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From wapt.com:

Body mass index, a common measurement of obesity that compares weight to height, overestimates body fat in black people, according to a new study.

Dr. Samuel Dagogo-Jack said that a black person with the same BMI as a white person — that is, the same gender, waist size, weight and height — will usually have lower fat and abdominal fat.Dagogo-Jack and his team at the University of Tennessee used more direct measurements of body fat to see if they corresponded to what BMI seemed to indicate.He said that the finding that black people have lower body fat suggests that average muscle mass may be higher in black people.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Shequita_banana/ Shequita_banana

    I can definately believe that…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/John8verse7/ John8verse7

    what good is having more muscle if you dont use it? You gain muscle in the gym!!!!! Lets get it!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Stan_Vinyl/ Stan_Vinyl

    We were here first, why would we not be further evolved?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/The_Lion_of_God/ The_Lion_of_God

    This is another example of a misuse of science. When are Black people going to realize that this is nothing more than junk science. The study was composed of 53 Black people and 40 white people. So how is it that only 93 people out of a country of 300 million draw an accurate conclusion? Really this study is to do nothing more than reinforce the we are natural athletes that lack intelligence. It’s time for people in general to stop being spoonfed junk science. The is a only a 0.1% difference in the genetic makeup between two people of the same gender. You can see a lot of difference in that 0.1% but it does not mean that you allow some ‘elite’ scientist to create some genetic pecking order to distinguish between races of people.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/carolinaboy3/ carolinaboy3

    Well our ancestors were strong because they were slaves so we were always althletic while white folks sat on their asses…………

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/solsa_7/ solsa_7

    We go a lot more of everything not just muscles but brains, that seems to be like muscles suffering from Apathy from reading this lol!! Hey THE MOST HIGH broke the mold when making us Real Talk.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/IndioLatino/ IndioLatino

    TRASH!! JUST TO CAUSE A DEBATE WITH A RACE.. THIS IS WHY THIS WORLD IS FAILING, EVERYTHING IS A RACE ISSUE OR A DAMN DEBATE.. GOD BLESS THIS WORLD MAN, I’M SICK OF IT. WHY WON’T WE JUST FORGET ABOUT COLOR AND S**TTY ASS DEBATES AND TALK IN A LOGICAL SENSE INSTEAD OF FIGURING OUT WHO IS BETTER OR WHAT IS AN IMPORTANCE WHEN IN FACT IT’S NOT. BUT TRASH!!! LOL

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/snakesontheplane/ snakesontheplane

    More racist mad science that must be rejected outright. First of all it’s coming out of a sothern university-so we already know what time it is. No credible institution would ever fund such poppyc**k. It’s always about how blacks are more like animals than intelligent humans. How can we have, on the one hand, a higher BMI and, on the other, be the heaviest, fattest, community in the country which has some validity because it speaks to lifestyle and economics as opposed to genitics? This Cracker Jacks box study is utter crap plain and simple.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    the POWER is IN our skin!!! don’t believe me? do your research on black skin and the sun. BLACK people don’t listen to these uncle toms. WE ARE a SPECIAL group of people!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    @LATINO
    people forgetting about race isn’t logical! stop living in a fairytale

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/elishibathompson/ elishibathompson

    All this is just curiosity.i find no racism in this it actually is pretty true i used to way 300 pounds and i had no deltoids.it took me a week to build them up because i already had most of it.i find that to be true because a lot of white people have to work harder then we do to get result like that where as with me its mostly genetic.i weigh 260 and i blow up huge just after one work out thats not even hard.so there maybe truth in that.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blkking26/ blkking26

    WHY IS IT THAT WHENEVER BLACKS ARE CONSIDERED TO BE SUPERIOR TO WHITES ITS ONLY IN PHYSICAL PROWESS. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE EXTRAS MUSCLES WERE CONNECTED TO THE BRAIN AND INCREASED INTELLIGENCE. THEN IT WOULD BE CONSIDERED AN INDEPENDENT STUDY WITH NO RELEVANCE.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BraveO_N_E/ BraveO_N_E

