“….Let Them Talk”
Posted by Michelle Moquin on June 15th, 2009
A reader sent me this photo via email and asked me to blog it to show why some of my readers feel the way they do…Why OTW’s feel the need to vent.
Lawrence Beitler took this iconic photograph on August 7, 1930, showing the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. It sold thousands of copies, which Beitler stayed up for 10 days and nights printing them. It has become iconic over the years as it is one of the best and most recognisable images of lynchingwhich at the time was commonplace, but now serves only as a reminder of the pre-Civil Rights era. The photo shows a crowd that have turned out to view the lynching, and the audience a mixture of anger and fulfillment. The photo was so popular it has been the inspiration for many poems and songs down the years.
It actually says how cruel a race can be to another race. But it also says a lot more. Look at the people and what do you see? Amongst these people there is:
- A group that would do the lynching.
- A group that would not do the lynching but enjoy having it done.
- A group that may not revel in it but found nothing wrong in being there without objecting to the lynching.
- A group that may not have like it but did not have the will to object…nor did they have the guts to rise up and do something.
And then there’s the group that having seen the evidence of the violence in the 30′s, 40′s, 50′s, 60′s, and 70′s and but didn’t rise up and do anything about it.
Perhaps the Roberts get on their soapbox to keep this in front of us so that we don’t let it happen again.
It’s easy to be like Al to say “I didn’t do it.” or “I didn’t have anything to do with it.” or ”I can’t do anything about it”, because it is not happening to them. My only suggeston is, if you didn’t do it and you can’t do anything about it, then don’t do anything about the person who wants to bring it to our attention and wants to get on their soapbox and speak freely.
My opinion….”Just shut the fuck up and let them talk.” I tried to not use colorful language but sometimes it is necessary, and this is one of those times.
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June 15th, 2009 at 9:30 am
ZINC BOLSTERS IMMUNITY
Zinc, an essential element, exists in nearly every cell of the body and is critical to proper immune function. The importance of its role in providing immune support is not yet fully understood, though a new observational study sheds more light on its significance, especially in the elderly.
The recent study assessed the relationship of zinc to health in 578 residents, mean age 84, across 33 nursing homes in Boston. Compared with residents who had low zinc levels, people with normal levels had fewer cases of pneumonia, required fewer antibiotic prescriptions for it, and when they did get pneumonia, they had it for fewer days. Additionally, patients with normal zinc levels had a 39% lower all-cause mortality rate than those with low zinc levels.
You might think an obvious solution would be to give zinc supplements to everyone with low serum zinc levels. But it’s not really so simple, explains Simin N. Meydani, DVM, PhD, of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston, one of the study authors. Key questions need to be answered first, Dr. Meydani told me. First, she says, there is the need to explore what’s an appropriate level of zinc for the elderly. Excess zinc disrupts the balance of other minerals including copper and iron and, ironically, it also may have an adverse reaction — weakening the immune response in some people. As with almost all natural and synthetic compounds, there are optimal individual doses. Dr. Meydani says that Tufts researchers are now planning a study of nursing home residents to investigate what serum levels of zinc are most beneficial.
In the meantime, though, there is enough evidence from this and previous studies to underscore the importance of maintaining adequate zinc levels. You can obtain zinc from dietary sources, in particular oysters, as well as red meat, poultry, beans and dairy. However, some medications such as antacids interfere with zinc metabolism, as do certain infections or chronic inflammation so, as always, consult your physician.
Source(s): ??Simin N. Meydani, DVM, PhD, of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston.?
June 15th, 2009 at 9:36 am
I am watching an MSNBC documentary. It was entitled “Dark Heart Iron Hand.” Now that I am older and wiser about the ways of the white boy it irritates me that they associate evil with color. The color of course is always dark. Men of color, especially black men are evil. That is the subliminal message the white boy is always putting out there.
I mean why do white serial killers have to have a “dark” heart? After all they are white through and through while they are killing and raping women. But lo and behold, once they start doing evil shit, their hearts turn black.
So I guess all those white boys that hung, mutilated, and hurt my people in evil ways had “dark” hearts. To us who have been the victims of whites, it is the WHITE heart we have to worry about.
But since we are not in charge of the propaganda that whites use to keep the white race in an exalted position we have to endure titles like “the Dark Heart of a killer and the Iron hand of justice.” I tell all OTWs that I come across that it is their duty to voice out laud to their children and young everywhere that this is an attempt by the white boy to subliminally make them others believe that any color but white and blue is bad, especially black.
