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Figured I would take some time to talk about some Racial-Ethnic Disparities in obesity, and for as of right now (while the populations still show differentiation, it will be way different for all ethnic groups in 20 years with 9 out of 10 people being obese or overweight, and I would assume it would show the same levels of it in all populations), the ethnic-racial differences in the pattern as they apply to HBD.
To quote from the Food, Research and Action Clinic, which just did an overview of studies from the last year on the percentage, as well as racial-ethnic disparities on obesity:
Recent national data show that 82.0 percent of Black women and 77.2 percent of Hispanic women are overweight or obese compared to 63.2 percent of White women (Ogden et al., 2014).
Women as a whole are more likely to carry more fat mass than men, especially in their hips and around their waste, as estrogen distributes fat more around hips and the lower body, as it’s better for childbearing.
In addition, over half of Black women are obese (versus 37.1 percent of Black men and 32.8 percent of White women) (Ogden et al., 2014). Extreme obesity continues to be higher among women (8.3 percent) than men (4.4 percent), especially among Black women who have more than double the rates of extreme obesity as White and Hispanic women (16.4 percent versus 7.4 percent and 7.6 percent) (Ogden et al., 2014).
Black women have a higher rate of super obesity (over 40 percent BMI) due to EBT and other programs where they are able to buy high fat, high carb foods, which obviously leads to more weight gain. Double the fact that they are women and genetically predisposed to carry more fat than men, and you have your answer.
There is also a genetic component, which I will get in to later.
Rates of overweight or obesity are higher for Hispanic men (78.6 percent) compared to Black men (69.2 percent) and White men (71.4 percent) (Ogden et al., 2014).
Definite genetics at play here, with Hispanic men having a higher rate than black or Hispanic men. Studies show that Hispanics have fat-hoarding genes left over from their ancestors, genes that were required to live through cycles of feast and famine, which obviously have deleterious effects today. (Type 2 Diabetes goes hand in hand with obesity, which I will cover in a future post.)
This also goes to people who say that there are no genetic causalities for obesity, sure kcal in and kcal out are king, but it’s ignorant to think that there are no genetic causes for obesity.
There is a gene that is associated with waist circumference, as well as insulin resistance. Asian Americans have that, which also is a cause for obesity. Also, that same MCR4 sequence has been linked to binge eating.
Now to talk about some genes associated with obesity in African Americans.
In a study published back in 2013, researchers were looking for obesity genes in African Americans. The study, which involved more than 70,000 men and women of African descent, they were able to identify 3 SNPs that were associated with obesity and BMI in the sample population. What was also found, was that those same genetic sequences also heighten rates of obesity in peoples with no African ancestry, all of the genetic variants associated with obesity were also found in European populations. The same genes found in African populations did the same in European populations, and vice versa.
The map shown above shows obesity rates among black adults. Of course, where blacks are most prevalent, the southeast shows higher concentrations of obesity, of course, environmental factors are at play here (with ‘soul food’ being super high in fat and carbs, which make you hungry sooner).
This map shows the obesity rate of whites in America. Notice how most of the concentration of obese whites is in the southeast of America, which correlates with the lower IQ average of those states as seen in the map of IQ by State.
The above map shows obesity rates for Hispanics in America, again, matching up to where the majority of Hispanics in America are, furthering the causality of low IQ (see map).
Notice how there is no Asian obesity map? That’s because of their higher average IQ. Asian countries have some of the lowest prevalence of obesity and being overweight worldwide. Though, that is changing with a more ‘Americanized’ Asia, us bringing our shit lifestyle habits to other countries will increase the overall prevalence of obesity in the world, as well as America.
You can see the average IQ scores by State that it roughly matches up with all 3 maps. It’s not a coincidence. Lower IQ people don’t grasp what they are doing to their bodies by eating so much, leading to higher rates of obesity. I have already touched on how high fat diets slow microglia, which eats neuron connections in the brain, which is, yet again, another cause for lower IQ in obese/overweight people.
On top of some genetic reasons for obesity and predisposing populations to obesity, there are also environmental effects which cause differing levels in the populations. Socioeconomic status has a say as well (which is one of the only times this is applicable).
With differing levels of government assistance in groups, the more people who get government assistance are, for the most part, on the left side of the Bell Curve, which in turn means that they have a higher chance of being obese or overweight, due to low intellect. Low intelligence is correlated with abstract thought, so the low IQ person won’t be able to see what they are doing to their bodies in the now as well as into the future. That is the relationship between IQ and obesity.
