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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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MCPS is the one who said Hispanic students have high drop rate, more students on FARM, less students pass state test.  If you don't like to hear the FACTS, blame MCPS!  [/quote]

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