University study claims racism makes black women fat

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Perceptions of racism -- from being treated with suspicion in a store to unfairness in employment or housing -- can heighten stress levels and affect health, research has shown. A new study from Boston University links these smoldering signs of racism to weight gain in black women, suggesting a possible explanation for the their higher obesity rates compared to white women.

Yvette Cozier, an epidemiologist at the Slone Epidemiology Center at BU, led a survey of more than 43,000 women enrolled in the long-running Black Women's Health Study. Writing in the June issue of Annals of Epidemiology, she and her co-authors describe participants' reports on their weight, body mass index, and perceptions of racism.

At the beginning of the eight-year study, the women were asked if they sometimes felt they were treated poorly in a restaurant or store, whether they thought people considered them dishonest or less intelligent, and if they had felt unfairness on the job, in housing, or from police. The women, 21 to 69 years old at the study's outset, were placed in four groups based on how frequently they said they experienced these signs of racism. Their weight was recorded every two years from 1997 through 2005. Their waist circumference was measured at the beginning and end.

At the end of the trial, all the women had gained weight. But the women who said they felt higher levels of racism gained more weight and had bigger waist-size increases compared to the women who felt the least racism. That held true after accounting for factors such as education, geographic region, and beginning body mass index.

"Racism is real and it has real effects," Cozier said in an interview. "It can result in real changes in the body."
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So apartheid will get the blame for everything. Well then i'm fat because the ANC is in Goverment.
 
ahahhahahahahahahahhahah oh Christ! This is hysterical! Racism makes you fat. Oh I can't WAIT to see what Oprah does with this.

Black people who think the world hates them, especially in a country like South Africa or America where a black guy is the president, are really funny. Sheesh, looks like the fat black female God in The Shack didn't make obese black women feel any better.
 
And anti-feminism is causing white women to gain weight :rolleyes:

Homophobia is causing gays to gain weight etc...

White males, we are a minority being blamed for everything in this PC world. :(
 
And here I thought eating too much made you fatty foods made you fat.
Idiots.
 
This from a country with the highest obesity figures and which consumes the most junk food in the world. ****ing retards.
 
What a stupid study.

Replace "racism" in the article with "stress from obesity" and see why obese people are more prone to gaining weight. Obese people are also problably more self-concious, and may have a more negative outlook on society.

The study should actually claim that "fat black women in the united states are more cynical".
 
Stress causes me to lose weight. Go figure. Maybe it is because my ulcer calls dibs on all the good stuff.
 
WTF's wrong with Halle Berry? Beyonce? Naomi Cambell? And the hordes of super HOT black women in the world? They all white inside?
 
More moronic liberal ramblings from a university. What a surprise :rolleyes:
 
"Racism is real and it has real effects," Cozier said in an interview. "It can result in real changes in the body."

You mean the perception of racism right?

"...led a survey of more than 43,000 women enrolled in the long-running Black Women's Health Study...participants' reports on their weight, body mass index, and perceptions of racism"

So what it comes down to is that people who think they are being treated as they are due to racism, gain more weight. In other words they gain weight because they think less of themselves in the first place? Low self esteem that leads to eg. eating because they feel sorry for themselves and in the end they get fat. That is how I interpret it at least. Sounds valid to me. Common sense really.
 
I wonder what led to her problem, to much 69 or racism in reverse?



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Starting my own doctor's practice where I do the opposite of a Michael Jackson operation. It's like falling in a tub of tar: you go in white, you come out black. Kaching...you're a diamond. Any volunteers?
 
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I think the title is incorrect. It's the 'perception of racism' which is making these women more obese according to this study and not racism in itself. Racism or whether the perceptions were warranted or not was not evaluated in this study. The title is incorrect and this is more incorrect, sensationalist, lay media reporting.

It may be that many black women in USA feel themselves victimised racially,
and that doesn't mean that it's necessary at the hands of white people - often enough people with victim self-image victimise each other.
 
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