Race Differences in Bone Density
by Ryan Cavallius
DESPITE THE CLAIMS of egalitarian propagandists over the past century or so that human racial differences are ‘only skin deep,’ it is a well-established fact that the physiological differences which distinguish one race of man from another include far more than just those which can be observed by the untrained eye. An important example of these differences is bone mass density. The egalitarians have been working night and day to hold the line that we are all equal. Yet equal means the same, and a fairly large amount of medical and scientific research has shown that, far from being the same, the races of man differ in the density (and even sometimes the size and shape) of their bones. More specifically, East Asians tend to have low bone mass density compared to Europeans, while the latter in turn have lower bone density than Negroes. And while even the mere mention of these facts is, to say the least, unpopular in today’s ‘politically correct’ climate, the facts themselves conform to medical doctors’ professional knowledge.
According to an article on the American Bone Health Web site, Blacks have a lower risk of fracturing their bones than Whites and other races because Negro bones are not only larger, but denser. The article, “Fracture Risk in African Americans,” attributes these disparities entirely to genetics and even suggests that differences in calcium regulation play a role. For support, it cites eighteen separate medical and scientific studies revolving around the specific subject of group differences in the structure and composition of the bones. Those studies show that in addition to having lower fracture rates than other races, Blacks also have much lower rates of osteoporosis. With regard to the long bones of the arms and legs, the article states, “African Americans have long bones that are wider in the middle than other ethnic groups — and that gives the bones considerable more strength to resist breaking. At the ends of the long bones, the bone network structure is thicker and more connected — again more strength to resist breaking.”1
Research on Asian bone mass density provides further proof of racial differences. Besides the studies which prove a measurable difference in the relative size of White and Asian bones,2 Dvornyk et al. found that Whites have denser bones than Chinese regardless of sex.3 Then there was the “Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation,” which examined White, Black, Japanese, and Chinese women living in the United States. Here Black women had the highest, and Asian women the lowest, levels of bone density, with Whites falling somewhere in the middle.4 It has also been shown that Asian women have a higher risk than White and Black women for osteoporosis, but, interestingly, their fracture risk is lower than that of Whites and higher than that of Blacks. This suggests that the races differ not just in the size and density of their bones, but also in the relationship between their bone mass density and fracture rates.5 If this is true, it could be a very important discovery.
Perusing the literature, I found dozens of studies on race differences in bone structure and density going back generations. This preoccupation in the medical industry with racial differences provides a stark contrast to the propaganda we see in the mainstream news and entertainment media, which consistently gives the impression that biological race either doesn’t exist at all or, if it does, is meaningless. Of course, some of the studies I came across did attempt to hedge their findings by minimizing the significance of racial differences, but readers with keen eyes can easily see beyond that to the reality of the findings.
Reckoning with the fact that the human races differ in the average structure and density of their bones is imperative not only for the progress of medical science, but for the advancement of the study of man as a whole. If the American Bone Health article cited above is correct and Blacks are unique in the way their bodies regulate calcium, it is a fact of extraordinary relevance to the study of human history, for such a deep-rooted difference almost certainly points toward an evolutionary divergence which is anything but recent. More immediately, knowledge of these differences can help us better understand racial disparities in certain performance activities of everyday life. David Duke believes that bone mass differences contribute to less buoyancy in the water for Blacks, hence their struggle to compete with Whites in swimming.6 This is an entirely plausible, if as yet unverified, hypothesis. Either way, we know that these racial differences in bone density are real and measurable, and that they deal another crippling blow to the notion of human racial equality.
NOTES
1. American Bone Health, “Fracture Risk in African Americans,” December 7, 2016, https://americanbonehealth.org/races-ethnicities/fracture-risk-in-african-americans/. Accessed October 16th, 2022.
2. E. g., Yuan-Yuan Zhang, Peng-Yuan Liu, Yan Lu, K. Michael Davies, Volodymyr Dvornyk, Robert R. Recker, and Hong-Wen Deng, “Race and sex differences and contribution of height: a study on bone size in healthy Caucasians and Chinese,” American Journal of Human Biology, Sept.-Oct. 2005;17(5):568-75. Archived at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajhb.20427. Accessed October 16th, 2022.
3. Volodymyr Dvornyk, Peng-yuan Liu, Ji-rong Long, Yuan-yuan Zhang, Shu-feng Lei, Robert R. Recker, and Hong-wen Deng, “Contribution of genotype and ethnicity to bone mineral density variation in Caucasians and Chinese: a test for five candidate genes for bone mass,” Chinese Medical Journal, August 2005;118(15):1235-44. Archived at https://mednexus.org/doi/epdf/10.5555/cmj.0366-6999.118.15.p1235.01. Accessed October 16th, 2022.
4. Joel S. Finkelstein, Mei-Ling T. Lee, MaryFran Sowers, Bruce Ettinger, Robert M. Neer, Jennifer L. Kelsey, Jane A. Cauley, Mei-Hua Huang, and Gail A. Greendale, “Ethnic variation in bone density in premenopausal and early perimenopausal women: effects of anthropometric and lifestyle factors,” Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2002;87:3057-3067. Archived at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11271643. Accessed October 16th, 2022.
5. William D. Leslie, “Ethnic differences in bone mass – clinical implications,” Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, December 2012;97:4329-4340. Archived at https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/97/12/4329/2536344?login=false. Accessed October 16th, 2022.
6. My Awakening: A Path to Racial Understanding (Mandeville, LA: Free Speech Press, 2008), 78.
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Blacks have greater bone density because of adaptation to Tropical environment where the Sun provides Vit D, the contrast is true in Races who adapted to Ice , long winter environment
I don’t recall hearing about that one. Thanks.
Here’s another little discussed fact: Black athletes heal more quickly from major ligament and tendon tears. For example, black football players can suffer a rupture of the Achilles tendon and be back on the playing field within six months or so, while the same injury is typically a career ender for for white athletes. Blacks also heal much more quickly from knee ligament tears. An ACL tear means a white athlete will be out for a year. A black athlete may return before the season ends. Also, blacks have thicker ligaments and tendons and are less prone to tears and ruptures.
About buoyancy, as I learned in a scuba diving class, regardless of bone density, I learned that fat people are more buoyant. There was a fat White guy in our class, and he to put more weights to his dive belt because of his natural buoyancy.
More facts to debunk the “there’s only one race, the human race “, and “we all bleed the same color “…so do cats and dogs, but we often place importance on their different breeds. Next thing you know, archeologists and anthropologists will be canceled as racist or even “hate crime “ for digging up and identifying the truth. Even in these politically correct times, a chinaman told me these very things in the article, as he was in charge at the gym and I had a bone scan that showed osteoporosis, so I asked him which exercises were safe and which ones best to avoid if one has osteoporosis. He told me that his race is at risk due to having smaller frames , and that mine is at risk… Read more »
Forensic Scientists ID murder victims this way for court cases.
Hmmm….