These programs are also steeped in the white boy blaming a woman for the actions of the sick males. It is emphasized that the trigger for Michael Ross was the turmoil his girl friend put him through. It is implied that had she been more pleasant to him he would not have raped and killed 8 females., two only 14 years old. White boys never take responsibility for what they do. And they are always surprised that a white boy from a “good home,” or Ivy league school has committed a crime. The propaganda implication is that white people must under go an aberration to commit a crime. It just is not part of their nature.
The problem with that is statistics show that more than 90% of all crime in America is committed by whites. 97& of the money stolen by criminals is stolen by white people. 73% of the murders done in America are done by white people. Yet almost 90% of the prison population is made up of OTWs. Most of death row in America is populated by OTWs.
Does it take a brain surgeon to figure out that the justice system in this country is racist and bent on incarcerating OTWs? Yet the average white will try to convince you that OTWs are the chief cause of crime in America. OTWs steal $100.00 and they get 20 to 40 years of hard time. The Madoffs steal billions and get a few years in a cushiony jail cell. But the average white boy will swear that their is no need to do anything about the legal system. As far as he knows it is fair to everyone.
Hypocrisy and lies by the most whites make it easy for the racist and criminal element of the justice to operate with impunity.
Then there is the “Iron hand of justice” part. Another piece of white boy bullshit. The only time they use any “Iron hand of justice” is when they are railroading or sentencing an OTW. Think about it how many white serial killers do you know who have received the death penalty as compared to the OTWs who commit murder.
There is another sick thing about the white boy. He is fascinated with serial killers. It’s as if they are just as sociopathic as the serial killers. They experience vicariously the cruelty of those killers. Serial killer movies, books and documentaries are some of the biggest hits and sellers because they love them and have the discretionary income to support them. Movies that show super heroes that have a cruel side are called things like the “Dark Knight,” to signify their arbitrary and cruel treatment of their suspects. Again “Dark” has the overt and subliminal effect of implying that dark is evil or bad. These “Dark” super heros too are big winners at the box office.
What happened in Germany, Yugoslavia, and America’s early years is an example of how white boys lie in wait for the opportunity to act out their secret desire to murder, maim and terrorize the defenseless. Give them a uniform and a little authority and they are off terrorizing white women and OTWs.
White police falsely accuse, falsely arrest, brutalize, rape, and murder far more OTWs than any other group in America. That is precisely why the white boy constantly bombards the airwaves with the propaganda that cops are heros. That is precisely why they continually portray police service as military service.
They want to overtly and subliminally convince the populace that cops are risking their lives for the community for unselfish and even heroic reasons.. As someone pointed out on this blog, the decision of becoming a law enforcement officer is a choice. It differs from the choice of becoming a military member because once joining the military one is forced to serve out her/his choice regardless of the danger she/he is ordered to face.
Any law enforcement officer can quit anytime she/he chooses. They assume the risk for the pay and perks. How is that different from any other decision a person makes when they choose a job? Are you called a hero for just performing your job? Being accosted by bad guys is part of the job description.
Unless the law and enforcement officer does something above and beyond the job requirement she/she is no hero. The Holocaust Museum guard was not a hero. He died doing what his job description said he should do, protect the visitors and the exhibit. He got paid to do that job. He could have refused to do that job and accept the risks by quitting. A soldier cannot refuse to do their job by quitting. They have to serve out their enlistment.
Even though military personal have to face any danger they are ordered to they are not considered heros warranting medals to convey the honor unless they do something that is considered above and beyond the call of duty. Yet the white boy routinely bombards the public with the idea that a cop is a hero simply because she/he is a cop. BULLSHIT!
The reason is cops are used to keep the OTW in fear and in line. And it allows them to enter any courtroom with the presumption of truth being on their side. My advice to any OTW serving as a jurist is to give no more weight to their testimony than you would anybody else. They, as a group, are one of the biggest lying sacks of shit ever to raise their hand in a court of law and swear on a bible. They have no incentive to NOT lie. They are rarely convicted of perjury. Less than one tenth of one percent of those suspected of having perjured themselves have ever been charged with perjury.
The legal entity as a whole has an interest in keeping the public from knowing how often those representing the prosecution on a city, state and federal level lie to obtain an indictment and/or conviction. It is widely joked that any Grand Jury can be convinced to indict a rock. The average person has no idea what a grand jury is much less how it goes about doing its job. It is a joke.
