Latino health problems may grow center-store categories

“Latinos who immigrate to the United States may escape problems in their homeland or find new opportunities here-but at what price?

The longer Latinos live here and acculturate, the likelier they are to adopt an American diet and lifestyle that produces rampant obesity and diabetes. Not surprisingly, these conditions are surging as health problems among the 41 million Latino populace here-to a point where Type 2 diabetes is already 150 percent more prevalent than among whites, says the American Diabetes Association.

“When they come to the U.S., they’re young and healthy. In five years, their diet changes. We need to reverse this trend,” says Liz Mintz, manager of the Latino Nutrition Coalition (LNC), a group formed by Oldways Preservation Trust (Boston, MA) a non-profit food issues think tank, which previously conceived the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid and the Whole Grains Council. “

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