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Healthy diet and regular exercise are key to treating obesity. But the stress of everyday racism and sexism hinder Black women from adopting lifestyle changes necessary for weight loss.
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Rites of passage are important. They do not merely celebrate the transition to a new state – they actively create this new state in the eyes of society, an anthropologist writes.
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Doctoral Student, University of Connecticut
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Professor of English, University of Connecticut
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Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
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Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Connecticut
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Senior Research Scientist of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
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Associate Professor of Anthropology and Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut
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Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
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Assistant Professor of Community and Public Health Nutrition, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Connecticut
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PhD Student in Quantitative Psychology, University of Connecticut
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Associate Professor of Mathematics Education, University of Connecticut
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Adjunct Professor of Genocide Studies and Human Rights, University of Connecticut
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Educational Psychology at the United States Coast Guard Academy, University of Connecticut
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Professor Emerita of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
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Chief of Staff, Werth Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, University of Connecticut