Some Minority Groups Hit Hard by Childhood Obesity

“The study, to be published in the September issue of Pediatrics, finds that black, Hispanic and American Indian girls have two to three times higher odds of having a high body-mass index (BMI) compared to white girls. What's more, although rates of obesity peaked for Hispanic girls in 2005, they have kept on rising for American Indian and black girls. ‘What was encouraging was that we saw some decline in obesity, [but] we saw an increase in the racial disparities. So...

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