Kanazawa also found, looking at a nationally representative sample of white Britons, (n=10,000), that IQ measured in childhood predicts obesity by age 51. (I will make a longer post on IQ and obesity in the future.)
Also, in a study that came out last month, when diets make us overweight/obese, it prompts normally active cells in our brain called ‘microglia’ to stop moving around so much and actually consume pathways to our neurons, which of course can sap intellect.
Percent of population on Food Stamps by Race:
White: 8.6%
Black: 43.8%
Hispanic: 17%
As you can see here, blacks have the highest rate of receiving food stamps in the country. The above quote is taken from the link.
It doesn’t follow the obesity trends of 67.3% for whites, 75.6% for blacks, and 77.9% for Hispanics, genetic factors take care of the rest for Hispanics to show their numbers in the obesity statistics. Obviously, we are being bombarded with tons of ads a day, telling us to eat all of this unhealthy food, and who is more likely to be home and not at work? Blacks and Hispanics. So that propaganda from the TV effects them more, to eat this or drink that, and they give in, due to their low IQ (which I have linked 2 Kanazawa studies to show reasons why).
In a meta-analysis of 140,525 people, they found the heritability of BMI was .75 to .82. So we can see that heritability of BMI is pretty large.
The causes for race/ethnic differences in obesity are partly genetic and partly environmental (socioeconomic), one would reason, in equal environments, that we would see Hispanics take the top spot, with blacks following behind and finally whites.
The greater your IQ, the lower your weight. Researchers found that people with a BMI of 20 or less were able to recall 56 percent of words in a vocabulary test while those with a BMI over 30 could only recall 44 percent. This directly goes hand in hand with my other link about microglia.
In this study, the cohort members who became obese had low IQ, as expected. Obese cohort members showed no excess decline in IQ, they instead had lower IQ since childhood. Further proving the low IQ/obesity correlation.
By 2020, 75 percent of Americans will be obese or overweight and by 2020, 80 percent of men are going to be overweight or obese. Now, the cause of these trends going up are due to more illegal/legal immigration from the south of the border. Though, without that, we would still be on our way to being a super obese country, because of the dysgenic effects in all populations, which cause a drop in IQ, which causes a gain in weight. Not to mention the propaganda that gets put to kids to want to eat sugary, unhealthy things.
NotPoliticallyCorrect 
lol blacks can’t comprehend this page.
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This is for anyone with the ability to understand it (though we know, on average, blacks lack the intellect to understand it). =^)
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It’s clear to see that you’re one of those people who use knowledge of HBD to justify your hatred against others.
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Why do you say that? Is the statment you’re responding to incorrect?
I’m into HBD because I want to learn more about how and why we are different. Hatred has nothing to do with it. My statement wasn’t incorrect. Blacks, on average, cannot understand the post.
I do hate certain behaviors, and certain races are more prone to have these behavioral tendencies and I want to know how and why these evolved and persisted.
My want to learn about human diversity is purely scientific.
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[…] refuted Andrew Anglin’s atrocious writing and arguments for the Paleo Diet here, and wrote on obesity and ethnicity including genetic and environmental causes. I also wrote on how nutrition is important prenatally as well as postnatally in developing […]
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[…] more evidence to bolster my claim is how 82 percent of black women are overweight or obese (Ogden et al, 2014). Genes related to obesity have also been found in African-Americans, as well as European-Americans, […]
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[…] to environmental factors, but there are correlates with obesity and genetic factors, as well as racial and ethnic differences in obesity, which are due, in part, to environmental as well as genetic factors. All of these factors fall […]
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[…] Blacks have lower levels of hemoglobin than whites. The Red Cross defers people with low levels of hemoglobin. I don’t really know about blacks traveling too much. Abnormal blood pressure could be low or high blood pressure. Your blood pressure is determined by the amount of blood your heart pumps and the amount of resistance in your arteries.The more blood your heart pumps while arteries are clogged, the higher your blood pressure will be. The more fat and cholesterol that build up on the inner walls of the arteries, which I covered the other day, is called atherosclerosis. Called “hypertension” by the medical community, blacks also have a higher rate of this disease as well. Blacks have more genes expressed for coronary artery calcium, which is a strong indicator of atherosclerosis burden. Cardiovascular disease, more specifically coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death for all Americans of all ages and ethnic groups. Blacks suffer the highest percentage of deaths due to CHD. And finally, inability to find a vein is due in large part to 75.6 percent of the black community being obese in America (69.2 percent for men and 82 percent for …. […]
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I think this blog is for comedic purposes. If you’re trying to advance HBD (actually racism) you’re doing a marvelously terrible job.
