Posted on 05/07/2012 8:33:44 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
FOUR out of five black women are seriously overweight. One out of four middle-aged black women has diabetes. With $174 billion a year spent on diabetes-related illness in America and obesity quickly overtaking smoking as a cause of cancer deaths, it is past time to try something new.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
But I never would have suspected that for some people today, not hundreds of years ago, it is a deliberate cultural choice.
Well, I can’t read the article as it’s behind a paywall - but let me hazard a guess that their proposed ‘solution’ depends on massive nanny state intervention.
I still don’t like the implied threat of force coming from the government, but perhaps Michelle Obama may be partly on the right track after all, if she is intending to be a good example for black women getting healthier.
Don’t get me started...
There is no obesity epidemic. The media/left would like you to believe we have a crisis on our hands so they can tax you more. The reality is we are living longer than ever.
Black Women and Fat
I think they prefer the term "big boned".
I just click the link, I don’t have to pay.
It’s easy living I think.
If you click onto their site too many times they want you to pay and block you from reading for free.
(I think a good cookie cleaning may work though)
Seriously?
It’ the same reason many whites in the south are overweight.
Chicken and dumplings with Mac and Cheese.
Did I mention biscuits and country gravy?
No, completely the opposite. She is not claiming victimhood at all, because it was her choice to begin with. This is a cultural thing, and she is encouraging black women to change the culture:
WE have to change. Black women especially. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, blacks have 51 percent higher obesity rates than whites do. We’ve got to do better. I’ve weighed more than 200 pounds. Now I weigh less. It will always be a battle.
My goal is to be the last fat black woman in my family. For me that has meant swirling exercise into my family culture, of my own free will and volition. I have my own personal program: walk eight miles a week, sleep eight hours a night and drink eight glasses of water a day.
I call on every black woman for whom it is appropriate to commit to getting under 200 pounds or to losing the 10 percent of our body weight that often results in a 50 percent reduction in diabetes risk. Sleeping better may be key, as recent research suggests that lack of sleep is a little-acknowledged culprit in obesity. But it is not just sleep, exercise and healthy foods we need to solve this problem — we also need wisdom.
I expect obesity will be like alcoholism. People who know the problem intimately find their way out, then lead a few others. The few become millions.
In the hood, the preferred term is "thick."
You don’t get much exercise riding in “carts” at Walmart, or parking in handicapped spaces at the front door.
Handicapped spaces don’t mean “mentally handicapped”——
THERE! I SAID it.
Sounds like the MOther’s Day Brunch buffet I’m looking forward to enjoying.
True, I stand corrected.
Is Fat Alice, Fat Albert’s sister?
Wierd how MSN has pictures of two caucasians as their obese examples.
This thread is just dandy w/o pictures.
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