Thread by @BryanDeanWright

From the study:

Societies must not “shift blame for obesity to the individual.”

If that’s your starting point — if we mustn’t examine how individual choice has a bearing on individual health — then there’s no dialogue to be had.

The study becomes but a propaganda tool.

https://twitter.com/DrIbram/status/1388971734183858177

Curiously, the study ignores other communities that don’t struggle with obesity.

Asian American obesity rates are around 17%, for example.

Certainly they are a people of color that experience racism & are largely urban.

Odd that the authors mostly ignored that community.

Also ignored: Rural America has horrendous obesity rates across racial lines.

The reasons are complex, but data match my own rural experience: we eat too much, and unhealthy things.

We also stopped working our land. It’s a largely mechanized process now.
cdc.gov/media/releases…

Bottom line: We utterly disagree on the role of racism in explaining rates of obesity.

But I’d hope we would agree on this:

Obesity is dangerous. It affects virtually every family, regardless of color.

And it’s past time we encourage each other to eat better & start moving.