Racism and childhood obesity are both pervasive factors adversely affecting the health and wellbeing of children and adolescents in the United States. The association between racism and obesity has been touched upon in the literature; yet most work has focused on a few dimensions of intersectionality of these two domains at one time. The renewed focus on structural racism as the primary contributor to distress of Black individuals in the United States has highlighted the urgency of identifying the contributions of racism to the childhood obesity epidemic. The current article is not a complete review of the literature, rather, it is meant to take a broad narrative review of the myriad ways in which racism contributes to the obesity epidemic in Black youth to serve as a call to action for more research, prevention, and intervention. The current article illustrates how a number of mechanisms for the etiology and maintenance of obesity are heavily influenced by racism and how addressing racism is critical for ameliorating the childhood obesity epidemic.

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解决结构性种族主义对于改善黑人青年儿童肥胖流行病至关重要


种族主义和儿童肥胖症都是对美国儿童和青少年的健康和福祉产生不利影响的普遍因素。文献中已经谈到了种族主义和肥胖之间的关联。然而，大多数工作都同时关注这两个领域交叉性的几个维度。人们重新关注结构性种族主义是造成美国黑人痛苦的主要原因，这突显了确定种族主义对儿童肥胖流行的影响的紧迫性。本文并不是对文献的完整回顾，而是旨在对种族主义导致黑人青年肥胖流行的多种方式进行广泛的叙述性回顾，以呼吁采取行动进行更多研究、预防和干预。本文阐述了肥胖的病因和维持的多种机制如何受到种族主义的严重影响，以及解决种族主义对于改善儿童肥胖流行的重要性。