“…In the NHANES data for 2011-2012, the prevalence of obesity was 10.8% among Asian-Americans, 32.6% among non-Hispanic whites, 42.5% among Hispanics, and 47.8% among non-Hispanic blacks (Ogden et al, 2014). Some of this difference is due to the fact that BMI ignores differences in body composition, and as a result BMI understates obesity in Asian-Americans (Jih et al, 2014) and overstates it in African-Americans (Burkhauser and Cawley, 2008). Within most race/ethnic groups, the prevalence of obesity is similar for women and men, but this is not true for African-Americans, among whom the prevalence of obesity is much higher among women (56.6%) than men (37.1%) (Ogden et al, 2014).…”