Researcher exploring why obesity strikes so hard among Mexican-American boys
*What’s new about this study is that it doesn’t separate environment from behavior, as many other studies do. This one looks at the way young Latinos interact with their environment. VL
By Ron Hartung, Medical Press
Fifteen percent of non-Hispanic white children in the United States are obese, but among Mexican-American boys the figure is a much more troubling 23 percent. With funding from the National Institutes of Health, Angelina Sutin, a researcher in the Florida State University College of Medicine, will spend the next three years untangling the roots of that disparity.
“It was a great opportunity to look at the interrelations between all these risk factors for obesity in the context of adolescent development,” said Sutin, an assistant professor in the college’s Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine.
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