A study conducted by UCSF is about to be released highlighting some strong gains in the fight against childhood obesity.  Most of the children across the state of California benefiting from numerous campaigns striving to improve the nutrition of our youth.  That’s the good news.  This is fantastic as school lunch improvements and the importance of youth health is starting to catch.  The bad news is that a few racial groups are not only failing to plateau, but instead they’re getting increasingly obese.

Like many public information campaigns, this one is not reaching the people who need it the most.  For example 4.6 percent of black girls and 4.9 percent of American Indian girls are severely obese while only 1% of Asian and white girls fall in the same category.  This sucks.  Lets work on it.

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