Curbing the Obesity Epidemic: Understanding Latinos’ Challenges to Healthy Eating in the United States (original) (raw)

jfn, 2018

Abstract

J Food Nutr 2014 | Vol 1: e205 “Globesity” is the term that perhaps best represents the growing obesity trend affecting about five hundred million people worldwide [1]. This phenomenon is most prevalent among the poor and disadvantaged, for whom high obesity rates go hand in hand with cardiovascular disease, diabetes and even cancer. This editorial hopes to shed light on the growing rates of obesity among Latinos (or Hispanics) in the United States (US). To that end, I aim to underscore the close-knit relationship between structural and cultural determinants of health that, together, impinge on the growing morbidity and mortality rates associated with Latinos’ overweight and obesity patterns in the US.

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