Diabetes. In latinos you see really high rates of diabetes and both of these you see high rates of obesity. Now, i do want to point out for asians, they have a special risk. Asians are at higher risk for developing diabetes at a lower weight, okay, which is very, very important. In other words, some, if you just use the normal body mass index indicators, you will see somebody who looks who may be normal weight by our perception, but have actually higher risk for developing metabolic syndrome and diabetes. In china right now there is a huge epidemic of diabetes, huge epidemic of diabetes and we spoke a couple weeks ago at another board of supervisors hearing. Wed be happy to come back and talk a little bit about that. So, its affecting all, all ethnic groups in San Francisco. Just going to briefly summarize one of the challenges that we have here. If you look over, if you look over on the right, the sugary sweetened beverages, we know the evidence is strong. Sugary sweetened beverages c
2005 to 2007, that there has, there has been a decrease in sugary drink consumption among children 2 to 11. And, so, our interpretation of that is the impact thats having and educating parents about decreasing sugary drink consumption among young children. Unfortunately, when the kids reach the age like my children and they have access to the environment where sugary beverages are readily available, we can see in the most recent data, 2011 to 2012, weve had an increase in sugary beverage consumption among all youth across all ethnicities. The next slide points out, this is now looking at children and adolescents you can see in two or more glasses of sugary drinks by ethnicity. And what you can see here is that for latinos and asians, they actually drink more sodas. The reason why africanamericans are not shown here is because the California Health Interview Survey, but the use he of researchers will show you that they also have higher levels of soda consumption compared to whites skew
And they have access to the environment where sugary beverages are readily available, we can see in the most recent data, 2011 to 2012, weve had an increase in sugary beverage consumption among all youth across all ethnicities. The next slide points out, this is now looking at children and adolescents you can see in two or more glasses of sugary drinks by ethnicity. And what you can see here is that for latinos and asians, they actually drink more sodas. The reason why africanamericans are not shown here is because the California Health Interview Survey, but the use he of researchers will show you that they also have higher levels of soda consumption compared to whites skew me, review that one more time. The california Interview Survey because the way thats designed and the size of the africanAmerican Population in San Francisco, we dont have a specific data, but we know from other data, when you look at the broader area africanamericans do drink more soda. ~ excuse so, theyll be simil
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