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On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 20:43:13 GMT, "cul8r" <joeBalls@mindspring.net>
wrote:

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>"Muh Dick" <itsbiggerthanyours@HUGE.com> wrote in message 
>news:ejamh.2738$T%3.683@trndny08...
>> Is Mary Stewart overweight? Is she a big girl? I mean a real big woman? 
>> Should she visit weight-watchers? I am concerned because that's what I 
>> heard, and too much fat around the heart is not good. Hear that Phil? What 
>> are *you* doing about it? Or are you taking care of your own issues...not 
>> the physical ones, but the mental ones.
>>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>      Thursday, April 7, 2005
>     Office of Minority Health
>      (240) 453-6903
>
>
>HHS Launches African American Anti-Obesity Initiative
>HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt announced today the award of $1.2 million to 
>improve efforts to reduce obesity among African Americans through a new 
>partnership with national African American organizations.
>
>"The obesity epidemic is one of the major health challenges facing our 
>nation, and African American communities are highly affected by this disease 
>and its health consequences," Secretary Leavitt said. "The initiative we are 
>announcing today will mobilize three of the nation's premier academic and 
>civic organizations to join us in a new partnership to mount critical 
>prevention efforts in the African American community."
>
>The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), 
>Silver Spring, Md., will work with the National Urban League, New York, 
>N.Y., and the National Council of Negro Women, Washington, D.C. Initiatives 
>planned by these organizations include prevention, education, public 
>awareness, and outreach activities intended to bring about a greater 
>understanding of the impact of obesity on other conditions.
>
>An estimated 129.6 million Americans, or 64 percent, are overweight or 
>obese. Obesity and overweight have been shown to increase the risk of 
>developing serious and often disabling medical conditions. Adult African 
>American women had age-adjusted obesity rates of 48.8 percent, compared to 
>30.7 percent for adult white women, according to data from the Centers for 
>Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the period 1999-2002. African 
>American girls and boys also had higher rates of overweight than white 
>children in the same age groups.
>
>http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2005pres/20050407.html

Same for the frigging hispanics. 

Max
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