A study from researchers at the University of Alabama finds that among obese women, "black women claim to have a higher quality of life than white women of the same weight," reports the Tri-State Defender. Overall, obese women said they were less satisfied than non-obese women with the "weight-related quality of their lives," but black obese women reported a higher quality of life than white obese women, perhaps because of social norms, according to the researchers. Also, black obese women reported being more concerned with physical limitations than psychological limitations.

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