Why are black people so fast?

[Az]

Or do you suppose Jews just had a natural predisposition towards being good with money in the Middle Ages?

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Calc II
When referring to japanese, I dont think Their diets "improved" because we introduced western style of diets. How does feeding them fatty and fast foods improved the diet?

Meat made them taller.

[Zero]

Unless you conquer the world and force all white to become runners and all blacks to be runners as well, you wont be able to distinguish which race is superior when it comes to running. Because as of now, Becoming a track star is not the most popular thing among whites.

In addition, inner city kids do more sports. I think I can safely label that as a fact. Only thing there was for me and my friends to do was all meet up and play basketball, football and stick ball. Naturally, theyre gonna be really good at sports if theyve only been playing for all their life.. Have you even heard of Chucky Cheese thats located in the ghetto?

[Zero]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


Meat made them taller.

depends on what ur definition of improve is. If by improve as in heights sure... if by you mean how long till ur gonna have ur first heart attack, I would say no

[Imran Siddiqui]

The fact that Kenyan's might exell at long distance running (specifically Masai) only means that one particular subgroup of Black people is exceptionally good at this, not that Black people in general are better at it than white people in general.

This is what the threadjack was about, but not the main post, IIRC. The main post was about black sprinters. If you look at most sprinters, blacks are better, as a whole, than whites. Why is that? We aren't talking about a subgroup here.

After all, whites and blacks have equal oppertunities in sprint running (whites may have more oppertunities actually).

[Az]

Yes, but it allowed their bodies to fully develop. Saying that meat causes heart attacks, is like saying vegetarianism causes protein defficiency. both can be truth if a balanced diet is not held.

[Imran Siddiqui]

In addition, inner city kids do more sports. I think I can safely label that as a fact.

I'm not sure that IS a fact! People outside of the cities also do a lot of sports. Out in rural areas in, say, Indiana, there is nothing to do but play basketball, etc.

And I don't think running is necessarily an inner city sport (don't even think of making the cop running joke here ).

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
After all, whites and blacks have equal oppertunities in sprint running (whites may have more oppertunities actually).

You so missed the point. How many of the great Black atheletes come from the Black middle class? If you have the chance to excell in other areas besides sports, energy will be spent there, rather than on trying to be a super athelete.

[Imran Siddiqui]

How many of the great Black atheletes come from the Black middle class?

Of the sprinters? Many, actually. I don't think Carl Lewis was poor. And the current batch of black sprinters are from the middle class. Maurice Greene, the world's fastest man, came from a middle class family.

And btw, like it is always said in football, you can't teach speed. You either got it or you don't.

[Lord Merciless]

Originally posted by Calc II
When referring to japanese, I dont think Their diets "improved" because we introduced western style of diets. How does feeding them fatty and fast foods improved the diet?

McDonalds are better than famine. Do you know that all kinds of scary infectious disease are still ravaging undernourished people? I would rather be overweight than underfed.

[Gangerolf]

It's not genetic, it's not cultural.

Well this is what science says. If you don't like it, well too bad for you

Geneticist and exercise physiologist Claude Bouchard at Laval University in Quebec City, has run numerous experiments comparing two populations, French-Canadian and West African students. Using long needles inserted into the thighs of test subjects, Bouchard's team extracted tiny sections of fibers, which look to the naked eye like pieces of raw meat. They were chemically treated to reveal metabolic differences, put on a glass slide, and slipped under a high-power microscope, where they appeared as a collage of tiny red and white crocodile scales. The West Africans, by a ratio of approximately two to one, had more of the larger fast-twitch fibers. The researchers concluded that the force generating capacity of type-II muscle fibers at high velocity, the speed and tempo of movements, and the capacity of an individual to adapt to exercise training are all genetically influenced.

Timothy Noakes, long-time director of the Sport Science Center at the University of Cape Town Medical School, and author of many scholarly books, including Lore of Running, has observed that black South Africans, who share much of their genetic ancestry with East Africans, sweep more than 90 percent of the top places in endurance races held in his country, despite the fact that blacks represent no more than one-quarter of the active running population. Noakes has attempted to figure out why in his laboratory. In a treadmill study, black marathoners consistently bested whites. Although white runners matched or exceeded the black runners at distances up to 5,000 meters, blacks were "clearly superior at distances greater than 5km." The fine print in the data was particularly revealing. There was a dramatic difference in the ability of the blacks to run at a higher maximum oxygen capacity. In the case of the marathoners, blacks performed at 89 percent of the maximum oxygen capacity, while whites lagged by nearly 10 percent. The muscles of the black athletes also showed far fewer signs of fatigue as measured by lactic acid.

Although there is no one genetically consistent African population, the environment appears to have resulted in some characteristics shared across populations. Bouchard is persuaded that a large fraction of both West and East African blacks enjoy biological advantages for power or sprint events and endurance activities, respectively. "West Africans have more of the key anaerobic enzymes in their skeletal muscle, those enzymes being responsible for regenerating the energy in the muscle cell through anaerobic pathways," wrote Bouchard. We are talking here about a two-fold difference between a significant fraction of blacks from West Africa and whites from North America. East Africans, on the other hand, seem to have more ability to mobilize the energy stored in adipose tissue in other body depots and to use that energy for prolonged periods of exercise. The key point is that these biological characteristics are not unique to either West or East African blacks. These characteristics are seen in all populations, including whites. However, based on the limited number of studies available, there seems to be more African Blacks with such characteristics than there are in other populations.

http://run-down.com/guests/je_black_athletes_p2.php

[Zero]

Originally posted by Lord Merciless


McDonalds are better than famine. Do you know that all kinds of scary infectious disease are still ravaging undernourished people? I would rather be overweight than underfed.

Famine is not a style of a diet. Its something ur forced to do.

[Q Classic]

1. isn't it sydney?
2. didn't some news person lose his job over making this same observation after being tarred and feathered for being "racist"?

[Zero]

The key point is that these biological characteristics are not unique to either West or East African blacks. These characteristics are seen in all populations, including whites. However, based on the limited number of studies available, there seems to be more African Blacks with such characteristics than there are in other populations.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Tingkai


Berzerker: You claimed that the environment affected the evolution of genes.
"Blacks have traditionally lived in hotter climes so the body reacts over 10's of millennia and becomes lankier/taller to increase evaporation to regulate body temps."

The Bushmen and Pgymies have lived in hot climes for thousands of years and yet are not tall. According to your theory, they should be giants.

You claim that "People who live in colder areas or have "recently migrated from colder areas have bulkier/shorter bodies to conserve heat."

But, Northern Europeans are generally taller than people from tropical Southeast Asia.

Your theory doesn't hold water.

You are losing the big picture. Something causes different racial groupings to have different genetic statures. The environmental effect is not as simple as hot/cold although that is part of it. Terrain also has an effect. This is just like what you see with animals where different regions produce populations with different sizes (in the genes). I mean seriously, why do you think Bushmen are small if not as an evolutionary adaption? Do you think it is just chance? That God made them that way?