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Race and Obesity Treatment March 15, 2011 Both obesity and Type
2 diabetes have reached striking levels in the United States.
This is true among most racial and ethic groups, but
particularly among African-Americans. According to the American
Diabetes Association, African-Americans are 1.8 times as likely
to have diabetes as non-Hispanic whites. They are also 1.5 times
as likely to be obese, according to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC). Because of these large
disparities, research has explored the scope of the African-
American “diabesity” epidemic from many different angles —
including how race affects what treatments, if any, someone
receives for obesity. In a study published earlier this year in
the journal Obesity, researchers sought to find out whether
rates of obesity-related counseling were greater among obese
black people with black doctors than among those with white
doctors. There could be many possible reasons for low