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...Obama are motivated by racism [Oct. 20]. Obviously race influences some voters, but what about blacks? Certainly some African Americans will vote for Obama because he is black. How many of these voters will cancel out white voters who vote for the wrong reasons? James C. Perley, Little Sioux, Iowa...
...native-American baby born into the Oglala Sioux tribe, living on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. There are a lot of things that are going to make life a challenge for you, but one of the most perilous will be your weight. Chances are very good that your parents already have a weight problem; obesity is rampant in the 30,000-member community, and half the residents over the age of 40 have Type 2 diabetes. Their genes--and yours, of course--are part of the problem: researchers theorize that Native Americans have a higher than average tendency...
Even without this so-called thrifty gene, you'd face an uphill battle to stay trim. Like many Americans in rural areas, the poorer Oglala Sioux have far less access to fresh fruits and vegetables than those in more connected settlements. This means you're likely to be filling up on high-calorie, processed foods, especially since fatty foods are cheaper than healthy ones, and your family--like more than half the families on the reservation--is probably poor. What's more, the calories you consume stick around, since you're not doing much to burn them off. Your school...
...with average income well below the poverty line, even Pine Ridge families who have access to the good stuff can't afford to buy it. "When you have families on a limited income, it gets difficult to make that decision to eat well," says Bonnie Holy Rock, an Oglala Sioux from Pine Ridge. Holy Rock is the field-site coordinator for Bright Start, a University of Minnesota--sponsored program to reduce child obesity and diabetes on Pine Ridge. "What do you have to eliminate to buy fresh fruit and vegetables?" she asks...
...vegetables or take a jog now and then, your weight problems are your own. But if that philosophy seems harsh when we're dealing with adults--not to mention blind to the enormous health-care costs that will burden the nation--it's positively heartless toward children. An Oglala Sioux on the reservation, a first-generation Hispanic American in L.A., a poor white kid in the hills of West Virginia--no one asks to be born into an environment where obesity seems to be the default fate. "This is probably the most important public-health problem facing the country today...