HUS1353 Public Health Issues Topic Submission

High Rate of Obesity among African-American Women Name Institution Course Code and Title Instructor Date Obesity is the excessive fat accumulation in the human body, a health risk. Some of the diseases that are caused by obesity include hypertension, stroke, and type 2 diabetes. Obesity has been on an increasing trend, with research showing obesity has doubled since 1980 (Laurence, 2024). By the year 2018, research showed that four out of five African-American women were overweight or obese, which shows that obesity is most prevalent among the African American women (Laurence, 2024). Obesity is important to public health since it poses a threat to healthy living and is one of the causes of untimely death. According to Boggs et al. (2012), the risk of death for any cause among black women is high among those who have a BMI above 25. Obesity is quite a considerable problem among African-American women, as research has associa...