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The Pan-American Health Organisation reports that in Jamaica 52 per cent of persons 15-74 years old are obese by accepted medical standards. Obesity is most prevalent among Jamaican women, indeed 65 per cent of them are obese. Put bluntly, that is two out of three.
Again, the vast majority of victims are in the lower income groups, which suggests that it is diet that is at fault. Higher income groups seem to eat better, although they can eat anything and everything.
As is our habit, we turn disaster into triumph and adversity into virtue. We admire women who are at least twice their appropriate weight and size, especially if they are endowed with gigantic posteriors squeezed into clothing several sizes too small. It is a myth that being overweight is an inevitability because the majority of us are of African descent. But "fluffy" is fat and dangerously unhealthy.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/edito...-women_7963424
Again, the vast majority of victims are in the lower income groups, which suggests that it is diet that is at fault. Higher income groups seem to eat better, although they can eat anything and everything.
As is our habit, we turn disaster into triumph and adversity into virtue. We admire women who are at least twice their appropriate weight and size, especially if they are endowed with gigantic posteriors squeezed into clothing several sizes too small. It is a myth that being overweight is an inevitability because the majority of us are of African descent. But "fluffy" is fat and dangerously unhealthy.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/edito...-women_7963424
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