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Self Control Surrenders
Headline: Black women are shrinking. Actual article summary: poor and "middle income" black women are losing height, while higher income black women are catching up and will most likely pass their white counterparts some time in the next few decades.
Article conclusion: people are helpless, prostrate before the monstrous consumer culture we have accidentally created.
GTFOML* explanation: poor people now have the opportunity to eat themselves to death with cheap, tasty food. For some weird reason, probably cultural, poor black women are more susceptible to eating themselves to death than others. Certain scientists and their liberal handlers are trying to pin this on the rest of us. Especially the white rest of us.
My solution: there is no "solution" per-se. If a certain subset of people wish to eat themselves to death, that's their business. Of course, poor women are typically poor because they got knocked up before they got a driver's license. This makes the "if they want to, let 'em die" policy heartless instead of libertarian. Which is why I get to be a gadfly, instead of actually make policy.
More likely solution: Let the policy makers do what they want, as long as it doesn't cost any more of my tax dollars.
Hey, I can dream, can't I?
Komlos blames the long stagnation of American growth rates that began in the 1950s and the current obesity epidemic on the one-two punch of television and fast food.
"In my opinion, the pressure to consume is so high on the American population that is very difficult for anyone to withstand the urge," he said. "Education and income help, but the pressure is pretty overwhelming."
Then why isn't it hitting the rest of us? This is either another case of poor reporting or poor science. Poor white folk are pretty damn fat, too. See Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, the Carolinas, Kentucky, Tennessee, the Virginias, and so on.
Or am I expected to believe that poor white and Hispanic folks do nothing but eat healthy and are therefore less affected?
Posted by: ronaprhys on December 28, 2008 07:21 PM