Black folks, I clearly get it that one can big and beautiful, yes I get the need for self-esteem and being sexy. I understand the acronym BBW ‘Big Beautiful Women and Big Black Women’.
However I also get it from a medical ‘health perspective’ that being too big and Black ‘overweight and obese’ causes many chronic diseases. Studies show that over 70% of Black women are overweight or obese. I understand obesity is a more complex health issue to address, it’s much more than ‘BMI’ measuring excessive body weight.
Obesity results from a combination of causes and contributing factors, including individual factors such as behavior and genetics. Behaviors can include dietary patterns, physical activity, inactivity, medication use, and other exposures. Additional contributing factors include racism, poverty, stress, mental health; the food and physical activity environment, education and skills, and food marketing and promotion.
Despite the complexity of the causes of obesity being too big and beautiful aint gone stop severe health problems; it aint gone stop heart disease, stroke, diabetes, hypertension, etc! Recent evidence shows that obesity is associated with a higher risk of developing severe symptoms and complications of Coronavirus Disease 19 independent of other illnesses.
Sistas this post aint about ‘fat shaming’, it’s briefly ‘fact stating’ about obesity related killer diseases. Unfortunately COVID-19 don’t care nothing about ‘BBW’, it's causing disproportionate ’BBD’ Big Black Deaths.
