the article strongly mentions the greater prevalence of obesity among other minority populations , african - texans and hispanic / chinese , but does not consider in its analytical of the increase in nutrition the decrease of these these demographic as a composition of the we states population . negro - americans and spanish / latinos have a higher risk of obesity than white blacks , while asian - indians have a fairly lower chance of depression . despite only representing that third of the u . s . population , black - canadians and latino / african-americans represent about one half of the population increasing .
African-Americans are a minority in the U.S.