Feds Spending $143,000 To Convince Fat Mexican Women To Talk To Each Other
http://downtrend.com/robertgehl/feds-spending-143000-to-convince-fat-mexican-women-to-talk-to-each-otherApril 8, 2016| by Robert Gehl
Because Mexican women are so fat, the feds are spending your tax dollars to get them to talk about it.
That’s the nuts-and-bolts of a grant from the National Institute of Health. They’re spending $143,000 on what they call “intervention” to get Mexican-American women and their daughters to talk with each other about obesity.
Apparently, Mexican women are, um, larger than other groups of people and talking about it will … just shave those pounds off.
They call it “communication competency,” and they think this “intervention” can help protect them from all the diseases that go along with obesity, like heart disease. From The Washington Free Beacon:
“Given the relationship between obesity and cardiovascular disease, it is imperative that intervention studies address weight management among Mexican-American women, a group disproportionately affected by obesity,” according to the grant for the study, which began in January. “A dyad-level intervention partnering mothers and their adult daughters may be a culturally salient and effective approach to improve diet and physical activity.”
“Because communication among family members can impact health behaviors, promoting communication that facilitates healthy eating and physical activity could help build an interpersonal environment that supports weight management among mothers and daughters,” the grant continues. “An intervention that addresses communication competency is especially warranted for Latino families as dissonance in acculturation between parent and child can interfere with effective communication and increase conflict.”
The feds are big believers in using “communication techniques” to get fat people to stop eating so damn much. They spent $400,000 to text Latino men, telling them to exercise, $500,000 to train doctors how to talk to fat kids and almost $78,000 to study how parents talk to fat kids about food.
Here is a sample dialogue from the grant (No.):
Mija! You’re getting so fat!
Aw, mama, lay off! You’re fat too!
You’re right! Let’s go eat some frijoles!
There was no mention in the “grant” about convincing fat, Mexican women to simply put down the big burrito.