    Thank you and people keep pointing out that our skin color is the only thing that separates us between the other races. They just a bunch of delusional idiots want-to-be-whitie who are afraid for others to know that they’re actually different.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    INTELLIGENCE?????
    you damn RIGHT. OUR people are the epitome of “intelligence”.
    “WE”were using calculus and trig in the ancient days. why do you think the pyramids are soooooo intricate.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sexymissmaria/ sexymissmaria

    I remember reading about how a mass grave was found in New York state years ago with the bodies of slaves and the bodies were incredibly malformed but they were extremely muscular. I have always thought that African Americans have more muscle because of the evolutionary changes our bodies made as collective through slavery. The New York story validated that in my opinion. I don’t know about Africans but I will say if both Africans and African Americans have more muscle than American whites it can mean American whites evolved/devolved because they didn’t have to use their muscle as much… My two cents on the story.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/southdade77/ southdade77

    MAN I WAS 15 AND I WAS BENCHING OVER THREE HUNDRED POUNDS I KNOW IT’S TRUE

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/snakesontheplane/ snakesontheplane

    See thats the trick bag that you fall into when buy into this poison. Walter Payton, or Jim Brown were only great atheletes because they were born with it natrualy, not because the had talent, worked harder than evrybody else, and were smarter, more creative, soulful atheltes on the field…Walter Payton use to tie wieghts to his body and run up a hill at a 45 degree angle in the mid day heat for hours to get in the kind of condition that made him …”Sweetness”. Remember what Jimmy The Greek said about how slavery made us great atheletes because it gave blacks bigger thighs and bigger butts, and shoulders! Folks this is sheer crap. I have known as many Erckles as I have known Mike Tysons, I have seen white fire fighters as wide as walls. Go to Europe, the average German woman is like 5’11 with bigger booties than sisters here in the states! This is a slippery slope yall if you buy into this evolutionary, genetic crap. If you do, you might as well buy into the Bell Curve theory along with it as the reason why blacks have done poorer on test than there white and Asian counter parts, because it’s the exact same logic at work.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ANIVAL2SORTO/ ANIVAL2SORTO

    *SIGHS*OH GOSH THE RACE FSACTOR AGAIN*ROLLS EYES* LOOK NO RACE IS SUPERIOR THEN OTHERS W ARE ALWAYS HUMANS WE OF ALL COLOURS.SHAPE,SIZES RUNS CRY,HAVE HUNGER,ANGER.LUST AND WE HAVE EMOTIONS AND WE HAVE BLOOD WE ARE JUST THE SAME NOTHING SPECIAL ABOUT BLACKS,WHITES,AND SPANISH AND THE OTHER RACES AND NO OFFENSE THE MIST POWERFUL DUDE ON EARTH IS A WHITE GUY :\

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    As dr karenga and dr khalid muhammad teaches us, black is not just a color but black is color. Culture. Consciousness and a corresponding cosmic connection

    For years the kkkracka said the pineal gland had no function it don’t for them. The pineal gland releases Melanine which gives us protection from the sun. Seratonin is what keep us cool and calm which balances us out. This is why that kkkracka cop tasered the 72 year old white woman

    Melaine which makes us black and keeps us connected with nature is one reason why the african dogon was able to spot the star sirius b with the naked eye and knew that it orbited serius a every 60 years way before the invention of the telescope

    Name me one thing the kkkracka ever created other than diseases.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    Jack johnson was knocking kkkrackas out in the ring and outside the ring he invwnted the wrench

    Kkkrackas was dying right and left from small pox in europe and the west when they gave it to the indigenos ppl to kill them off but it was a BLACK man named onesimus who cured small pox. all this white piece of shyt can do is give u pain killers

    Take everything out of amerikkka that’s african and all u will have is trees and rocks

    Look at the hige olmec heads our ancesors left here weighing 40 tons and had to be carried 80 miles from where they are presently at. No kkkrack aint never donw that

    Look at the great pyramids no kkkracka aint done that the white shyt is still wondering how in the hell did we do. But got u believing aliens built them

