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Thursday, June 7, 2007 12:00 AM

Healthy, my ass

Many blacks love big women, but having a rump the size of Buffie the Body's can put women at risk for disease.
By Debra Dickerson

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  • Friday, June 8, 2007 10:39 PM

    not my interpretation

    No one's reinterpreting anything: that is the conclusion the CDC came to as well. Obesity is a serious health problem. OBESITY. Being moderately overweight is not a health problem.

    Being underweight is also a serious health problem - in fact, it's more dangerous than being obese.

    Those are their conclusions, drawn from their data.

    The only contradiction here is between what you would like to be true about what a woman of healthy weight looks like and what the CDC has found to be true.

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