Supersize The Racism: Blacks Are The Fattest Race
I guess McDonald’s new “urban” advertising campaign worked.
ATLANTA - Nearly 36 percent of black Americans are obese—much more than other major racial or ethnic groups—and that gap exists in most states, a new federal study finds.
About 29 percent of Hispanics and 24 percent of whites are obese, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. Overall, about 26 percent of U.S. adults are obese.
Racial differences in obesity rates have been reported before, and health officials were not surprised to see larger proportions of blacks tipping the scales.
But the new CDC report is the first to look at the gap state-by-state, finding blacks had significantly higher obesity rates in 21 states and somewhat higher rates in many others.
Experts believe there are several reasons for the differences. People with lower incomes often have less access to medical care, exercise facilities and more expensive, healthier food. In many places, minorities are disproportionately poor.
“Poverty is a very strong driver of obesity,” said Kelly Brownell, director of Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity.
Attitudes about weight also are believed to be a factor, said Dr. Liping Pan, a CDC epidemiologist. Researchers cited a 2008 study that found black and Hispanic women had significantly lower odds of being dissatisfied with their body size than white women.
“Black and Hispanics are more accepting of high weight,” Pan said, adding that heavy people who are satisfied with their size are not likely to diet or exercise.
However, it could be that over time as people struggle with poverty and environment “they come to accept the higher weights,” Brownell said.
Obesity is based on the body mass index, a calculation using height and weight. A 5-foot-7-inch adult who weighs 190 pounds would have a BMI of 30, which is considered the threshold for obesity.
The data comes from a national telephone survey of more than 1 million Americans over the years 2006 through 2008.
For blacks, the highest obesity rate was in Maine, where 45 percent were obese. Tennessee was the state where Hispanic obesity was most common. And West Virginia was the fattest state for whites.
But generally, obesity was most common for both blacks and whites in the South and Midwest.
The study also broke down the groups by gender, and found black women were the heaviest, with 39 percent counted as obese. Black men were next, at 32 percent, then Hispanic women, 29 percent, Hispanic men, 28 percent, white men, 25 percent and white women, 22 percent.
The study is being published this week in a CDC publication, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
(AP)
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Yo mamma’s so fat…(ad nauseum)
literally…
funny not in Africa
I don’t get it?
So that explains why our Halfrican-American Precedent wants arugula and Grey Poupon on his double quarter pounder?
What?
Just askin…
It’s a sad fact but one best not capitalized on.
Why? Because it’s their world now?
here come the lawsuits stating that blacks have been targeted by fast unhealthy food and are to stupid to make the correct food choices. beans, rice, fruits and veges and non-fat milk at the grocery store are cheaper than the double quarter pounder with cheese, no what I’m sayin dawg?
Fo’ reals, G!
I know why too.
I use to go to a lot of black friends homes.
Their moms would sit in a chair and watch tv. If they wanted or needed anything they would order someone to get it or do it. Never got out of the chair except for bathroom break.
What was funny is, I was told they were so fat they couldnt get in the shower/tub, so they would stand outside it and stick a leg or arm one at a time in the water stream.
Yo mama’s so fat, she got a flesh eating disease and the doctor gave her 60 years to live….
In the 19th century being obese was a sign of wealth, funny how too much food is now a problem of the poor…just shows you that being poor in the wealthiest nation ever seen is not what it is in the rest of the world…
Nearly 36 percent of black Americans are obese—much more than other major racial or ethnic groups—and that gap exists in most states, a new federal study finds.
About 29 percent of Hispanics and 24 percent of whites are obese, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. Overall, about 26 percent of U.S. adults are obese.
man there they go blowing the curve for the rest of us.
But seriously that is a big bitch.
Her thigh could feed a small village in ovomits homeland
lol
and it will if we can get her there
This thought sounds paranoid, even to me, but … Suppose it is institutionalize through their community as a way/means of adding stress and strain to the financially burdened health care system. Under the concept put forth in Unrestricted Warfare this sort of makes sense. Perhaps it is also time for another 36 ounces of coffee …
Yo mama’s so fat, when she wears her “little black dress” she looks like outer space.
Yo’ mama’s so fat, she got more chins than a Chinese phone book!
Oooo racist!