The checks and balances on law enforcement personal is non existent. If you think the openly criminal behavior of cops and the DAs in Texas that selectively stop and rob people driving through their cities is an aberration of normal white police enforcement, you are so mistaken.
That is the norm for OTWs. Everyday of our lives we live in fear of the police. Or more to the point the power of while law enforcement to abuse us in any way they choose.
Obama may be the President of the United States, but if were stopped by a white cop he could be murdered and the police would be leaking a police record that said he had a police record as long as your arm. The murderer knows that the worst he can expect to happen to him is that he would be tried by a white jury. He knows that no white jury is going to convict a “hero” for killing a nigger.
Before you say that’s over the top. Goolgle police brutality, cops on trail for accusation of OTW brutality, cops on trial for murdering OTWs, etc. etc. you will find that they have a conviction rate of less than one tenth of 1%.
The real issue is that this is just the ones who have been so egregious that the legal system was forced to charge those thugs with badges with a crime. More than 99& of the time the cop is NOT charged with anything. His record can’t even be accessed to see how may allegations he has in the accusing him of misconduct.
Add to all that the fact that cops lie for each other nearly 100% of the time and you have a formula made for the racists, bigots, and criminals looking to use their badges to commit crimes without fear of having to answer for them.
Most whites will pretend they are unaware of the situation I have described for you above. They are liars. They know exactly what the police are doing. They don’t care because they don’t think it will happen to them or theirs because they are white.
Some whites feel they have the right to act out if they just feel they are mistreated by the government in any way. We OTWs have learned to just ride with the indignation’s and the abuse. You don’t see us going around shooting innocent people because we feel we were falsely convicted, or we could have our guns taken away, or we will be prevented from using religion to practice pedophilia and force women to be sex slaves called “wives.”
I’m sure the Al’s and Howies, and George’s are tired of hearing another OTW complain about on fair treatment my whites. But this is a blog that allows me to vent without acting out so I do.
Al, this is not a personal petition to you. I am not asking you or expecting you to do anything I am just venting.
Thank you Michelle for the opportunity to vent and the blog to vent on.
Thais
June 15th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Michelle.
You really are ignorant, more so than I ever dreamed possible!
You are also a very sneaky and “dishonest” woman.
Al
June 15th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Michelle,
Such a continued and impressive showing of intelligence, honesty, compassion and tolerance to your readership and your delivery of truth.
Excellent work!
There will come a day to which more ignorant or blinded white men hear, see, or experience something that will be their wakeup call or slap to reality
Those newly found compassionate men will join the cause of global inequality of all races and sexes to other’s skin, religious, nationality or sexual preference will help change the tides of such racist and sexist fanatical thought processes in order to help pave new generations of people with new, intelligent and enlightened thought.
But it is obvious there is yet road to travel.
Al,
It ain’t always about you.
June 15th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Michelle,
Such a continued and impressive showing of intelligence, honesty, compassion and tolerance to your readership and your delivery of truth.
Excellent work!
There will come a day to which more ignorant or blinded white men hear, see, or experience something that will be their wakeup call or slap to reality
Those newly found compassionate men will join the cause of global inequality of all races and sexes to other’s. skin, religious, nationality or sexual preference will help change the tides of such racist and sexist fanatical thought processes in order to help pave new generations of people with new, intelligent and enlightened thought.
But it is obvious there is yet road to travel.
Al,
It ain’t always about you.
June 15th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Michelle:
I am new to your blog. My wife introduced me to it yesterday to draw my attention to “George.” I am a doctor. I have never had a minority patient, but I would have no problem treating one.
You have put together a powerful vehicle for understanding. If more of us got on soap boxes and voiced our discontent with the way we treat each other, this country would become the place for equality that presently only white men truly enjoy.
It is so true that we as white men refuse to acknowledge that we enjoy a special place of privilege in this country.
The picture you published has been in my family’s library for as long as I can remember. We have proudly shown it and many others, some worst than this one.
The picture you put on your blog may make some of us uncomfortable for different reasons. But it emphasizes the need to address the sufferings of minorities in this country.
I have no minority friends or associates. But I agree with my wife, the time has come to cease ignoring the injustices I have been refusing to acknowledge that minorities receive.
I can’t go back and reeducate my children to encourage them to be more sensitive to those who complain that they don’t have the same opportunities as white america.
But I will not allow my home to be a meeting place any longer for bigotry.
I did not vote for President Obama. I still find it difficult to accept a black man as President of the United States of America. But I will work to keep an open mind.
