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To: epicure who wrote (51118)	3/1/2008 9:55:25 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 544045

<<<I'm afraid I can't help you any more than I already have. Maybe I don't understand what you are saying...... Blackness certainly has "meaning" in terms of biology and genetics with regard to all sorts of health issues (I'm assuming you know that different populations of people respond differently to different drugs), different rates of disease, different vitamin uptake rates, and metabolisms. Being "black" or "Asian" or any other ethnic group, has "meaning" wrt these things caused by genetics. Being black has meaning in terms of biology. Your health risks are different than the risks for a caucasian person. Does that mean ALL black people are at risk for (to take one example) vitamin D deficiency in cold climates? No- but it's a general risk factor related to skin color.>>> Thanks for your help. All fat people have risk factors that are different than risks for thin people. So are fat people a different race? What I am saying is that there is no such thing as a black race, or asian, or caucasion just as there is no such thing as a fat race. Black is skin color. Asian I assume relates to geography. Caucasion I guess would relate to some aggregate of physical features. What are these terms?