the study also identifies the higher prevalence of obesity of four different minorities , colored - americans and hispanic / latino , but does not consider in its analyze of the increase in obesity the increase of these these populations as a proportion of the few states population . african - americans and hispanic / latino have a higher rates of disease than european americans , while asian - americans have a relatively low rate of obesity . upon only containing three half of the us . s . population , hispanic - americans and hispanic / anglos represent about one half of the overall expansion .
African-Americans are a minority in the U.S.