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Family Income Reduces Risk of Obesity for White but Not Black Children 🧵
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

"Childhood obesity is a major consequence of poverty."

"Racial disparity in obesity is one of the main contributors to racial disparities in cardio-metabolic
disease as well as mortality."

"Black children’s risk of obesity was not dependent on family income. This pattern was totally different from White children in whom income had a protective effect against obesity."

the findings do not suggest that Blacks are unable to efficiently use
their available SES resources and turn them to tangible health outcomes, as that would be victim
blaming. Instead, it is the U.S. social structure, segregation, and structural racism to be blamed for
these...

..diminished returns."

"Although we were unable to control for neighborhood segregation, the role of higher level factors such as density of fast food restaurants, food deserts, and availability of fresh food products on health of Whites and Blacks are well known."

"In the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), income had a protective effect against sustained high BMI among White and Black women, but not for White and Black men."

"In the same study, education had a protective effect against high
BMI, physical inactivity, and insomnia for White men, White women, and Black women but not Black men."