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AMANORFIRE82/ AMANORFIRE82

    NO NEED TO BE FOOL FOR NON-BLACKS PEOPLE SO Y’ALL NON-BLACKS GO FIGURE AT HUGEST STATUE OF THE PHARAOH KING WITH NEGROID FACE AND MUSCLES BODY ON THE THRONE AND KING OLYMPIAN RONNIE COLEMAN BIGGER THAN MR TERMANITOR ARNIE SCHWARZENEGGER!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    Somebody please tell me the differnce between a african and a african american

    Just because u put a bunny in a oven and it has little ones u don’t call them BISCUITS they are rabitts

    Africans was in da west long before the goddamn white boy. Abubukari came in 1311 and his brotha khan musa came in 1312 and when they arrived they were meet by black africans and we have the huge olmec heads to prove it that carbon dated at 1200 b c e. Before the christian era

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    A amonofire arnold schrazaneggar telling us who he wants to be. In germany shwartz/swartz mean BLACK. And we all know what negar is. Acts 13:1 there prphets and teachers…called NIGER. All vowels are interchangeable

  • http://www.blackplanet.com//

    ok 1st off how the hell can someones race have anything to do with their bmi? thats bulls**t. and to the guy (or gal) who is critiquin ‘ahnold’ swartzeneggar, he is from austria not germany. not that it has a damn thing to do with this article though.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    A dumb azz below they call us negro and negro is is latin. They call us afrikan and afrikan iis a european who sided with mascinasious to defeat hannible

    If you read what I wrote dumb azz I was talikng about melinin and the function of the pineal gland.

    The kkkracka changed yo name fool. And u just learned from about swartz

    Dumb azz negropean

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ZeddyDeaddy/ ZeddyDeaddy

    Never seen a race so proud of achieving nothing in comparison to Causasiod and Mongoloid. The only reason Blacks are more “Muscular” is because we bred them this way it is that simply. Look at Michelle Obama. Diesel and the product of half white and half slave parents.
    In 200 years African Americans will revert back to the thin emaciated muscle mass of their African Brethren. Breeding and that is all. similar to the Askenazi Jews being the amazing with numbers because of their occupation s for the past few centuries.
    eventually they will all look like our friend Maatra here who has to work out daily to look mildly muscular.
    Every race has been a slave at one time or another. Get over it and achieve something as a culture like the rest of the world. Their greatest achievement to date is a President who is Half white and more white than black…Raised by whites.
    Do not make the rest of your race suffer because of your Nigness.
    Do not act like trash and get an education.
    A man is a man. A Nig is no different that a guido or a redneck.
    Why do you think Guidos act like white Blacks?
    Because they have the same retard Sub-Saharan blood in them in the Sicillians. No coincidence they care only about material items.
    When Ever I see you Supernigs I get embarrased for my good friend who are Black and educated and have to put up with low lives like you disparaging their whole race. Evolve

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sienna1988/ Sienna1988

    @ZeddeyDeaddy: 200 years my ass. Sorry to burst your bubble but in 200 years the white race won’t even exist anymore. It’s already happening.

    We have more when it comes to muscle AND brains. You want to know why white people own and run everything though? Because as far back as damn near anybody can remember..white people have had an inferiority complex. Where they just HAVE to take over EVERYTHING. Have to control EVERYTHING to make up for the shortcomings they project on themselves. White people are the only race that have problems with EVERYONE ELSE. Guess what though? The white race is slowly disappearing. You can thank your white WOMEN for that^^.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sienna1988/ Sienna1988

    @ZeddyDeaddy: And how the hell do you breed black people with OTHER black people to make them more muscular dumb ass? That’d still mean that its already in our genes…….stupid as hell…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TSRUNWKFBDGQBU3TICJHRE4YNQ Good Sam

    Do your history research dumb azz. We came from Africa this way. If you go to Africa you will see more like us. We are the strongest because we were the first ones here. Everything else is an imitation which makes it generic. Like Penicillin versus Amoxicillin. Why do think people are automatically black if they have one drop of African DNA? It’s because it’s so strong and over powering. We are really the stronger human being, but deadly weapons forced us into a world of slavery and poverty over 400 years ago and now we have a lot of catching up to do. What white people to contribute to is our violent ways because they were so violent to us. With them having more of a head start then we have we are still fighting to get whats ours by right. The poverty in which we have endured has depressed some of us to a level of comfort and not wanting better for themselves. Some of us are just happy to be free so we don’t want to work.