Mark
June 15th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Hi Mischa,
That’s a powerful and hideous image, the fact that anyone thought that was remotely OK astounds me – mob mentality is such an ugly thing and some/many white males are historically: cruel.
- Zen Lill
June 15th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Great! Impressive! Needed!
I have never written in but I can say bravo. You have reminded me of what I did not do when I first received similar pictures of cruelties we visited upon negroes 20 years ago.
I don’t understand Al’s objection. Maybe he is still in denial.
Hines
June 15th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Mark
I have a wife who introduced me to this blog via an article she wanted me to read. I have been married to her of 35 years. Never seen her so involved in politics.
I live in Virginia. She defied me and campaigned for the democrat for governor. Your blog is becoming an issue in more than a few households.
Al:
sir, would you please tell me what issues you have with Michelle. I am new to this blog and I could use a quick synapsis of who she is.
Why do you say she is ignorant? And be specific as to what is she is “sneaky and dishonest” about.
Bert
June 15th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Michelle:
Thanks for the photo. I have seen it before, but it needs to be shown again and again. I don’t hate white people or any other people.
I would like to also thank you for appealing to the Al’s who seem to want to shut us up because it makes them uncomfortable to hear about or see the cruelty some of their race can do without a conscious.
Al, I am sorry if it makes you uncomfortable to hear me from my soapbox. It makes me feel uncomfortable to have to speak about things so personal to me.
It makes me comfortable to have to see police lights in my review mirror. I usually hold my breath until the cop passes me.
Would that be you natural reaction to police lights in you review mirror if you had done nothing to warrant a stop by the police?
I too would like to have that feeling. But a year ago I was riding with my brother when we were pulled over. They pulled us over because the left tail light had been busted in the mall we had left about 10 minutes earlier.
The two cops asked how him how he could afford a mercedes. My brother said that was none of his business.
The other cop hit him in the head with his baton so hard it shattered his ear drum. They ordered me out of the car and proceeded to paw me in a search for weapons. I had on a sun dress and with a thong underneath.
They raised my dress and asked my brother if he like my ass? The they smacked my ass cheeks and told us to be on our way.
They later answered our police police brutality complaint with the statement; “how can they say we were racists, we didn’t give the boy a ticket for his broken tail light.”
Our complaint was dismissed and my brother still is deft in that ear.
No, you did not do it Al. And No you are not responsible for what they did.
However, if you feel uncomfortable about me relating my angst about white cops, then don’t read it. Skip to the comments that make you feel more comfortable.
Why do you attack Michelle because she acknowledges the right of everyone on this blog to say whatever they want to.
You have the right to criticize her. I am not questioning that right. I am only asking you to be more specific about your accusations.
What are the issues in which she was sneaky and dishonest about?
Thais
June 15th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
It seems that Robert was right again. Cops feel so secure that the public won’t hold their “heroes” accountable that one tases a 70 year old woman
Alice
June 15th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Alice, Robert was so right about our “heroes” in blue. I just watched a CNN clip of an Oklahoma City cop who pulls over an ambulance speeding down the highway with a patient in it. the cop pulls over the ambulance because he wanted it to let him go first.
He was prepared to arrest the help attendant to the patient because he complained that the patient had to taken to the hospital.
Yeah, our “heroes” are acting out without concern that they will be held accountable for their actions. Here is the site. http://clkurl.com/?em631903 to enable you to see the video.
Maria
June 15th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
thank you for this article.
June 15th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
A diet high in meat and poultry increases cancer risk. Here’s why…
Sedentary farm animals tend to have more body fat than wild or free-range animals. High-fat meat and poultry contain more arachidonic acid, a fatty acid that promotes cell-damaging inflammation.
Cattle often are given hormones to make them bigger. When we eat their meat, we ingest residual hormones that may stimulate cancer growth.
Preserved, cured and smoked meats — such as hot dogs, ham, bacon, salami and smoked turkey — contain preservatives called nitrites, which the body can convert into carcinogenic nitrosamines.
Grilling meat or poultry allows fat to drip onto coals, forming carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) — which smoke then deposits onto the food.
To decrease your risk…
Choose meats and poultry labeled “free-range,” which generally contain less fat.
To avoid hormones, opt for poultry or pork (the USDA prohibits hormone use in these animals)… or buy beef labeled “hormone-free.”
Select nitrite-free brands of deli meats, hot dogs and bacon.
When grilling, stick to vegetables, which do not form PAHs. If you do grill meat, cut off charred bits.
