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Cress Welsing: The Definition of Racism White Supremacy

Dr. Blynd: The Definition of Racism

Anon: What is Racism/White Supremacy?

Dr. Bobby Wright: The Psychopathic Racial Personality

The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy)

What is the First Step in Counter Racism?

Genocide: a system of white survival

The Creation of the Negro

The Mysteries of Melanin

'Racism is a behavioral system for survival'

Fear of annihilation drives white racism

Dr. Blynd: The Definition of Caucasian

Where are all the Black Jurors? 

The War Against Black Males: Black on Black Violence Caused by White Supremacy/Racism

Brazen Police Officers and the Forfeiture of Freedom

White Domination, Black Criminality

Fear of a Colored Planet Fuels Racism: Global White Population Shrinking, Less than 10%

Race is Not Real but Racism is

The True Size of Africa

What is a Nigger? 

MLK and Imaginary Freedom: Chains, Plantations, Segregation, No Longer Necessary ['Our Condition is Getting Worse']

Chomsky on "Reserving the Right to Bomb Niggers." 

A Goal of the Media is to Make White Dominance and Control Over Everything Seem Natural

"TV is reversing the evolution of the human brain." Propaganda: How You Are Being Mind Controlled And Don't Know It.

Spike Lee's Mike Tyson and Don King

"Zapsters" - Keeping what real? "Non-white People are Actors. The Most Unrealistic People on the Planet"

Black Power in a White Supremacy System

Neely Fuller Jr.: "If you don't understand racism/white supremacy, everything else that you think you understand will only confuse you"

The Image and the Christian Concept of God as a White Man

'In order for this system to work, We have to feel most free and independent when we are most enslaved, in fact we have to take our enslavement as the ultimate sign of freedom'

Why do White Americans need to criminalize significant segments of the African American population?

Who Told You that you were Black or Latino or Hispanic or Asian? White People Did

Malcolm X: "We Have a Common Enemy"

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Thursday
Jan062005

Fast Food Linked to Obesity, Insulin Problems

ronaldmcdonald
People who eat fast food frequently are more likely to gain weight and develop insulin resistance, and such eating habits may increase the risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes, new research claims. "These findings suggest that frequent fast food consumption cannot be part of a healthful diet, despite claims to the contrary by the food industry," said senior study author Dr. David Ludwig, director of the obesity program at Children's Hospital Boston. This is the first long-term investigation to show the link between fast food, weight gain and insulin resistance; it appears in the Jan. 1 issue of the The Lancet. Ludwig and his colleagues produced an alarming sequence of statistics to show the toll obesity is taking in the United States. About 30 percent of Americans are overweight or obese, compared to only 23 percent during the period 1988 to 1994. The prevalence of overweight rose by 50 percent in children and adolescents during the past decade, to about 15 percent of all people in that age segment. And obesity is responsible for 300,000 deaths and $100 billion in annual health-care costs, according to the researchers. The repercussions of obesity and type 2 diabetes continue far and wide. A new study by UCLA researchers found that advanced heart failure patients with diabetes who are treated with insulin have a death rate four times higher than similar patients treated with oral medications. Between 25 percent and 44 percent of heart failure patients also have diabetes, according to the study, which appears in the January issue of the American Heart Journal. [more] and [more]