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The bmi calculator has it flaws and it's not a big secret that black Americans(especially the women) are more likely than other populations (except maybe Pacific Islanders) to be working with a larger body frame. However, it's definitely possible as a black person to fit well within the BMI standard of what's considered normal weight. I think the vast majority of black people could technically have a normal body weight if we start to tweak our diet. I'm one of them, as I weighed 139.4 lbs with shoes on and a bmi of 21 or 22 just a week ago. I have my days where I eat very little sugar and carbs and I hit the gym most days of the week for the last 2.5 months. I also try to keep my food intake at no more than 2,000 calories per day. Even before I started on the journey to gain more muscle, I was still at normal weight according to BMI and conscious enough to manage the proportions of food consumed per meal, contributing to not being considered overweight(peaked at around 186-190 lbs) for the last decade. In general, the American diet consists of eating food with a lot of sodium, sugar, and carbohydrates everyday, and I think that plays a huge contributor in the general public having a lot of excess body fat and being 40% obese(noticed now we moved on to talking about obesity, as the nation is now 70-80% overweight and probably never will be reversed). When I walk outside and take a look around, I see a abundance of people with big bellies, so it's not as though it can necessarily be explained away with being fat or obese only according to bmi technicalities.
One day I was watching the news and they were saying there was a wrecked car and a heavy police presence around the corner from where I lived.
I scurried over there to see what was going on. I saw a smashed car that hit a tree, one fat cop talking to a tow truck driver, and that was it.
Is that what they meant ?
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