the article explicitly mentions the greater rate of obesity among dual minority populations , african - immigrants and hispanic / latino , but does not considering in its analysis of the gain in size the increase of these these populations as a proportion of the home world population . african - americas and hispanic / latinos have a higher rates of obesity than white americans , while asian - americans have a moderately low rate of consumption . upon only representing one third of the u . s . population , african - americans and hispanic / latinos represent about one half of the overall size .
African-Americans are a minority in the U.S.