    With this being said, we have overvome so many things when America thought we couldn’t. And for those of my people who don’t work now, I pity and pray for them but WHITE people sat on their azzez for 400 years and forced us to do their work so I’d say we’re even.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TSRUNWKFBDGQBU3TICJHRE4YNQ Good Sam

    EVERY RACE IN THE BOOK OVER-POWERS WHITE! WHITE MIXED WITH ANYTHING IS VOIDED! BLACK MIXED WITH EVERYTHING IS GUARANTEED TO BE BLACK!

    WHITE IS THE WEAKER RACE. THATS WHY IT HAS THE BIGGER BARK. THEY ARE ALWAYS COMPLAING AND DISCUSSING ABOUT OTHER RACES LIKE WHITE IS THE THING TO BE. NOT AT ALL. I LOVE MY SKIN THAT CAN STAND THE SUN, THAT DOESN’T CRACK AND AGES WELL. I LOVE IT WHEN PEOLPLE SEE ME AND SAY YOU STILL LOOK THE SAME.

    I HAD A WHITE WOMAN CRY AND TELL ME SHE WISH SHE HAD MY SKIN. SHE SAID I WILL NEVER HAVE THE PROBLEMS THAT SHE HAS. SHE HAD LOTS OF WRINKLES AND SADLY SHE WAS SUFFERING FROM SKIN CANCER. THIS IS A RARE CONDITION FOR BLACK PEOPLE SO I’M HAPPY BEING ME AND THANKFUL FOR ALL THE STRUGGLES OF MY PEOPLE BECAUSE IT MADE US STRONG.

    WE ARE CONTENT WITH OUR BODY FRAMES WHILE WHITE PEOPLE GO THROUGH HELL, SUFFERING TRYING TO STAY SKINNY BECAUSE THEY ARE CRITICIZED SO MUCH BY THEIR OWN KIND. THEY CRITICIZE THEMSELVES SO WHY SHOULD WE EXPECT DIFFERENT.

    THEY TALKED ABOUT JESUS CHRIST SO WHO ARE WE TO THINK WE ARE EXEMPT? NOBODY!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TSRUNWKFBDGQBU3TICJHRE4YNQ Good Sam

    WHY ARE WHITE PEOPLE SO UN-HAPPY THAT THEY INVEST SO MUCH TIME INTO HATING OTHER PEOPLE. COULD IT BE THEY ARE NOT HAPPY WITH THEMSELVES SO THEY TRY TO BRING OTHERS DOWN TO MAKE THEMSELVES FEEL AND LOOK BETTER.

    THE WHITE MEN WASN’T FEELING SO BAD ABOUT BLACK WOMEN WHEN THEY RAPED OUR ANCESTORS AND STARTED MIXING BLACK AND WHITE. NOW THEIR WHITE WOMEN CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF OUR BLACK MEN. THE WOMEN ENVY BLACK WOMEN SO MUCH BECAUSE THEIR MEN WOULD RATHER BE WITH US DURING SLAVERY THEN THEIR TIGHT BOOTY BOUGIE AZZEZ. SITTING UP ON THEIR PEDESTALS THINKING THEIR MESS DIDN’T STINK AND THEIR MEN WOULD RATHER TAKE SEX FROM A BLACK SLAVE THEN TO SLEEP WITH THEM FREELY OF NO FORCE WITH NO FIGHTS.

    HOW SOON WHITE MEN FORGET THAT THEY WERE TAKING SEX FROM BLACK WOMEN AND MIXING THE RACE. NOW THAT WE HAVE A CHOICE AND WE CHOOSE NOT BE BOTHERED WITH THEM WE ARE BAD AND BOTTOM OF THE PIT. THIS IS A CRAZY CONTRADICTION.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7OBNWFG4G643PQLYK54WPLVS7E HEMI1969

    Well i’m white and have very good genetics.I’m naturally muscular but do lift the weights.
    Who cares if the white race will be gone in 200 years,my concern is respecting all people and just getting along.Sadly I don’t see that happening

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