Growing the Food Justice Movement. With one in eight Americans on food stamps and one in three categorized as obese, the importance of debunking the myth that food sustainability is only important to the left-leaning affluent is more crucial than ever. Lest we get complacent as a result of the Journal of the American Medical Association ’s recent report that obesity rates have plateaued , let’s remember that: A full third of Americans are still considered obese. Two out of three of us are either overweight or obese, based on Body Mass Index (BMI) calculations, an imperfect but standardized ratio of weight divided by height. As we’ve come to expect from such studies, “non-hispanic blacks” had the highest obesity rates, followed by “all hispanics.” “Non-hispanic white” study subjects had the lowest rates.
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