immigrating to the US worsens your diet

I’ve been talking a lot lately with immigrants and practitioners who work with immigrants who are worried about obesity and are trying to develop programs that address the obesity epidemic. These conversations remind me that several years ago, I helped lead a group of high school kids–almost all new immigrants from Africa and Central America–in community research on that very issue. They made a short video that is quite engaging. Their website is down, but I found their product on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. You can click the little icon to make it play at full-screen size.