>Black women are much more predisposed to obesity than black men.
All women have a higher proportion of fat than men because pregnancy is so energy intensive.
Ethnic differences in Obesity risk
Ethan Rogers
Christian Phillips
>there were no famines in Asia.
Aiden Cox
>Obesity due to genetics
>Obesity due to anything but self control and understanding of calories in vs calories out
William Ward
Did you actually read the OP?
Jackson Butler
>>Obesity due to anything but self control and understanding of calories in vs calories out
Most thin people don't exert any particular self-control or count calories, their appetite and metabolism adjust for them. After they go crazy on all-you-can-eat pizza one night, the next day they only feel like one slice of toast for breakfast, skip lunch, and only want a snack-sized supper.
Fat people, on the other hand, go crazy on all-you-can-eat pizza one night, then the next day they're hungry for a big breakfast, a big lunch, and they want to go back to have all-you-can-eat pizza again because it was good last night.
The effect of exercise to reduce the chance of obesity isn't even particularly the amount of calories burned. All sorts of things go wrong in the body when you don't get enough exercise, stop being regulated properly: appetite, digestion and elimination, mood, sleep, etc.
The regulatory processes in the body which affect behavior aren't something you can just set aside with willpower. Fat people trying to lose weight with calorie counting diets actually have physical changes in their brain, including the loss of myelin. They suffer anxiety, depression, inability to concentrate, and develop compulsive behavior and memory problems.
When you exert willpower to defeat some behavior-regulating mechanisms, your brain may change until you no longer have that willpower to exert.
How many things in your life that you didn't like about yourself, that you decided to change by force of will? How many did you succeed in changing? The conscious mind has reins to steer the body, but the body has its own reins to steer the conscious mind, and it's especially strong at steering you to eat.
Obesity is a complex phenomenon. Genetics, environment, overall lifestyle, attitude toward food, information about nutrition, habits formed in childhood, etc. all play a part.
Gabriel Johnson
sciencedaily.com
>Here we show that West-African genetic ancestry may afford protection against central adiposity in African American men, but not in African American women," says Yann Klimentidis, Assistant Professor at the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department of the University of Arizona, the study's lead author.
>Central adiposity ("belly fat"), the build-up of excess fat under the skin of the lower torso and around the internal organs, is a strong risk factor for obesity and diabetes, as well as for high blood pressure, high blood sugar, disease of the heart, liver, and pancreas, and some cancers.
Matthew Davis
Doesn't seem like they are according to this graph
Owen Jones
>Obesity due to genetics
Yes, user, weight has pretty high heritability estimates.
Jaxson Hernandez
Is it proven that's not just because those parents project their own appetites on their kids?
Ethan Barnes
But races are a social construction m8. Because they were kings and are superior to the white race. I hope my wife gets a black, Latino or Muslim bf to satisfy her wishes. And I hope drumpf gets impeached because I want lots of poor Muslims in the USA because it's our fault they're terrorists.