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The children of Oregon are doing something good. According to data released Thursday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, only 11.2% of Oregon youth aged 10 to 17 are obese, making us the seventh lowest rate of obesity in the young people of the country.
It's not exactly sunny, though. According to data collected by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, there are racial and ethnic disparities in childhood obesity rates.
"In the whole country," says the press release sent by the foundations, "the youth rate of black youth was almost double (22.5%) (12.5%) .The rate for young Hispanics Asian young people have the lowest rate, just 6.4%. "
Adults are not up to the children of Oregon. The adult obesity rate in Oregon is 29.4%, ranking us 31st in the United States.
This rate is up 19.9% in 2000 and 11.2% in 1990.
It should be noted that these results were determined using the BMI scale, often referred to as erroneous metrics for health.
– Lizzy Acker
503-221-8052
[email protected], @lizzzyacker
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