ah more on texas obesity.
luckily i have now moved to a healthier region... or will my texas roots haunt me forever?
Posted by joann at May 28, 2004 02:37 PMBaltimore is pretty unhealthy too
Posted by: Dennis Cheung at May 28, 2004 04:16 PMI'd like to point you to some Houston Chronicle URLs that go a little deeper than the CNN story:
http://www.chron.com/content/news/photos/04/05/28/a-phat.html
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2595979
I think the most interesting part is that only 5% of white/asian girls in the 11th grade are overweight. The article suggests this is because they are the most likely to have eating disorders. You just can't win, huh?
I didn't realize before the extent to which the obesity 'epidemic' differs by race. I have heard though that there is a strong corrolation between income level and obesity. Because there is (still) a corrolation between race and income in this country, I'd be interested to see racial data that factors out income disparities.
I've been frequenting the site www.bigfatblog.com lately, which is a fat-acceptance web page. I wasn't even aware of the fat-acceptance movement before the first time that I went. I'm not sure that I agree entirely with the movement (I must dissagree with their claim that weight and health are entirely independant), but I have noticed that our society tends to view the concepts of "fit" and "thin" as though they were one and the same. We need to remember that *health* is more important than *weight*
Posted by: justin at May 29, 2004 12:18 AM