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2019-10-16 Home Front: Culture Wars

Rutgers Prof ties black female obesity to Trump policies, racism

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-16 06:10|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Magical how it just suddenly appeared starting in November 2016.

Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma. - Wizard of Oz

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-10-16 07:56|| 2019-10-16 07:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Rutgers University—New Brunswick's ranking in the 2020 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, #62. (Another overfunded JC.)

Posted by Chereting Pelosi1889 2019-10-16 08:30|| 2019-10-16 08:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Just because you have tourettes of the elbow doesn't mean it is whitie's fault.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-10-16 09:18|| 2019-10-16 09:18|| Front Page Top

#4 This professor is the master of non-sequitur relationships. Brittany does seem to know something about black female obesity and unconnected relationships.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-10-16 09:37|| 2019-10-16 09:37|| Front Page Top

#5 She probably does have a valid element underneath her argument. Not the Trump element or even current racism, but biological selection in the past few hundred years, where black women who were metabolically-efficient survived longer and generated more and stronger babies than those who 'wasted' scarce calories.

Posted by Glenmore 2019-10-16 10:01|| 2019-10-16 10:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Stacy "Tank" Abrams body ~~double~~ triple

Posted by Frank G 2019-10-16 10:07|| 2019-10-16 10:07|| Front Page Top

#7 How... professorial.

Maybe black women have just too much to eat for the amount of work they do, since Obama ?

Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-16 11:01|| 2019-10-16 11:01|| Front Page Top

#8 If only they had an activity, like picking cotton, that burns off all those empty calories.

Posted by Victor Emmanuel Flusoling2728 2019-10-16 11:08|| 2019-10-16 11:08|| Front Page Top

#9 where black women who were metabolically-efficient survived longer and generated more and stronger babies than those who 'wasted' scarce calories.

It's not genetic in Africans. In many African societies, a fat woman is a sign of beauty and a high status item. Young women nearing marriage age, who are almost always skinny, are force fed until fat w/ huge butt. It shows they have the wealth to raise a family.

Some SW American Indian tribes (Hopi and related if I remember correctly) do have genetic adaptions to famine and during times of plenty are predisposed to put on fat.

Posted by Victor Emmanuel Flusoling2728 2019-10-16 11:16|| 2019-10-16 11:16|| Front Page Top

#10 I can remember when fat was synonymous with "rich," affluent, comfortable, not worried about hunger or deprivation

Posted by Lex 2019-10-16 12:07|| 2019-10-16 12:07|| Front Page Top

#11 Didn't hear anything about diet. Lower income means you tend to eat cheaper foods with more starches and high calorie counts.

Posted by Mercutio 2019-10-16 12:22|| 2019-10-16 12:22|| Front Page Top

#12 I was raised in the Deep South in the 1970's with almost as many black woman around me as white women - and almost none of them from either group skinny. (There were of course exceptions.) Their diets were pretty similar: lots of deep friend food, sugar on anything you could ladle it onto or into, barbecue, and picnics, socials, and parties every week, especially after church. (I was raised Baptist.)

Good times. Good eating. GREAT eating, in fact! It's amazing I'm a skinny dude, even now. But, yeah, Southerners of any variety tend to be fat. It's the food combined with the lifestyle... which I don't remember being all that stressful for most people (and racially my environment was basically 60w/40b), even with the serious, overt, and even dangerous racism of the time.

Now, admittedly, I'm a white guy, and was a child in the 70's. So there were definitely bad things I didn't see, so maybe it was a lot more stressful for black people than I remember. (Again: I was a child.) But I wouldn't characterize things as generally stressful for most people based on what I recall. Just a lot of good eating and hanging out with friends and family.

Posted by Secret Master 2019-10-16 13:19|| 2019-10-16 13:19|| Front Page Top

#13 Have another donut, you fat pig!

Posted by Raj 2019-10-16 13:41|| 2019-10-16 13:41|| Front Page Top

#14 There's too much food! Impeach!

Posted by Croque Spoluling6656 2019-10-16 14:18|| 2019-10-16 14:18|| Front Page Top

#15 physiological stress responses to racial stimuli

Science is ruined.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-16 14:34|| 2019-10-16 14:34|| Front Page Top

#16 Gee, I wish some professor would tell me why I'm overweight. Fifty years ago, I was skinny (6'-0", 145 pounds skinny).

Lessee, two pounds a year, so for Carter, Clinton, and Obama - that's almost half of my fat, right there!

Posted by Bobby 2019-10-16 16:39|| 2019-10-16 16:39|| Front Page Top

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