Studies Show High Obesity Rates Among Black Children [Afro.com]

Samantha Sangenito 9/11/174:00 AM

September opens with both an annual observation of National Childhood Obesity Month, as well as an urgent call by healthcare professionals across the nation to reduce the increase of overweight and obese Black children – which are at critically high numbers.

Some data, including that offered by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Trust of America’s Health, cite both an overall increase in overweight and obesity rates among Black children and faster and earlier rates of severe weight increases.

[For more of this story, written by Shantella Y. Sherman, go to http://afro.com/studies-show-h...mong-black-children/]

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