Comments on: Push Away From the Table, Mabel – Joe Tex

By: blackink

blackink — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:47:56 +0000

Yeah, I think we have to stop lying to ourselves, and fighting all the available evidence about our dietary and exercise choices. We can say that the BMI isn’t a reliable index but, in the end, our health issues are the ultimate trump card.

We need more of this kind of real talk. Well said, fam.

And I was watching “All You Can Eat” the other day. It got me so sentimental that I put “Disorderlies” in my Netflix cue.

By: Vanessa G

Vanessa G — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:48:06 +0000

The problem is deep. I’ve lost my grandmother (66), aunt (54), aunt (62) – all to obesity related illness. Most every woman in my family is near to or way over obese. I actually started a non-profit (along with a friend of mine) to address this exact issue. You should check out our website (www.girltrek.org). I am taking a group of six previously non-active women to Chicago in September to compete in the Chicago Half Marathon. We have to start somewhere!

By: Booker Rising

Booker Rising — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:23:49 +0000

Push Away From The Table, Mabel – Joe Tex…

Avery Tooley, a black moderate-conservative blogger, discusses disturbing health trends for black American women: “One statistical projection says that by 2034, 100% of Black women will be overweight, as defined by the BMI. When it comes to people, i….

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:41:17 +0000

I think people are going to wise up and cut back as it sinks in that being srsly obese = early death. The doctors can run all the ads they want about heart disease and diabetes and such, but for most folks I don’t think it’s really going to sink in until one of their friends or family needs the supersized box at the crematorium.

Also, thanks for that Fat Boys video. Haven’t seen that in 20 years but it’s still just as funny.