"Obesity Interventions in Underserved Communities" written by Virginia Brennan, Shiriki Kumanyika, and Ruth Zambrana is a new book focused on the obesity epidemic in disadvantaged communities. In this book a group of researchers discovers ways to prevent obesity in these communities.  The authors also make recommendations to policymakers for ways to reverse the rising rates of obesity to policy makers.

The book is made up of literature reviews, commentaries, and field reports there were collected to find ways to prevent and treat obesity in the underserved population; the literature focuses on children and young adults. This book also suggests ways to reverse the upward trends of obesity among underserved communities, ethnic minorities, or impoverished people.

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