Article: National Study Finds Direct Link Between Inactivity, Weight Gain in American Adolescent Girls.

Article: Black Girls Are Not Heavier than White ...
Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA;  May 16, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... adiposity between black girls and white girls, D.S. Freedman ... after age 13 did black girls maintain a heavier weight than white girls. The researchers ... relative weight, black girls do not exceed white girls until they reach ...

Article: When it comes to body image, white girls could ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  June 5, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Indeed, one of the big differences between the black girls and the white girls on ``The Body Trap'' was where they got their ... white girls got them from magazines and TV. The black girls got them from their families. ``My mother told ...

Article: Black girls showing signs of puberty earlier than ...
Jet;  May 5, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... estimated, and more Black girls show evidence ... development earlier than White girls, according to ... 7 percent of White girls show the signs ... 2 percent of Black girls have pubertal ... 7 percent of White girls show development ...

Article: Black girls are 50 percent more likely to be ...
NewsRx Science;  April 5, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... survey results reveals: Black girls were 50 percent more likely than white girls to exhibit bulimic behavior ... About 2.6 percent of black girls were clinically bulimic, compared to 1.7 percent of white girls. Overall, approximately ...

Article: Black girls 50% more likely to be bulimic than ...
Black Enterprise;  July 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... by reoccurring episodes of binging and purging, has been perceived as affecting privileged white teens. However, young black girls are more likely to exhibit bulimic behavior than their White peers as are girls from families in the lowest income bracket ...

Article: Reaching puberty early: environmental factors are putting ...
Colorlines Magazine;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... striking was that Black girls were beginning ... earlier than white girls. Compared with ... years, and Black girls precede white girls by half a year ... percentage of Black girls who are overweight ... than that of white girls. However ...

Article: Study finds dramatic decline in physical activity among African ...
Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA;  October 6, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... 16 or 17, 56% of black girls and 31% of white girls reported they have ... colleagues studied 1213 black girls and 1166 white girls enrolled in the NHLBI ... activity decline in white girls only, relatively few black girls smoked. Thus, there ...