Best cities for Meeting Single Black/African American Women (ages 21-30) (cost, rates)
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I would argue that the DC metro area has the fittest women. This is based on lifestyle and income. LA has some beautiful black women for sure but not in concentrated numbers like DC and the metro area.
You could argue that but the data doesn't bear it out.
Like I said, the entire U.S. is in denial about weight. Most people lash out against BMI but completely ignore that waistline circumference, upper arm circumference and sagittal abdominal diameter have also increased dramatically in only 30 years. Everyone on the internet claims to be 225 lb of solid muscle with 11% body fat yet the CDC says the median waist circumference for a man is around 40 inches. Only about 25% of American men have a waist smaller than 36 inches. In 1994, it was about 40-45%.
We also know that COVID-19 mortality is positively correlated with obesity.
Yeah, only that's not the case. We know this is not the case because because 41.4% of the women in that age group have a BMI of at least 30. So no, it's not the case that you have hundreds of thousands in the ATL metro hovering around 25.1 lol.
You haven't established that unless you can say where exactly that other 58% falls on the spectrum.
California has produced a ton of gorgeous Black women. Here are some who grew up in the state.
Gabrielle Union (moved to the Bay at 8)
Lauren London (grew up in LA)
Malika Andrews (grew up in Oakland)
Misty Copeland (grew up in San Pedro)
Ananda Lewis (grew up in LA)
Christina Milian (born in NJ; moved to MD, then LA at 13)
Lark Voorhies (moved to LA at 2)
Paula Patton (grew up in LA)
Jhene Aiko (grew up in LA)
Yara Shahidi (moved to LA as a child)
Meagan Good (grew up in LA)
Maia Campbell (born in MD; grew up in Ladera Heights)
Nia Long (born in NY, moved to LA at 7)
Zoe Kravitz (grew up in LA)
Zendaya Coleman (grew up in Oakland)
Bianca Lawson (grew up in LA)
Chloe and Halle Bailey (moved to LA from ATL)
Tessa Thompson (grew up in LA)
Jennifer Freeman (grew up in LA)
Amber Stevens-West (grew up in LA)
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OP's poll is trash because there's no option for LA, which is easily the best of the lot IMHO. You can come across women like this in Inglewood or Leimert Park and they're actually accessible and down to earth because so many successful Black men there are not trying to date Black women. As a result, a lot of the Black women there will have this strange inferiority complex where they might be a 7.5 in reality but think of themselves as a 6. In any other city they would be getting 4-5X the attention.
Imma keep it real the last time I was in LA didn't see a ton of Black women in comparison to cities like Atlanta, Houston, DC, NYC, DAL or even Philly. And the Black women I did see frequently they were fit but they were with White Men and it wasn't a ton of them at that.
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There is no way this is fully accurate. What metrics are you using and from what source?
Plus the problem with this measure is that having only +/-.1 BMI can have you considered "normal" or "overweight/underweight". So you're discounting thousands of people who's body types are likely very similar to those that fall within your definition of fit.
Right, and what is "normal" anyway...especially in this context. For example, prior to being married I preferred women of a "curvacious" nature whom would be "obese" on the bmi scale.
That is of course if you believe a 179 pound 6 foot guy who never works out and eats like a bird is at the same fitness level of another 6 foot tall 230 pound NFL quarterback. One of those people are "unhealthy" according to just BMI, and it's not the skinny guy that eats like crap.
Right, and what is "normal" anyway...especially in this context. For example, prior to being married I preferred women of a "curvacious" nature whom would be "obese" on the bmi scale.
That is of course if you believe a 179 pound 6 foot guy who never works out and eats like a bird is at the same fitness level of another 6 foot tall 230 pound NFL quarterback. One of those people are "unhealthy" according to just BMI, and it's not the skinny guy that eats like crap.
These BMI critiques are insufferable.
BMI is only one anthropemetric data point tracked by the CDC. The CDC also collects data related to central obesity, arm/leg circumference and abdominal diameter.
People go on the attack against BMI because it can be dismissed as European junk science even though it is strongly correlated with coronary disease, hypertension and Covid mortality. But if the attack is simply based on it being inaccurate as far as appearance goes, then we can look to waist circumference and abdominal diameter instead, which are also strongly correlated with BMI.
BMI is only one anthropemetric data point tracked by the CDC. The CDC also collects data related to central obesity, arm/leg circumference and abdominal diameter.
People go on the attack against BMI because it can be dismissed as European junk science even though it is strongly correlated with coronary disease, hypertension and Covid mortality. But if the attack is simply based on it being inaccurate as far as appearance goes, then we can look to waist circumference and abdominal diameter instead, which are also strongly correlated with BMI.
Agreed. BMI has very strong correlation with overall health. It's not perfect, but a lot of the criticism towards it is based in denialism - people don't want to accept that they are often above the ideal level so it's dismissed as junk by many.
But the stats are what the stats are - high BMIs, regardless of physical appearance, are associated with higher mortality due to a variety of connected causes.
Agreed. BMI has very strong correlation with overall health. It's not perfect, but a lot of the criticism towards it is based in denialism - people don't want to accept that they are often above the ideal level so it's dismissed as junk by many.
But the stats are what the stats are - high BMIs, regardless of physical appearance, are associated with higher mortality due to a variety of connected causes.
Yeah. Our standards on the whole have become very warped over the years.
You could argue that but the data doesn't bear it out.
Like I said, the entire U.S. is in denial about weight. Most people lash out against BMI but completely ignore that waistline circumference, upper arm circumference and sagittal abdominal diameter have also increased dramatically in only 30 years. Everyone on the internet claims to be 225 lb of solid muscle with 11% body fat yet the CDC says the median waist circumference for a man is around 40 inches. Only about 25% of American men have a waist smaller than 36 inches. In 1994, it was about 40-45%.
We also know that COVID-19 mortality is positively correlated with obesity.
I am not in denial at all. You can simply look at family photo albums to see the differences over generations. I am a 48 year old black man. I am 6'3" @ 180lbs. My waste size is 34 and this is the biggest I've ever been. I am blessed and this blessing was bestowed upon my children. Both children (male and female) have zero body fat and are built in true human form.
I have family in LA and DC. The fit lifestyle is more pronounced in DC and I have never seen this in LA. The real LA.
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