What is it about racism that makes you want to eat?

Posted by Joy M at 3/4/2010 12:01 PM
Categories: Health,Diet and Nutrition,Mental Health
Tags: Health
Makani Themba-Nixon, Executive Director, The Praxis Project is one of a panel of women discussing the social determinants of health. I completely understood her when she said, “What is it about racism that makes you want to eat?”  We are fighting stress.  We don't talk much about the impact of stress in how we remain healthy and we certainly don't talk about the stress that the racism we are facing impacts us on an almost daily basis.  Despite the fact that many in the post-Obama America want to claim that racism is gone, we know that it is not true and we need to deal with it.

Class, income, geography and access to exercise are all factors impacting the health.  Disproportionally, people of color are negatively impacted.  Gina Eleane Wood, Deputy Director, Health Policy Institute, Joint Center for Economic and Political Studies notes that “poor people live shortly lives and are more ill.”

 

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