Hugging and Chalking

This blog is about obesity and the inanity/insanity it spawns, the encroaching lawsuits and growing diet industry. Obesity is a matter of genes and personal responsibility. You can have an endocrine problem, or you can have a balance problem (too many calories and too little exercise). It’s not where you eat, but how much you eat; it’s not McDonald’s fault, or Mama’s fault, or Washington’s fault if your body is too fat or too thin. Rosabelle.

Monday, June 05, 2006

Immigrants learn our eating styles

When immigrants pick up our eating styles, they develop our BMI after 15 years. Hope their English progresses at that rate. My college roommate was born in China and now lives in Boston, via Rio De Janeiro. We got together about 15 years ago. She was just as tiny as during our college 40 years ago, and the recent Christmas photos don't reveal any change.

"Among different immigrant subgroups, number of years of residence in the United States is associated with higher BMI beginning after 10 years. The prevalence of obesity among immigrants living in the United States for at least 15 years approached that of US-born adults." JAMA. 2004;292:2860-2867.

posted by Rosabelle 4:00 PM  

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