Posted on Wednesday, 6 June 2012

In a new study of U.S. preteen and teen girls, daily exercise was strongly linked to weight and obesity in white girls but not black girls. Although it’s still important to promote physical activity in all young people, according to the researchers that may not be enough to prevent black girls — who have a higher rate of obesity to begin with — from gaining weight.
Black girls don’t benefit as much from exercise: study | Reuters (via tballardbrown)

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