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Female Obesity Encouraged in Black Society?
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Tell Me More, Obesity in America is a problem across the racial spectrum. But columnist Debra Dickerson suggests that African-American women are more inclined to be overweight because African-American men prefer them to be so. Dickerson defends her argument and is joined by a blogger who disagrees in this week's Behind Closed Door
For women, the black (non-Hispanic) population has the highest prevalence of overweight (78 percent) and obesity (50.8 percent). Give this a few years, and yuh soon start seeing black women so coming to very rates of diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure & cancer.
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Listen Now add to playlist
Tell Me More, Obesity in America is a problem across the racial spectrum. But columnist Debra Dickerson suggests that African-American women are more inclined to be overweight because African-American men prefer them to be so. Dickerson defends her argument and is joined by a blogger who disagrees in this week's Behind Closed Door
For women, the black (non-Hispanic) population has the highest prevalence of overweight (78 percent) and obesity (50.8 percent). Give this a few years, and yuh soon start seeing black women so coming to very rates of diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure & cancer.
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