbs or cutting back on fast food, and toward working out and exercising, he explained.
Rivera said Hispanics who believed negative stereotypes about themselves were three times more likely to be overweight or obese evidence that the obesity comes from believing the stereotypes.
He said that these stereotypes were spread not only through the mass media, but also subconsciously through seemingly harmless social interactions, including so-called microaggressions.
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Or maybe it’s just genetics.
Sure it’s not because of climate change?
I see, so their own racism makes them obese.
Makes sense.
And here I thought that it was because of global warming. Boy do I feel silly.
Culture plays a part and whites have little impact on the culture of minorities.
/S
liberalism the scapegoat philosophy
It’s always somebody else’s fault.
It seems a very convuluted way of getting racism into the picture. Its more likely because they are poor, and therefore eat cheap low-quality junk food, which has a lot of calories, which makes them put on weight, which in turn makes them obese. Once you get a taste for that stuff, its very hard to give it up.
Dang
I eat poorly, dont exercise eat way too much take out.
I must suffer from racism.
And all this time I thought I was just old and lazy.
What a bunch of grant seeking BS.
If minorities are fat because of racism, that must mean that whites are fat because they’re racists.
wow. we really spend money on absolute bullsh1t.
It CAN’T be because of subsidized idleness...welfare, EBT cards, etc.
So this explains Michelle Obama’s racism- or does it refute the thesis since she’s against junk food. I am confused.
When you are exposed to negative stereotypes, you may gravitate more toward unhealthy foods as opposed to healthy foods, said Luis Rivera, the experimental social psychologist who conducted the study.”
Rivera needs to keep experimenting.
Because they are VICTIMS.
Don’t forget, racism also makes black women straighten and color their hair so they look like white women.
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