African Americans Living with Mental Illness Have Higher Risk for Other Illnesses
UrbanMecca
In 2006, African American men were 30% more likely to die from heart disease, as compared to non-Hispanic white men. African American women are 1.7 times as ...

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Huge Health Disparities Among Asian-Americans
RedOrbit
Obesity is as another health risk facing Native Hawaiians. Compared to whites in the state, Native Hawaiians are twice as likely to be obese (44.1 percent ...

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USDA launches ood Environment Atlas
Waukegan News Sun
More than 712000 people live in Lake County, with 66.7 percent of them white, 19.6 percent Hispanic, 6.4 percent black, 5.7 percent Asian and .2 percent ...

S.A. receives $15.6 million to fight childhood obesity
San Antonio Express
That's an ongoing struggle in San Antonio, where a recent study showed 30 percent of children age 8 to 10 are obese, with Hispanic children suffering higher ...

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Inventorspot
10 Mid-March Medical News Shorts For Those Who Like Them Brief
Inventorspot
The prevalence of extreme obesity was highest among Hispanic boys and black girls. Age peaks occurred at 10 years old in boys and at 12 and 18 for girls. ...

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Child Obesity on the Rise
WIFR
Just more than eleven-percent of Hispanic boys fell into the same category. Doctors say kids with weight problems now will experience even more health ...

S.A. gets $15.6M grant to fight child obesity
San Antonio Express
That's an ongoing struggle in San Antonio, where a recent study showed 30 percent of children age 8 to 10 are obese, with Hispanic children suffering higher ...
Obama wants to help San Antonians get fitBizjournals.com
Federal $$ about to change the shape of SAKENS 5 TV

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Death + Taxes Magazine
Soda Tax Will Tear Us Apart
Death + Taxes Magazine
That's precisely the reason the National Hispanic Medical Association, among other Latino groups, joined up with the beverage industry last year. ...

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New York Daily News
Obesity in US kids growing at alarming rate
The Money Times
On the race part, extreme obesity was more prevalent in Hispanic boys and in black girls, and the least obese were Asian Pacific Islanders and the white ...
More children are extremely obeseLos Angeles Times (blog)
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Sampler: Bay Area Home Prices Rise and San Francisco Joins Fight Against Prop. 16
New York Times (blog)
Hispanic teenage boys and African-American girls are most at risk, according to the Kaiser Permanente study of patients in Southern California and published ...

CBC.ca
Childhood Obesity, Sugar & Liver
myfoxny.com
Black teenage girls and Hispanic teenage boys seem to be most at risk. The researchers warn that this type of weight problem may continue into adulthood and ...
Sweetened drinks may aggravate liver diseaseCBC.ca

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Fisher: Disturbing news on childhood obesity
San Jose Mercury News
The most serious problems are among Hispanic teenage boys and African-American teenage girls, more than 11 percent of whom are extremely obese, ...

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More US kids 'extremely obese': study
Ninemsn
With the results showing a rate of extreme obesity of around 12 per cent in some groups, notably black teen girls and Hispanic teen boys, the authors warned ...

SAMAA TV
More Kids Now Extremely Obese
U.S. News & World Report
Obesity peaked at age 10 for boys and age 12 for girls. The most extremely obese were black teenage girls and Hispanic boys. The least extremely obese were ...
More children are extremely obeseLos Angeles Times (blog)
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SAMAA TV
US child obesity problem worse than thought
Reuters
They found the heaviest children were black teenage girls and Hispanic teenage boys. Asian-Pacific Islanders and white children had the lowest percentage of ...
More children are extremely obeseLos Angeles Times (blog)
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More Kids Now Extremely Obese
Palm Beach Post
Obesity peaked at age 10 for boys and age 12 for girls. The most extremely obese were black teenage girls and Hispanic boys. The least extremely obese were ...

Extreme obesity affecting more children at younger ages
PhysOrg.com
Extreme obesity is affecting more children at younger ages, with 12 percent of black teenage girls, 11.2 percent of Hispanic teenage boys, 7.3 percent of ...

New York Daily News
More children are extremely obese
Los Angeles Times (blog)
The survey found that 12% of black teenage girls and 11.2% of Hispanic teenage boys had extreme obesity. The authors of the study, from Kaiser Permanente, ...
More Kids Now Extremely ObeseBusinessWeek
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New Studies Show Huge Health Disparities Among Asian American, Native Hawaiian ...
U.S. Asian Wire (press release)
Obesity is as another health risk facing Native Hawaiians. Compared to whites in the state, Native Hawaiians are twice as likely to be obese (44.1 percent ...

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'Hearts and Minds' Promotes Wellness; African Americans Living with Mental ...
PR Newswire (press release)
In 2006, African American men were 30% more likely to die from heart disease, as compared to non-Hispanic white men. African American women are 1.7 times as ...

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