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I am a doctor, and although I like the vast majority of my patients, I see this mentality all day long in the Africa-American women I take care of. I try to be kind to them, and so I don't really confront them very often about what I know are diets full of absolute crap. Which is doing them a disservice. To all the whiners and babies who are going to write in and acuse Ms. Dickerson of racism (I stopped reading after the first letter), you need to grow up and live in reality. Black women are eating themselves into obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and death (of course, a few people of any gender/race are, but only in black women is it driven by cultural standards). It is their right to do that if they really want, but let's not shroud this in feel-good euphamisms and denial.
