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>Hispanic Health Paradox where poor and likely obese Hispanic Americans have better health and life expectancy than the general population. Anecdotally, Hispan
by aphextron 10y ago
>Hispanic Health Paradox where poor and likely obese Hispanic Americans have better health and life expectancy than the general population.
Anecdotally, Hispanic people tend to eat far more fruits and vegetables than the average American, so this wouldn't surprise me. Although I think the conclusions you draw beyond that are a bit of a stretch.
- m0llusk 10y agoI am not drawing any conclusions whatsoever. I am referring to an established literature of considerable volume. For a good popular take on all of this there is a big and very well cited section of Outliers by Malcom Gladwell that outlines all of this in a conversational manner. The problem is that you are pretending to be interested in this material without bothering to spend the effort to seek out and read existing findings. If Hispanic people eating far more fruits and vegetables is a key detail as you suggest then why is it that Hispanic peoples in the US are so much more likely to be obese? You really would do yourself a favor by consulting some of the existing literature about this rather than leaning on oversimplifications or attacking me for having dared to refer to studies I have read that may be relevant to this material.