Compared with Caucasian women, a college education appears to be less likely to protect African American women from obesity, according to new research.
U.S. investigators found that the weight gap between African Americans and Caucasians widened with increasing schooling. For instance, although women of both races appeared to have the same average weight if they got no more than a high school education, African American women with a college degree significantly outweighed Caucasian women with a college degree.
"You actually saw (the weight difference) getting bigger, the more education women had," study author Dr. Tené Lewis told Reuters Health.
| Continue Alison McCool's Reuters Health article "Education Doesn't Prevent Obesity in Black Women" Most of the same information is in the Chris Martin EurekAlert! press release "College education protects Caucasian women against obesity more than African American women" The public site for the SWAN study, which helped in compiling the research, is here
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