Limit serving sizes of meat and poultry to three or four ounces — about the size of a woman’s palm.
Women’s Health interviewed Timothy C. Birdsall, ND, vice president of integrative medicine for Cancer Treatment Centers of America, a national network of cancer care facilities. Based in Zion, Illinois, he is the coauthor of How to Prevent and Treat Cancer with Natural Medicine (Riverhead). http://www.cancercenter.com.
June 15th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Wonder job today.
I know you are reading this Al. Please return with that sass. But put a sock in the attacks on Michelle.
Looks like justice may be catching up with the bush administration. i found this on the web.
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Saturday, June 13, 2009 (SF Chronicle)
Judge: Ex-Bush lawyer can be sued over torture
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
A prisoner who says he was tortured while being held for nearly four years
as a suspected terrorist can sue former Bush administration lawyer John
Yoo for coming up with the legal theories that justified his alleged
treatment, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled Friday.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White’s decision marks the first time a
government lawyer has been held potentially responsible for the abuse of
detainees.
“Like any other government official, government lawyers are responsible
for the foreseeable consequences of their conduct,” White said in refusing
to dismiss Jose Padilla’s lawsuit against Yoo.
If Padilla, now serving a 17-year prison sentence on terrorism charges,
can prove his allegations, he can show that Yoo “set in motion a series of
events that resulted in the deprivation of Padilla’s constitutional
rights,” White said.
White, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, noted that
Padilla’s lawsuit accuses Yoo of helping to design administration policy
on detention and torture, and then crafting legal opinions to justify it -
stepping outside the usual role of a lawyer.
Yoo, a UC Berkeley law professor, was an attorney in the Justice
Department’s Office of Legal Counsel from 2001 to 2003 and wrote a series
of memos on interrogation, detention and presidential powers.
The best-known memo, written to then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales
in 2002, said rough treatment of captives amounted to torture only if it
caused the same level of pain as “organ failure, impairment of bodily
function or even death.” The memo also said the president may have the
constitutional power to authorize torture of enemy combatants. ‘Any means
necessary’
A 2001 Yoo memo, made public by the Obama administration, said U.S.
military forces could use “any means necessary” to seize and hold terror
suspects in the United States.
Yoo could not be reached at his Berkeley office Friday. A spokesman for
the Justice Department, which is representing him and has argued for
dismissal of the suit, was unavailable for comment.
Padilla’s lawyers issued a statement saying they are “pleased that our
client will get his day in court and the right to challenge the
unconstitutional conduct to which he was subjected.” Unique ruling
John Eastman, law school dean at Chapman University in Orange County,
where Yoo taught for the past year, said the ruling is unique – the first
to hold any administration official potentially liable for alleged
mistreatment of terrorist suspects.
Eastman predicted that the Justice Department will file an immediate
appeal, going to the Supreme Court if necessary. Padilla, a U.S. citizen,
was arrested in Chicago in 2002 and accused by the Bush administration of
plotting with al Qaeda to detonate a radioactive “dirty bomb.”
Declared an enemy combatant, Padilla was held in a Navy brig for three
years and eight months and was denied all contact with the outside world
for the first half of that period, his suit said. He was then taken out of
the brig and charged with taking part in an unrelated conspiracy to
provide money and supplies to Islamic extremist groups. He was convicted
and has appealed.
His suit against Yoo covers his time in the brig. He says he was detained
illegally, held for lengthy periods in darkness and blinding light,
subjected to temperature extremes and sleep deprivation, confined in
painful stress positions, and threatened with death to himself, harm to
his family and transfer to a nation where he would be tortured. Claims of
mistreatment
The suit said Yoo – who has acknowledged being a member of an
administration planning group known as the “war council” – personally
reviewed and approved Padilla’s detention in the brig and provided the
legal cover for his treatment.
At a hearing in March, Justice Department lawyer Mary Mason told White
that courts had no power to scrutinize high-level government
decision-making, especially in wartime.
But White said Friday that Padilla had a right to sue “the alleged
architect of the government policy” on enemy combatants. He said an
examination of Yoo’s publicly disclosed writings would not damage national
security, and an inquiry into “allegations of unconstitutional treatment
of an American citizen on American soil” would not affect foreign
relations.
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Lois
June 15th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Michelle et al, I would like to clarify myself on this blog once and for all. I totally agree with Robert’s following comment, and have been wanting to say so in my own words, that I believe in Robert’s comment. “some men are mean to all women some of the time, but ALL men are NOT mean to even some women even some of the time.”
