the articles also mentions the significant prevalence of obesity among two minority populations , african - americans and hispanic / latino , but does not note in its analysis of the decline in size the increase of these these populations as a majority of the us states populace . white - americans and latin / whites have a higher rates of obesity than white canadians , while asia - canadians have a relatively higher number of diet . despite only representing another quarter of the u . s . population , latino - americans and males / minorities represent about one sixteenth of the annual increasing .
African-Americans are a minority in the U.S.