Too Fat to Get Pregnant? Obesity Impairs Fertility More in Black Women
Recent medical studies have demonstrated how detrimental fat is to internal organs, but it now appears that fat can be more detrimental to black women
than other groups, at least in so far as it relates to infertility.
The fat does damage by encroaching on internal organs, and inhibiting their function. Here’s a quick description of what happens to you internally when you’re overweight:
Health risks develop when your fat stores have exceeded certain thresholds. When people become overweight or obese, the body begins to run out of safe places to store fat and begins to store it viscerally, in and around the organs such as the heart and the liver. The fat then begins to act as an organ by secreting inflammatory substances that are harmful to the body.
This happens to everyone with internal fat, but a Black Women’s Health Study found that black women who were obese through the hips were less likely to become pregnant. Fecundity is a woman’s ability to reproduce, and the study found that, ” overall and central adiposity [fat] are associated with reduced fecundability in black women,” according to Lauren Wise, Sc.D., who spoke at the annual meeting of the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research.
The specific reasons why fat impacts fertility are inconclusive, according to the study:
Little is known about the determinants of fertility in black women, who are disproportionately affected by the obesity epidemic in the United States. Studies of central adiposity and fertility in whites have been inconclusive, with some suggesting that adiposity may interfere with estrogen metabolism, increase insulin resistance, and change the quality and pH of cervical mucus, said Dr. Wise of the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University.
What is clear, however, is that fat directly impacts the fertility of women, especially black women. So if you’re struggling with infertility, one of the main health factors which should be taken into account, based on this study at least, is your body mass index (BMI). It is probably best to start trying to get pregnant after you’ve already reached a healthy body weight in order to minimize infertility issues.
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It’s not about obesity by itself. There is a Root Problem and it is the Food Chain. No nutrition and lots of toxins. The toxins, genetically modifications, in the food actually cause infertility, increased miscarriages, and birth defects. The foods are genetically Modified to Kill You by depriving the body of what it needs to properly function, physically and mentally.
This is very sad but it is becoming the norm for the USA. The wealthiest but the sickest, most medicated and obese country in the world. People having crazy attacks, losing their minds. This is not a coincidence. What I am about to say may sound crazy but it is true.
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Education is key and African Americans have to take the initiative to start feeding our babies the right things from birth. Starting with breast feeding. I don’t understand for the life of me why a mother, who is healthy and perfectly capable, doesn’t breast feed her baby. Give your baby a chance by starting him or her out with the best nutrition that God has blessed us to produce.
Somewhere down the line we’ve gotten way off the mark. We think that being obese is being sexy which is dysfunctional. We are the leaders in every possible aliment related to eating unhealthy.
Black folk!!! Get off the plantation and stop eating pork. No excuses!!!! Eversince the slave masters introduced it, we can’t seem to leave it alone. It digusts me to see so much of it in the grocery stores that are only in certain areas. Those of you who claim to be Christian ignore the part in the Bible where it says not to eat this animal. The pig doesn’t sweat so all of the toxins that it eats stays in the meat.
They use to use pigs to get rid of dead bodies. They would make the pigs go without food for days, then they would remove the skull of the dead bodies, then give it to the pigs, and they would devour all of it…leaving nothing behinds. Why would you want to eat an animal that would eat a dead body….think about iit!!!
Stop being slaves to what you think tastes good and think about the fact that you only have one body and should treat it with respect.