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The Washington Post on Tuesday examined how "emigrating from pitiful rural life in Central America to poor urban and suburban life" in the U.S. can movement immigrants to adopt new unhealthy eating habits that can pencil lead to obesity, diabetes, pump disease and other ailments. Nationwide, fleshiness and diabetes rates among Hispanics are reaching record levels, according to CDC and other organizations. Hispanics also ar nearly twice as likely to die from diabetes and have much higher rates of high blood pressure.
Lifestyle changes largely put up to immigrants' increased health risks. For example, jobs such as construction and housekeeping bring forth "constant physical effort, just virtually no beneficial utilisation," according to the Post. Diets besides change from "cooking rice and beans, which lack many vitamins," to foods that "have too much fat," the Post reports.
According to health experts, different segments of the Hispanic population face different health lifestyle changes -- youth tend to become less active and play more video games and consume more immobile food and soda; manpower, "far from family support networks and often communion quarters with other hands, tend to drink excessively much beer and high-sugar energy beverages"; and the women working long housework hours have less time to fix healthy meals for their families, the Post reports. In addition, culture and misinformation from their aboriginal countries keep Hispanics from following healthy lifestyles. For example, in Central America and Mexico it is believed that a salubrious child should be "plump," and a thin tiddler is sick, according to the Post.
In response, several health agencies in Washington, D.C. -- where more than than five hundred,000 Hispanics, including immigrants and their native-born children, live -- are arrival out to the residential area by offering health fairs, no-cost symptomatic tests, nutritionary education, prenatal care, utilisation classes and other programs. Elmer Huerta, a cancer expert at Washington Hospital Center world Health Organization hosts a daily health advice show on Spanish radio, said, "In the first 10 years after immigrating, people gain an average of 12 pounds," adding, "They arrive
