S/O, why is the black woman figure big?

[Anonymous]

BMI chart is a good place to help figure out if you are overweight for your size.

[Anonymous]

Seems to me, the etiology of obesity needs a 12 step program.

[Anonymous]

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5827a2.htm

OP read the article. Perhaps you can find your answer here. Personally, I agree with all those who mentioned that you are either a liar when you state that you are Black or you are full of self-hatred by posting your statement on a Blog that is filled with racist rantings against a group of people you profess to belong.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. The reason for my post is that I am curious why black women who are heavy think that is just the way it is. Sort of like "if I am black, I should be heavy".

I am black and quite thin, but I have heard my whole life that I am shaped like a white woman. How ridiculous is that?
I am thin because I eat little food (health conscious and picky). I have very little genetic contribution from Europe or Asia, so most (>85%) of my genes are African, and I am thin.

You sound a bit snobby OP. You are thin because you eat little food? Great, now go barf after you eat. Men probably say you are shaped like a white woman because you have no ass. I really doubt black people are born with the goal of being heavy, just because they are black. Weight has nothing to do with race my dear. Some people (of any race) are fat and just freaking proud of it.

And yes, I am "quite thin" myself, and I am black. Maybe we are cousins....

I am not snobby about anything. I am very health conscious, and I don't care what looks good, it is about diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. WHAT is wrong with that.
The people that talked about a white figure were ALL black and I started hearing that in my 20s. BTW, I still think that talking to someone about their figure is rude. Any man that is that into looks would scare me away.

WHAT is so snobby???

OP, if you are health conscious, then you should gain some weight. Studies have proven that people who are slightly overweight live longer than skinny people and fat people. Look it up. I'm very sorry to tell you that you are not as healthy as you think. Please gain some weight if you only care about health and not about what looks good.

Reference?

This should be enough evidence for you but there is a lot more:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4468001.stm

http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20090625/study-overweight-people-live-longer

http://everythingyouknow-iswrong.blogspot.com/2010/11/overweight-live-longer.html

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. The reason for my post is that I am curious why black women who are heavy think that is just the way it is. Sort of like "if I am black, I should be heavy".

I am black and quite thin, but I have heard my whole life that I am shaped like a white woman. How ridiculous is that?
I am thin because I eat little food (health conscious and picky). I have very little genetic contribution from Europe or Asia, so most (>85%) of my genes are African, and I am thin.

You sound a bit snobby OP. You are thin because you eat little food? Great, now go barf after you eat. Men probably say you are shaped like a white woman because you have no ass. I really doubt black people are born with the goal of being heavy, just because they are black. Weight has nothing to do with race my dear. Some people (of any race) are fat and just freaking proud of it.

And yes, I am "quite thin" myself, and I am black. Maybe we are cousins....

I am not snobby about anything. I am very health conscious, and I don't care what looks good, it is about diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. WHAT is wrong with that.
The people that talked about a white figure were ALL black and I started hearing that in my 20s. BTW, I still think that talking to someone about their figure is rude. Any man that is that into looks would scare me away.

WHAT is so snobby???

OP, if you are health conscious, then you should gain some weight. Studies have proven that people who are slightly overweight live longer than skinny people and fat people. Look it up. I'm very sorry to tell you that you are not as healthy as you think. Please gain some weight if you only care about health and not about what looks good.

Reference?

This should be enough evidence for you but there is a lot more:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4468001.stm

http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20090625/study-overweight-people-live-longer

http://everythingyouknow-iswrong.blogspot.com/2010/11/overweight-live-longer.html

You need to read the articles more carefully. They said that slightly heavier people are living longer because of better health care. Also, people categorized as underweight included people at the of their lives suffering from cancer and AIDS to name a few. Massive weight loss is likely with chronic terminal disease. Ill people have historically skewed the curve, but the life insurance companies are well aware of this and have been for 40 years. Healthy thin people outlive healthy obese people.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a black woman who believes that we are disproportionately overweight because we have greater stress because we are more likely to be working and raising our kids on our own. You can buy a bag of dry beans that will feed four for several days and rice for less than three dollars at any grocery store. But what single mother has the time and energy to make cheap healthy meals?

It takes time to eat. My grandmother raised 8 kids alone, and she was not obese because food was expensive. She also sewed all of their clothes, had no dishwasher, no TV, no refrigerator (until 1955), and no washing machine.
The excuses are scary. It means that things will never change.

Yes, but back then we didn't have ridiculously over processed convenience foods. It's a good example of what one can do, but it's also a little disingenuous because the choices that she faced were very different than that of the single mother of today.

OK, then you are talking about choices. That is correct, it IS about choices.

Yes it is. And I'd like it if we could stop pretending that everyone has the same choices or that they even have access to good choices.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. The reason for my post is that I am curious why black women who are heavy think that is just the way it is. Sort of like "if I am black, I should be heavy".

I am black and quite thin, but I have heard my whole life that I am shaped like a white woman. How ridiculous is that?
I am thin because I eat little food (health conscious and picky). I have very little genetic contribution from Europe or Asia, so most (>85%) of my genes are African, and I am thin.

