The bar charts below show the prevalence of obesity among boys and girls aged 12 to 19 years by ethnicity, in the United States for the years 2004 and 2014. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant

The graph explains the proportion of overweight boys and girls aged from 12 to 19 in the US

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their background, in 2004 and 2014. Generally speaking, what stands out from the diagram is that in 2014 the percentage of obesity was higher among all studied groups. In 2004, Hispanics were the fattest group with 13%,

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non-Hispanic

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white placed second with only a 1% difference.

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,

non-Hispanic

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black people were

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least overweight category with 11% and 1% difference

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non-Hispanic

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white. In 2014, same in 2004, Hispanics had the highest percentage of fat people with 27%.

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, the change between each bracket was much greater compared to ten years ago, and the figure for

non-Hispanic

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white and

non-Hispanic

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black was 17% and 20% respectively.