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. 2023 Jan 25;31(2):306–315. doi: 10.1002/oby.23640

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© 2023 The Authors. Obesity published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of The Obesity Society.

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The racial discrimination system and its impact on obesity in African American people. Racial disparities exist within a wide range of systems in the United States, including housing, public health, education, employment, and food access. These disparities are connected through a complex web of reciprocal feedback relationships that give rise to a self‐perpetuating system of racial discrimination. Racial disparities in these systems also impact the risk of obesity and related behaviors among African American people [8, 26, 27, 47, 48, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 90, 91].