You sound a bit snobby OP. You are thin because you eat little food? Great, now go barf after you eat. Men probably say you are shaped like a white woman because you have no ass. I really doubt black people are born with the goal of being heavy, just because they are black. Weight has nothing to do with race my dear. Some people (of any race) are fat and just freaking proud of it.

And yes, I am "quite thin" myself, and I am black. Maybe we are cousins....

I am not snobby about anything. I am very health conscious, and I don't care what looks good, it is about diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. WHAT is wrong with that.
The people that talked about a white figure were ALL black and I started hearing that in my 20s. BTW, I still think that talking to someone about their figure is rude. Any man that is that into looks would scare me away.

WHAT is so snobby???

OP, if you are health conscious, then you should gain some weight. Studies have proven that people who are slightly overweight live longer than skinny people and fat people. Look it up. I'm very sorry to tell you that you are not as healthy as you think. Please gain some weight if you only care about health and not about what looks good.

Reference?

This should be enough evidence for you but there is a lot more:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4468001.stm

http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20090625/study-overweight-people-live-longer

http://everythingyouknow-iswrong.blogspot.com/2010/11/overweight-live-longer.html

You need to read the articles more carefully. They said that slightly heavier people are living longer because of better health care. Also, people categorized as underweight included people at the of their lives suffering from cancer and AIDS to name a few. Massive weight loss is likely with chronic terminal disease. Ill people have historically skewed the curve, but the life insurance companies are well aware of this and have been for 40 years. Healthy thin people outlive healthy obese people.

That's just wrong. I said "slightly overweight people live longer" and that is exactly what the articles say. They theorize that this could be because of better health care but they do NOT and CANNOT state this as fact. They can only point to the correlation and take a guess as to why these people are living longer. Many, many studies have proven that slightly overweight people live longer and many purposely excluded people with chronic illness. You are the one who needs to read more carefully. And BTW, I am not at all overweight because I think I look better that way but it's just false to say that you will be healthier because you are thin. No one is saying that it is healthy to be obese- only that it is healthier to be a few pounds overweight.

[Anonymous]

http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v30/n5/abs/0803193a.html


The other factor that was included in the other studies is smoking, smokers tend to be thin and they die sooner. This article removed smokers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v30/n5/abs/0803193a.html


The other factor that was included in the other studies is smoking, smokers tend to be thin and they die sooner. This article removed smokers.

One relatively small study on non-smokers cannot account for the difference in lifespan in all of the other American, Australian, British, and Finnish studies. Nice try but you are not healthier just because you are thin.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v30/n5/abs/0803193a.html


The other factor that was included in the other studies is smoking, smokers tend to be thin and they die sooner. This article removed smokers.

One relatively small study on non-smokers cannot account for the difference in lifespan in all of the other American, Australian, British, and Finnish studies. Nice try but you are not healthier just because you are thin.

Also, that was a study of radiation technologists who have other health risks to be concerned about. Not very useful.

[Anonymous]

To the PP who was questioning the assertion that 80% of black women are obese...

You are misreading what I wrote. I said, and I included a link to a gov. website on minority health that shows that nearly 80% (i.e. I think it was 78%) of black women in 2008 were obese OR overweight. Go back to page 2 of this thread and see.

Here's the link again:
http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/templates/content.aspx?ID=6456

The OBESITY ONLY rate for black women is 51% (which is terrible when you think there are actually more Obese black women than just overweight black women. Not a good trend.) White women aren't exactly the picture of health either.

The BIG BOTTOM line is this: AMERICA --- YOU ARE FAT and getting fatter.

[Anonymous]

We can't forget about what the genes say.

It's not racism.... But some races have more tendency to get certain diseases (taking only DNA into account) and people of darker races gain weight more easily they also have more chance to have high blood pressure.

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Anonymous wrote:http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v30/n5/abs/0803193a.html


The other factor that was included in the other studies is smoking, smokers tend to be thin and they die sooner. This article removed smokers.

One relatively small study on non-smokers cannot account for the difference in lifespan in all of the other American, Australian, British, and Finnish studies. Nice try but you are not healthier just because you are thin.

The other studies did NOT remove smokers, big bias.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We can't forget about what the genes say.

It's not racism.... But some races have more tendency to get certain diseases (taking only DNA into account) and people of darker races gain weight more easily they also have more chance to have high blood pressure.

This is incredibly inaccurate. If you are talking about a condition like diabetes is more prevalent among certain ethnic groups not jsut black people but Asians (south Asians to be more specific), Latinos and Native Americans. A tendency to gain weight is not genetic condition - it's an American condition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v30/n5/abs/0803193a.html


The other factor that was included in the other studies is smoking, smokers tend to be thin and they die sooner. This article removed smokers.

One relatively small study on non-smokers cannot account for the difference in lifespan in all of the other American, Australian, British, and Finnish studies. Nice try but you are not healthier just because you are thin.

The other studies did NOT remove smokers, big bias.

Okay, so you actually believe that smoking can account for the entire difference in lifespan? That's just ridiculous. Not all thin people smoke. I don't- do you? Does anyone else who is thin and who posted on this thread? Smoking among thin people might be slightly more common than among heavy people but people of all shapes and sizes smoke. You're grasping at straws here and so is the anti-obesity website you posted that cited the study.