The HARSH truth about obesity in our community

But in the UK, Black ethnicity, overweight and obese equates for about 74.8%, right? And obesity only is about 35%.

In the US, black adults overall, very similar actually, Obese and overweight, around 70%.

Obese specifically, 42.6%.

And when it comes to males in the US, 37.1%.

When it comes to women, almost 60% of women, black women in the US are obese.

Sorry, yeah, obese, which is, that is pretty crazy.

And then in the UK, let me just get this up.

A recent survey by Health Survey for England, HSE, They found that black Caribbean, black African and Pakistani background women are more likely to be overweight or obese.

A study found that black women were more than twice as likely to be obese compared to white women, even after controlling for other health factors.

In a 2013 study, which is a little bit dated, 24% of black women had a BMI of over 30 compared to 9% of women.

uh more than double which is pretty pretty crazy so before we get into the the you know the meat and bones of it one thing to bear in mind when it comes to bmi body mass index that is just height and weight so that doesn't that doesn't account for body fat percentage and when i look at the health and wellness of an individual like me as a coach when i'm when i was coaching people and i was assessing them i would look at their body fat percentage so i'd get them on a body fat scale you can do the calipers test those are different things you can do But that was my barometer rather than just putting them on a scale.

Cause that's not always the fairest method.

Cause there's guys that do bodybuilding who are quote unquote overweight or obese, but they also fit strong, you know, lots of muscle mass.