“Researchers from Loyola University Health System and other centers compared African American women in metropolitan Chicago with women in rural Nigeria. On average, the Chicago women weighed 184 pounds and the Nigerian women weighed 127 pounds. Researchers had expected to find that the slimmer Nigerian women would be more physically active. To their surprise, they found no significant difference between the two groups in the amount of calories burned during physical activity. ” [Link]
Of course, it’s not just exercise; as the study mentions, diet is also a huge factor. The Nigerians weren’t crushing 20-packs of McNuggets and super-sized Big Mac combos while tossing down 32-oz full-HFCS Cokes.
Berke Breathed said it in an old Bloom County strip: eat less and exercise more.
That model is gorgeous, except for the snarl. Yum.