Just like the above comment, “some white men are bigots to all OTW’s some of the time, but ALL White Men are NOT mean to even some OTW’s even some of the time.”
I have not been simple enough in my comments to get to these simple points across. I have put my foot in my mouth many times because I have written too much, and avoided the simple truth about many things. As I have written and practice in my life daily, I am not a bigot nor a pussy in any way, or sense of those words.
I simply feel that any group can be stirred up by a Fanatical leader to say and do things they normally would not.
Sometimes one must be totally objective, which is terribly difficult to do, especially when emotions are involved, or name calling begins. This destroys the objectivity and brings on defensiveness and name calling to anyone – myself included many times.
I really agree with the idea that Women should always have been equal to Men and are, in my eyes. Not everyone agrees with this. Therefore the forum of conflicting beliefs.
I have been mistaken and misunderstood many times and would like to set the record straight.
This past year we have had a Woman running for President, a Woman running for Vice President, a Woman appointed as Supreme Court Justice and an OTW win the election for President. Can things be that wrong if these equal opportunities are happening right now?
One of my comments was taken out of context and all I meant was that Women have the equality to make it to the top in Politics and Law. There are some roads that need support to fight off the bigots who have been running things for so long. They want to keep it that way. Right or Wrong . . . Wouldn’t you?
Please see that I am 100% for equality of Women, OTW’s and any one else who feels slighted of their natural rights. Anyone who knows me in the flesh, knows that I believe in total equality and practice it too. I have a heart the size of Texas and this is the indelible truth.
HOWIE
June 15th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
for the record, I believe you Howie
June 15th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Robert
I am a black woman. Well my father is black (half black and half Japanese) and my mother is white. I have been passing for white all my life 35 years. I am the head of the french branch of a French American conglomerate.
Here in France, I have discovered my roots. When I return home I have decided that i will live as a black woman. I have never had a relationship with a black man. Any suggestions?
If it will matter. I am 5’4″ tall, 34-21-34. I have been told that I am very beautiful by both men and women. Frankly, I am very aware of the effect I have on both sexes.
I am not shy. But I am nervous about entering the social arena with black men. I am an only child. My mother is an only child and all my father’s relatives live in Japan or France. He is french, my mother is american.
I would also welcome advice from women who have or are having a relationship with a black man.
Melba
June 16th, 2009 at 1:54 am
BMI AS MARKER FOR COLON CANCER
Evidence continues to accumulate that obesity leads to a higher risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke and many cancers. Most recently, a Swedish study indicated that a high BMI or body mass index is associated with a higher risk of colon cancer. This comes as no surprise to Edward L. Giovannucci, MD, ScD, a professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health and epidemiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. For more than a decade, he has been looking into the links between physical inactivity, obesity and colon cancer. The good news — losing just 5% to 10% of your body weight can lower your colon cancer risk, says Dr. Giovannucci.
BMI: A PRIMER
While not a perfect measure, BMI is an easy-to-use tool that quickly screens for excess weight that can correlate with dangerous health conditions. To learn your BMI, simply visit the Web site of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute at http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/ and plug in your height and weight — your number will appear.
BMI categories are:
• Underweight = lower than 18.5
• Normal weight = 18.5 to 24.9
• Overweight = 25 to 29.9
• Obese = 30 or higher
This latest research demonstrates that people whose BMI puts them in the obese category experience as much as a 20% greater risk of colon cancer — but, of course, it’s not about BMI alone. There may well be a connection between the poor digestive and bowel health that results from poor eating habits. Waist circumference is another important risk factor for colon cancer, since abdominal fat or an “apple” shape is associated with obesity-related diseases. It’s important to note that while the correlation between BMI and body fat is strong, it is not perfect. Athletes have a high but healthful BMI because of their increased musculature… women tend to have more body fat than men with the same BMI… and older people typically have more body fat than young people with the same BMI.
LOWER YOUR BMI AND MAYBE ?COLON CANCER RISK TOO
Obviously, for optimal health, your goal should be a BMI in the “normal weight” category. If your BMI is edging up into the overweight or obese categories, make changes in diet and exercise now before it’s too late. According to Dr. Giovannucci, it’s especially important to prevent or minimize the weight gain that typically creeps up on us in middle age. He notes that even moderate activities such as regular brisk walking can help control weight gain and potentially reduce the risk of colon cancer.
Source(s): ??Edward L. Giovannucci, MD, ScD, a professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health, and epidemiologist, department of medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.