EURweb.com - GOVERNMENT OBESITY SURVEY DOUBTED: 78% of black women are overweight?!

*A federal government agency released the results of a study last week which says that given “the direction we are going” within the next 40 years all adult Americans will be overweight.

The study’s conclusion drew a lot of media attention with several experts expressing doubt that such a projection could actually occur.

However, drawing less attention was an assertion in the study that 78 percent of Black adult women in America are already overweight or obese. The study was compiled by the government’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

One of the lead researchers Dr. Lan Liang cautioned that while trends point to Americans becoming increasingly obese, “genetically and physiologically, it should be impossible” for all adults to become overweight.

The study was published in the current edition of the journal Obesity and it warns that those at greatest risk for becoming obese are Mexican Americans and African Americans. (source: Taylor Media Services)

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GOVERNMENT OBESITY SURVEY DOUBTED: 78% of black women are overweight?!