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Blame HHS - https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/omh/browse.aspx?lvl=4&lvlid=70

their statistics

[quote]Obesity and Hispanic Americans
Among Mexican American women, 77 percent are overweight or obese, as compared to only 64 percent of the non-Hispanic White women.
In 2015, Hispanic Americans were 1.2 times as likely to be obese than non-Hispanic whites.
From 2011-2014 Hispanic children were 1.8 times more likely to be overweight as non- Hispanic white children.
From 2015, Hispanic women were 30% more likely to be overweight, as compared to non-Hispanic whites.[/quote]

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No, let's talk about math.

For example, [i]"Among Mexican American women, 77 percent are overweight or obese, as compared to only 64 percent of the non-Hispanic White women."[/i] What does this mean? It means that roughly two-thirds of non-Hispanic white women and roughly three-quarters of Mexican-American women are overweight or obese. In other words, about 20% more likely.

For your other data, the comparison doesn't tell us anything without knowing the actual rates. That's a common error in citing statistics. For example, eating avocados makes you 30% more likely to develop [terrible disease]! (I just made that up.) This is useful information without knowing how common [terrible disease] is. 30% more likely than a common disease means something, 30% more likely than a very rare disease means basically nothing.

And then, of course, there's your assumption that Hispanic-American people get a lot of free food.

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