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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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  • Wednesday, June 6, 2007 08:55 PM

    The fat - no, I mean the poor - no, I mean the fat, are always with us

    I agree with Spankerton. These people in the pictures are NOT FAT. They just don't look conspicuously skinny.

    The obesity epidemic is fuelled (ha ha) by completely unregulated food and food advertising industries, a lack of safe outdoor places and activities for young people, and the rising costs of healthy food (including scarce time for preparation). Picking on individuals won't help anyone. It never has, and it never will. So why is everyone doing it? Because bullying for a lot of people is fun I guess. But for me I judge the bully, and I don't forget it, either. Not to mention which, 'fat' just starts being another word for 'poor'. It's no accident that the fattest and unhealthiest of us are the least privileged. So lay off picking on individual fat people and start picking on the glaring societal problems that are contributing to adn creating this epidemic in the first place.

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