WHY SO MANY BLACK WOMEN ARE OVERWEIGHT --And What They Can Do About It.

Ebony | March 1, 2000| | Copyright

THE good news: For the most part big beautiful Black women are self-confident, content with their lives and are not on a destructive mission to transform themselves into living Barbie dolls. The bad news: Obesity experts say that too many Black women are caring themselves to death.

The National Center for Health Statistics' reports that more than one-half (54.3 percent) of Americans are obese, with Black women comprising the most overweight segment of the U.S. population, followed by Hispanic women. Rubbing salt into the wounds of overweight Black women is the ...

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