Brew Health: Negro Women, Indian Is Not The Only Thing That Runs in Your Family......

Apparently so does big bones. According to this study the Negro woman may not be that off when she claims to have "big bones" (though for the most part we usually have normal size bones and ginormous amounts of denial....) but at any rate the study says that the body fat measurements overestimate fatness in the colored gals. WHOOOOO HOOOOO!!!!! I always knewed (yes knewed...) that thing was lying!

Now hold on my fluffy lovelies..... this doesn't mean you need go run out and celebrate at 'Old Country Buffet' but at least we are now getting some useful and more reliable info. Big bones or not, let's keep eating well and sweating more, no matter what the experts say....


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The body mass index (BMI) and waistline measurement overestimate obesity in African-Americans, according to a new study. The results, which were presented at The Endocrine Society's 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., suggest that conventional methods for estimating body fat may need to become race-specific.



"Compared to Caucasians, African-Americans of the same age, gender, waist circumference, weight and height may have lower total and abdominal fat mass," said principal investigator and study leader Samuel Dagogo-Jack, MD, professor of medicine and chief, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis. "These findings argue for a review of the existing cutoffs for healthy BMI and waist circumference among African-Americans."