You do realize that there are blacks outside of the United States, right? Why not compare the obesity rates of black Africans against white Americans and white Europeans. The results will turn your idiotic theory on its head.
And you are suggesting that nearly 50% of black Americans are on foodstamps?LOL. You’re a comedian for sure.
Another hallmark of HBD retards is denigrating the intelligence of black people when they themselves are not exactly the sharpest tools in the shed. To be blunt, the overwhelming majority of HBDers and race realists are profoundly stupid, that includes you I’m afraid. I know of no black person dumb enough to make the silly, nonsensical arguments you make. A 3 year old should know better. I’m black. The idea that you’re smarter than I am is a laugh riot.
The really bad thing about the Internet is that any uneducated, low-intelligence simpleton can write nonsense and publish it.
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Black American men with more African ancestry are less likely to be obese.
Since they are in the same environment, this variation is considerably due to genetic factors.
I’m talking in America. You clearly don’t understand that genes respond to the environment. I’m talking about 1st world blacks. Though as industrialization starts in Africa and they get more access to food, the same will happen.
Look at the recent change in height. Heritability of height is 80 percent, the same as the heritability for BMI in 1st world nations. Clearly they go hand in hand with each other. As countries in SSA begin to develop into 1st world nations, they would experience a rise in the heritability of BMI as well.
The rest of your post is nonsense and doesn’t say a thing about what I wrote.
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I’m not even American, but I know that another sign of low IQ is the unnecessary anger and inability to accept the hard facts about yourself. Which the previous post illustrated greatly.
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This is obvious to the naked eye, the science just corroborates it. I see some people also don’t understand averages either.
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[…] The known differences in ethnic obesity rates generally mirror the intelligence of those populations. All populations are showing a sharp dysgenic decline, which coincides with a more obese population as well. Sociologists and the like may say that those who are poor cannot afford the same types of food that those who have more wealth can. However, this is a false statement. Whole foods are not more expensive. The conclusion that was (obviously) reached is that there is expensive and non-expensive junk food as well as whole foods. Natural diets will not cost more, all things being equal. If you know how to eat and how to buy food, you will avoid spending too much money. This goes back to intelligence. One with a higher IQ will be able to think of what his present actions will lead to in the future while those with a lower IQ live in the now without a care for the future, which then manifests itself in their obesity. […]
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Government policy is a major factor in producing obesity. Included on the EBT-approved food list are: Twinkies, Oreos, cupcakes, candy, etc. In my local schools the kids are constantly gorging on various “snack chip” things most popular are Hot Cheetos and the Mexican-produced knockoff Takis. This is a high-Hispanic area with explosive rates of obesity and diabetes, with near-endemic rates especially in the female population. In the average elementary class room you will see children who are in actual physical distress and at the middle and high schools are students, primarily female, who are at the farthest ranges of morbid obesity. We are subsidizing this madness.
Last year the local newspaper carried a feature with various supposed “authorities” including University professors, high-$ executives from health care corporations, and government “experts” all howling in unison (as if off a script) about how “the minorities are being targeted” and they are in a “food desert”.
I routinely shop at a local mini-mart owned by Hispanics that successfully serves all of the community. They have a Spanish-speaking butcher and cram a full range of food products in a small space, including a decent produce section with fresh fruits and vegetables at prices competitive with the bigger supermarkets. Yet it is the norm to see parents with kids ignore the produce and buy soda pop and chips by the cartload, most paying with EBT. Many are fat, both parents and kids.
We just had 8 years with professional know-it-alls in charge, their “policy” was to monkey around with the school lunch program contents and ADD fast food items to the EBT-approved list.
Paradoxes abound. You can view the video “Fed Up” and see professors rail against soda pop sweetened with High Fructose Corn Syrup (which is a real issue due to the way it is metabolized, see “Fat Chance” by Dr. Robert Lustig) yet they completely ignore the role of these over-refined snack chip things. Read the bag, it’s all junk carbs (spike the blood sugar nearly as fast as straight sugar) congealed with the worst “fake fat” and barely even any protein that you need to keep your brain alert.
Now there is recently published research that shows eating french fries (and the bagged chips are essentially french fries in a dry form) and drinking diet soda has a corrosive effect on your immunity and the brain itself.
We are developing a mass of fat, sick, and stupid people who are wrecking the health care system. At our local hospital nearly half the admissions are due to complications from diabetes.
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Love the new layout man. Lol.
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