Beautiful but deadly: Latinos’ curves put them at risk

By Cindy Y. Rodriguez, CNN

Elma Dieppa wonders if her cousin Helen Casillas would still be alive today if she had been more aware of how her weight contributed to her diabetes.

In a 2010 study, Abbey Berenson and her colleagues surveyed 1,076 Hispanic women who went to public health clinics in Texas about their weight. The researchers found about 25% of the overweight Hispanic women perceived their weight as “normal,” while only 15% of non-Latino white women did.

“This is the problem within the Hispanic community,” Dieppa wrote on the blog. “We love our curves, but the line between beautiful and deadly curves is blurred.”

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[Photo by emilio labrador]

 

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