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The Obesity Epidemic and Fast Food Marketing to African Americans

African-American women and children have disproportionately high rates of obesity. This presentation sheds light on that phenomenon by discussing a frequently cited culprit of obesity—fast food. Not only are fast food restaurants plentiful in urban African-American communities, but as this talk underscores, fast food companies have aggressively marketed to African Americans since the early 1970s.

About the Speaker: Chin Jou is a lecturer in American history at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Supersizing Urban America: How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help. She received a PhD in history from Princeton University, and has held fellowships with the National Institutes of Health and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.











When: Wed., Jan. 24, 2018 at 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Where: The New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Ave.
212-822-7200
Price: $12
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African-American women and children have disproportionately high rates of obesity. This presentation sheds light on that phenomenon by discussing a frequently cited culprit of obesity—fast food. Not only are fast food restaurants plentiful in urban African-American communities, but as this talk underscores, fast food companies have aggressively marketed to African Americans since the early 1970s.

About the Speaker: Chin Jou is a lecturer in American history at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Supersizing Urban America: How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help. She received a PhD in history from Princeton University, and has held fellowships with the National Institutes of Health and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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