If my experience is any guide, it’s quite common for middle aged black women to be overweight.
Not everyone has thin genes. She has a high stress job and probably little energy left to jog 5 miles a day.
People ought to give her a break. It is really stupid to think that the public will decide it’s healthy to be obese because of Dr. Benjamin’s size.
I’ve lost 70 pounds since two years ago, from 245 to 175 lbs, and I’m a 6’1” male.
Fifty of those pounds were lost by portion control, not exercise.
When I confessed to being a glutton, it helped me to realize how to lose weight.
Thin genes? At some point there is a level of exercise and reduced consumption that will cause weight loss in anyone.
She has a high stress job
We all have high-stress jobs. If she can't deal with the stress of being a simple country doctor without eating to compensate, how can she handle the stress of being Surgeon General of the United States?
...and probably little energy left to jog 5 miles a day.
Running five miles a day would give her more energy, not less.
That said, as I noted in a previous post, I don't think she should be penalized for her weight--she looks fairly average to me--just for her pro-abortion views.
It is a high-stress job. That said, the average physician has a BMI well below the national average. Go to their conventions and conferences and look at them. They're lean, almost all of them. As for "jogging 5 miles per day," most of them would advise against it and in favor of walking, swimming, bicyling and other low-impact aerobics.
I don't know Dr. Benjamin's medical history, so I can't judge whether gluttony or laziness would account for her portly appearance. It may be beyond her control.