When I lived in Atlanta, after living in LA for 14 years I could not believe how fat some of the black people there were. I’m not talking obese I’m talking WHOA-BEASE. I saw young black girls 21 years of age at 450 pounds or more in the grocery stores in those wheelchair carts with cake, cookies, chicken wings and lard in the cart. It’s as if the people there were going to keep eating to the point of explosion. The obese problem in the black community is OUTRAGEOUS and it’s a GREAT opportunity for Black radio to step in and get their sales departments to create campaigns with local sponsors. With all due respect to Tom Joyner and Dr. Ian Smith, they are not poster children for men in great shape. They are not convincing. You need someone who has gone from wooly mammoth to model physique for the cover of Men’s Fitness or Women’s Fitness.
Blacks were 51 percent more likely and Hispanics were 21 percent more likely to be obese than whites, a disparity that may be linked to cultural attitudes, income and education levels, a U.S. government study found. Thirty percent or more of blacks in 40 states met stand ards for obesity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s study publisource]
