Reading for Week 5

I found this article very disturbing. The fact that non-elderly women are prone to so many health problems due to the fact that they are women and additionally because of the environments in which they live is very problematic. Non elderly women are child-bearers, workers, caretakers and homemakers. Society is very dependent upon non-elderly women, and if they are at high risk of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and other diseases, it is scary to think what state these non-elderly women will be when they are elderly. What will the state of their children be? Poverty, lack of education, and environment cause many of these risk factors, but the way that race plays a role is also very interesting. It would be very curious to see the correlation between the high risk of non-elderly women based on their race versus their socio-economic status.