If we talk about the obesity disparities among the women, then, more imperative than the race, it’s their socioeconomic status and social context that affects this malady.

In a research, one study showed that as compared to the white women, the black women are twice more close to being obese. Whilst, the second study also proved that for the black and white women living in similar social and environmental conditions, obesity rates were comparable.

Sara Bleich, PhD, Lead Author and Assistant Professor in the Bloomberg School's Department of Health Policy and Management said, “To date, efforts to explain the disparity in obesity prevalence have primarily focused on individual level factors and little research has focused on social context as a possible explanation. When we examined poor, urban women exposed to the same environment, race disparities in obesity virtually disappeared”.

Also, talking about the growing rates of obesity in the State, if we take children, then they aren’t the ones who go to the grocery shop and get the victuals. Neither do they have to decide on the physical education plan in the school, nor about the servings to them. But all this caters to the adults and the grown-ups. They are the ones who have a direct impact on the children; and hence all this begins with education.