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