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Name: barnone

Comment: i think there coulb be some discrepency with the figure 78% considering the difference n aa culture and yt culture as it relates 2 size, however i will write this....when i was visited the states last summer i was in shock at the size of all of my girlfriends from childhood and all of my aunts and cousins. the only persons i can remember who wasn't overweight are my sister and one of my aunts.

Name: bigfriend

Comment: If you lived in Atl you would believe it. Most people have a little extra on them (or more than extra)

Name: Gurlfrand

Comment: That percentage may be a little high, but, it is true - there are a LOT of overweight blac women, especially here in L.A., where we don't wear big coats in December and you can always see what everybody looks like all the time - sorry, but it's the diet, the food we are consuming - we have got to change the types of foods that we eat...it may be where you go out to eat....

Name: Rahwaykid1

Comment: I was just at an event and I would say that way over half the black women there were obese or overweight. It wasn't funny either, just tragic.

Name: dcdouglass01

Comment: 78% overweight OR obese. I'd be interested in how the percentages breakout in those two catagories. At any rate, we do indeed need to change our eating habits: smaller portions (we ain't got to stop eating soul food, just less of it); less fat and carbs; 6-8 glasses of water everyday; go for a walk or get on a stationary bike for 20 minutes 3-4 times a week. We'll look better, feel better, and live longer.

Name: naturalsista

Comment: co-sign with gurlfrand. there are too many overweight sisters out there and it is extremely sad to see young sisters in their teens who are bordering on obese. we must do better with our eating and exercising.

Name: Gurlfrand

Comment: >naturalsista - it is so sad to see all of these young girls who have not even reached the age of 21 yet in obesity! I don't live in South L.A. but my church is there and when I drive over there and see all of these young faced girls who I can see are in there teens or late teens early 20's and they are already wearing a size 16 to 18 dress, something is dreadfully wrong and not everybody got a "glandular" problem - the traditions of how we have been fed food has been passed down though many generations of our families, and the traditions may not have been correct in it's point. Like another poster said, instead of cutting out soul food, maybe eat less of it - smaller portions.

Name: MissE

Comment: Personally i think the problem is too much fast food along, processed food, and yall know they pump up those chickens with steroids to make them big and fat. if you've ever noticed, people who live on farms and grow their own vegetables and raise their own cows and chickens live to be much older than those who eat packaged meet, canned and frozen vegetables, etc.

Name: Quanli

Comment: Sometimes I don't think it's the Soul Food as much as the fast food. Nobody is cooking like they used to. They are, however, supplementing the cooked food with whatever they can pick up off the Dollar Menu. Top that off with lack of exercise, vitamins and you have some generally unhealthy people. It's like the saying goes, the nation catches a cold--we catch the flu!

Name: PearlJr

Comment: I guess overweight means one pound or more. I bet it is based on a White standard. Black bones weight more! I do realize that too many of us are overweight but to say 78 percent is just mean. Overweight is also based on the stress factor and Black women are extremely stressed. But we can do better and we shall, just watch! Please visit my website: BlackWomenNeedLoveToo.com

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