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According to a new survey, Blacks have a higher obesity rate than any other ethnic or racial group.

The study is published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, taken by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data that was collected to conduct this study was done by using phone surveys that took place between 2006 and 2008. In this three-year period the final results calculated out that 24 percent of whites were obese, 29 percent of Hispanics are obese, and 36 percent of blacks are obese.

The researches do admit that this study can be underestimated since people can lie about their height and weight over the phone.
The states that were picked to survey were Oregon, Ohio, Mississippi, Maine and Alabama.

The reasoning for the higher rate in blacks, experts believe is that those people live in lower income communities that has more poverty and they don’t have easy access to medical care, healthier food, and exercise facilities.

It is considered that any one that has 30 or more body mass index is obese. Body mass index is calculated out by an estimate of body fat and the person’s height and weight.

More research will need to be done in order to prove the fact of blacks holding the weight scale of obesity.