| Depending on your racial or your ethnic | | | | works is your family history. If both your |
| background, you may find that it is much more | | | | parents are overweight, then there is a high |
| difficult to lose weight than other people of | | | | chance that you will also be overweight. Not |
| other races. So does that mean it is | | | | just the genes are responsible for this |
| impossible to lose any weight at all, or is | | | | though, you dietary and eating habits are |
| it going to frustrate you to the point of | | | | also to blame. When children grow up in such |
| giving up on weight loss altogether? | | | | an environment where the eating habits are |
| | | | not controlled and are lax, then they also |
| The latest data shows that while 49 percent | | | | learn that behavior, munching on snacks and |
| of white women are classified as overweight | | | | perpetually eating. |
| or obese, 66 percent of black women are | | | | |
| classified such, and 66 percent of Hispanic | | | | However, the link between diseases and being |
| women are overweight or obese. As for Asians, | | | | overweight isn't uniform across the various |
| the overweight rate is about 22 percent. How | | | | races. A study done on the association |
| is this possible? No one can say conclusively | | | | between body mass index (BMI) and the |
| for sure why there are such big differences | | | | mortality rates from heart diseases showed |
| between the various ethnic groups. | | | | quite different results between the white and |
| | | | black population. While an increase in BMI |
| Some of the reason could be eating habits, | | | | correlated positively to an increase in heart |
| exercise habits etc. Some research even | | | | disease mortality, the absolute numbers for |
| suggests that the metabolism rates for the | | | | BMI were not uniform. For example, for the |
| various races differ by a large margin. For | | | | same mortality risk, the BMI that caused that |
| example, some studies have shown that the | | | | risk was much higher for black women as |
| resting metabolism rate is lower among obese | | | | compared to white women. So BMI may not be |
| black women versus obese white women. When | | | | such a good indicator of health related |
| these women went through a six month weight | | | | diseases, especially for a black women, than |
| loss program, both groups lost weight, | | | | it is for a white woman. |
| however the metabolic rate of the African | | | | |
| American women dropped even further, making | | | | Although it may be more difficult to lose |
| it much harder for them to lose more weight. | | | | weight with all these factors seemingly |
| | | | against you, it is still possible, with a |
| This will probably explain why black women | | | | sensible diet program coupled with an |
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| especially compared to white women, even when | | | | from making the effort and sticking with the |
| they enroll in a weight loss program. This | | | | program forever. |
| could also explain why African American women | | | | |
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