I have not had the time to lock down the research on this as much as I would like, which is why I haven't really done much with this information but I am going to put this out there now

So let's talk about cortisol, disease, and the so-called "New World syndrome"

"New World Syndrome" is a term that white people invented to describe the rise in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases

in populations of immigrants and indigenous people in the West or so-called "New World"

The same diseases we also see attributed to the "obesity epidemic"

You know the old song and dance- type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and fatness

The theory is that causes of these diseases and how they manifest in populations are most likely not genetic due to how they show up in those populations

The populations in question being immigrants, indigenous people and people descended from enslaved Africans who were stolen from their homes.

Now, the current theory is that this happens because these people eat bad and don't know how to feed themselves and they switch to a "Western" diet and become fat and then get sick

So it's blaming people, essentially.

But that theory sucks because it doesn't explain anything

It's some blamey bullshit that doesn't explain _anything_

Like why it is that white people who eat the exact same kinds of foods DO NOT end up with the same rates of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.

My theory is that a life where you ate systematically denied basic resources and especially compassionate medical care-- (which is already going to cause it's own bad effects)

Combined with the effects of the stress hormone cortisol on the body, as a response to RACISM

Is what is ACTUALLY causing these disparities in health outcomes and death rates

And that we can see this happening RIGHT NOW

In real time, before our goddamn eyes.

We also see increases in metabolic diseases and RESPIRATORY DISEASES when people are exposed to pollution over a lifetime

And that's just more racism to add to the pile.

Fatphobia is just camouflage for RACISM

Because otherwise, we would have to admit that white people caused these disparities

And white people allow them to continue

And that people can't bootstrap their way out of it- we need REAL CHANGE

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Actually let me be even more clear here

It is not the (supposedly) higher rates of diabetes and heart disease and fatness in the black population that is causing more black people to die from covid19

It is the racist systems that cause those disparities that also causes these

I said supposedly because people on this website make a lot of claims that they don't bother to back up and I don't take anything on this topic at face value because "everyone knows" something

What everyone knows is frequently wrong

I just will not accept the unverified claim that marginalized people have higher rates of diseases caused/contributed to by a stress hormone

A stress hormone that is activated by the racism they are subjected to!

That those people are sick b/c they just don't know how to eat

Bull
Shit

BULLSHIT

If that's the case, why don't we see the same rates in populations that eat the same foods??

YOU KNOW THAT'S NOT IT, SCIENCE.

You know it and so do I