Obesity Maps Put Racial Differences On Stark Display

[Bugatti Biceps]

boy you stupid as fck bringing walmart into this argument sit yo dumb ass down we talking about the hood aint no aldi in the hood you fckn fakkit

In Chicago there is clown ass nikka.

 

[At30wecashout]

In Chicago there is clown ass nikka.

Aldi EVERY fukking where now. Chicago wasn't immune to food desert issues for the longest, but Aldi popped up anywhere they could. You gotta be in a real fukked
place to not get fresh food within Chicago City limits.

 

[Mowgli]

Exactly!!! This same study should be linked to income levels.

They've already done the studies and related them to income levels. Middle class couples between the ages of 21 and 28 have the healthiest children

 

[Rawtid]

If you notice, a lot of our older black people of influence are vegan/vegetarian. I remember people giving dikk Gregory the side eye about his nutrition views. Now that shyt is hitting home.

 

[YouMadd?]

Is this based off of BMI or body fat. If it is based off of BMI than this is irrelevant..

 

[Scott Larock]

We brothers are usually pretty in shape, even us older cats, I rarely see fat black dudes and most brothers who are overweight can burn it off in 3 months if they get serious.

I see some big sisters though. but I can't hate.

 

[ROFL_GUY]

You can find fresh vegetables in any grocery store. You don't need to live on any special side of town for that. If people stopped buying all this over processed bullshyt you think they'd continue selling it. Healthy options are everywhere. Its up to you whether you choose to eat them or not.

chicken/potatoes/or rice + a vegetable is cheaper than ANY fast food combo

people are just lazy

its sad.

cant even feed yourself properly. this should be EVERYONES #1 PRIORITY

 

[ROFL_GUY]

97% of your health issues especialily mental health issues can be managed with nutrition



or believe CAC drug govt dealers

 

[the cac mamba]

I would go to walmart and slim people were the minorities . .

lets be honest, that isnt just an arkansas thing

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Obesity Maps Put Racial Differences On Stark Display

Take a look at the latest obesity data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and you can see that the country's obesity epidemic is far from over.

Even in Colorado, the state with the lowest rate, 21.3 percent of its population is obese. Arkansas tops the list with 35.9 percent.

"It is the largest epidemic of a chronic disease that we've ever seen in human history," says Dr. Donald Lloyd-Jones, chair of the department of preventive medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Click on the CDC's obesity prevalence maps and you'll see something even more startling — the disparity among different ethnic groups. It's not new that the obesity epidemic is hitting African-Americans the hardest, followed by Hispanics, but the maps highlight this worrying trend.

For African-Americans for example, there are 33 states with an obesity rate of at least 35 percent, whereas for white Americans only 1 state reports that rate. Nine states estimate the Hispanic obesity rate at 35 percent or higher.

"It is not about one group doing something wrong," says Lloyd-Jones, who was not involved in creating the CDC maps. "It is about the environment that we have built that sets people up to fail."

Race and ethnicity are often a surrogate for low socioeconomic status, he says.

"Our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools expose people, especially poor people, to less choices of healthy foods," Lloyd-Jones says. There are also fewer places outside to be safe and burn off calories.

This has huge implications for the health of individuals and for health costs in the future, because obesity causes significant downstream health problems like diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

The CDC created the maps using self-reported information from the 2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS.)

fukk black on black crime... police... institutional racism

heart attacks is what's gonna kill off black people in america

 

[Samori Toure]

I disagree, our ancestors didn't eat like shyt. That's a huge misconception especially about southern food. The industrial revolution was the one to fukk us over with eating habits. And with the invention and use of machinery hence processed food.

Bingo. People keep talking crazy about how Southern Black people used to eat and then when they look at pictures of Black people from 1900's-1980's they see that Southern Black people were not really that fat. Hell most of them were just average sized. Back in those days Black people actually cooked and ate real food and they worked it off on their farms. Black people back then had gardens and everything in the South. Literally all the people in my hometown in Tennessee had gardens and they used them to feed their families.

These fat fukks walking around here in this generation are the product of junk food. They have some lazy ass mothers who throw hamburgers down their kids throats and think that they have fed them real food. These fat fukks are a product of the last 30 years. And the damn women are getting bigger and bigger and of course none of them bother exercising.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

I can't find ONE fresh food health conscious store near the hood..... but I can walk to all of the businesses in the vicinity and get me a 6 pack of beer, some liqour, blunts of any flavor I can think of, some chips, debbie cakes, soda, and a fastfood combo meal .............
now If I want to find some healthy options I gotta plan a trip across town where all the cacs live

you can also get all the same health food at fukking walmart

keep acting like its the stores.... like you can only eat healthy at whole foods... i'm guessing theres no gym anywhere in the hood either right? i guess p90x don't drop in the hood huh?



bunch of fat ass excuses

 

[Clayton Endicott]

Aldis, Walmart, ultra, or whatever else local grocery store you fukkin clown.

You don't need to go to whole foods or trader joes and spend an absurd amount of money to eat and live healthy. Paying $3 for a hipster cac bell pepper that hasn't been scientifically proven by anyone to be any better than a 33 cent bell pepper makes no sense to anyone outside of hipsters and people with too much disposable income

shyts is beyond stupid and isn't relevant to the situation

I know folks like to use spots like Aldi as an excuse, but I live in that muthafukka and see fruits, vegetables, and healthy food there. Hell they even got they own line of healthy alternatives to damn near everything in the store called Fit and Active.

 

[godkiller]

Blacks have different threshold for muscle and obesity relative to other races so the map is erroneous as such. In other words, the map is based on white norms and blacks are built slghtly differently to cacs (same with Asians). While blacks are probably fatter than they should be, they aren't as fat as depicted. Mexicans are actually fatter.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

The number one reason why my siblings and I are not obese is because my parents never bought junk food. We never had chips, soda, crackers, cakes, snakcks in the house. Only junk we had was juice and the occasional chinese take out. My parents didnt consciously do this, we just didnt have alot of money so my mom preferred home cooked meals over buying junk she thought was expensive. We had good home cooked meals daily. I went to a friends house and they have 2 kids, yall should have seen the way their pantry was stocked with junk food. And one of the kids is like 8 and shes already fat.
And when i try to talk to fat people they have a million excuses. One mofo even told me fruits make him sick. Some people genuinely have a food addiction.

if only fat people would do actual gymnastics instead of just mental ones