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 just click the link, I don’t have to pay.
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.
Clean out your nytimes.com cookies and retry. Obviously a loyal fan (LOL), you've exceeded your monthly allocation of free articles. You need to reset that.
Works for me. The last time I paid the NY Times real money was for a dead-tree edition from a news vendor. And I can't remember when that was, suffice to say, not this millennium.
“but let me hazard a guess that their proposed ‘solution’ depends on massive nanny state intervention.”
The nanny-state intervention caused it; where was America’s obesity level before food stamps?