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Algorem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 08:34 AM Original message |
Black women in the U.S. appear to be shrinking |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 08:37 AM Response to Original message |
1. Lack of access to healthy diets may have some influence. |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 09:05 AM Response to Original message |
2. I don't understand that part about white men in the antebellum South |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 09:14 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Maybe that referred |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 10:30 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. :) |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 06:16 PM Response to Reply #2 |
17. I agree, that date isn't quite correct. |
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byeya (209 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 11:00 AM Response to Original message |
5. Womans' height |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 11:15 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. kick - health and pollution |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
6. bs out of the tribune. |
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DRoseDARs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 11:34 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Er, did you even read the article? |
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Tutankhamun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 11:31 AM Response to Original message |
8. Possibly flawed study design. |
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jkappy (214 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 11:50 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. all good points!! |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 01:39 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Of all the theories put forth so far, that is the most likely, IMHO. |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 05:37 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. Bingo. If they publish one or two other INDEPENDENT studies with similar findings, I might buy it. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 09:19 PM Response to Reply #8 |
20. asians & hispanics don't have "short" genes. |
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Celeborn Skywalker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-27-08 07:27 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Not specifically, |
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fed_up_mother (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-27-08 07:20 PM Response to Reply #8 |
21. My thinking. Also, how may black women in the study weren't descendants of slaves |
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Tanuki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
10. Low birth weight and prematurity are more common in the African American population |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
12. Since this is women only, there is also the possibility ... |
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biopowertoday (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 05:33 PM Response to Original message |
14. upper-income black women are growing taller it says: |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 05:41 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. This is bogus. We know nothing about the sampling populations. If the samples are not large |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 06:18 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Well, let's not immediately assume that it's bogus. |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 06:25 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. i believe it to because of the cost/access to fresh dairy |
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wickerwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-27-08 07:21 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Yep, it's super-obvious if you go to China |
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