REDUCE BLACK OBESITY: Movie: Post-Traumatic Slave Diet

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Movie: Post-Traumatic Slave Diet

There is a current obesity epidemic in the Black community that's a major contributing factor to the alarming high rates of killer chronic Black illnesses such as Heart Disease, Strokes, and Diabetes.

The movie below 'Post-Traumatic Slave Diet' explores our forced 'dysfunctional' and 'disordered' relationship with food originating in our racist enslavement.

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Stopping Emotional Eating And Being More Physically Active to Reduce Black Obesity

Obesity is a growing epidemic in Black communities, nearly 40 percent of Blacks are obese, experts state that half of Black children growing up today will have diabetes when they become adults.

From my perspective there are 2 primary causes of obesity in Black communities - 'Emotional Eating' and 'Sittting Lifestyle'.

Emotional eating is when Black people eat to cope with life; eating to calm stress and avoid uncomfortable feelings. Emotional overeating is one of the major causes of why weight loss plans fail. As Black people addressing our emotional issues and learning to manage our stress will give us the self-control to reduce obesity.

Obesity related diseases like diabetes can also be reduced significantly by being physically active - exercising. Regular exercise can not only protect you from obesity and non-insulin dependent diabetes, it can prevent heart disease and stroke, high blood pressure, back pain, osteoporosis, and can improve your mood and help you to reduce stress.

For the geatest overall health benefits, experts recommend that you do 20 to 30 minutes of aerobic activity three or more times a week and some type of muscle strengthening activity and stretching at least twice a week.

Increasing our physical activity will require how we as Black people socialize, we have become 'sitters' , we sit and talk whether on the phone or face-to-face, we sit and watch television, we sit using the computer, we sit too often just to 'chill'; we have developed a sit-down philosophy and this outlook is killing us prematurely. Instead of all this sitting and talking, let us start walking and talking.

Let us begin a movement to move to reduce Black obesity. - Kenny Anderson