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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

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The chart provides information about the wide circulation of overweight among teenagers aged 12 to 19 years by nationality, in the United States over a period of ten years between 2004 and 2014.
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, more
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boys
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 suffered from
obesity
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while
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 rate was higher among the
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non-Hispanic
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Hispanic
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 black
girls
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. We can see from the initial column graph that , over 10% of adolescent
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Hispanic
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 white
boys
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, aged 12 to 19, were classified as corpulent in the year 2004. A comparable percentage of
boys
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 from
Hispanic
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 and
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non-Hispanic
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Hispanic
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 black backgrounds faced a similar issue.
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, 9% of
girls
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 within the same age group, belonging to
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non-Hispanic
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Hispanic
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 US citizens, were overweight, slightly less than their male counterparts from the same ethnicity.
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obesity
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 rate among
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non-Hispanic
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Hispanic
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 black
girls
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 reached 16% in that year, surpassing the figures for
boys
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 in the same ethnic group by 5%, and exceeding those for white and
Hispanic
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girls
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 by 7% and 4%, respectively. After a decade, the situation got worse.
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Hispanic
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boys
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 increased to 27%, marking a 14% surge. In 2014, one in five
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non-Hispanic
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Hispanic
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boys
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were
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was
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 overweight.
Additionally
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, the
obesity
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 rate among
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non-Hispanic
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Hispanic
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girls
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 rose to 29%, a 13% increase, surpassing that of
girls
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 from other ethnicities. Evidently, in 2014, a higher percentage of
Hispanic
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boys
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 and
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non-Hispanic
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Hispanic
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girls
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, 27% and 29% respectively, were affected by
obesity
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 compared to their counterparts of different ethnic backgrounds.

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Vocabulary: Replace the words hispanic, boys, obesity, non-hispanic, girls with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • prevalence
  • obesity
  • ethnicity
  • impact
  • bar charts
  • data
  • represent
  • studying
  • rates
  • significant
  • differences
  • highest
  • lowest
  • compare
  • trend
  • experienced
  • changes
  • over 10-year period
  • highlight
  • variations
  • notable
  • summarize
  • findings
  • implications
  • adolescents
  • addressing
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