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Overweight and Obesity Among African-American Youths
While childhood obesity rates are considerably higher than they were a generation ago among the general population, youths from certain racial and ethnic communities have been disproportionately affected. Sharply higher rates of overweight and obesity have occurred among African-American, Latino, American Indian and Alaska Native children and adolescents.
A series of fact sheets by Leadership for Healthy Communities, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, highlight some of the statistics and studies that help explain this increased prevalence.