blacks and latinos are nearly twice as likely to develop diabetes than whites a red center for food policy and obesity study points out the sad but not surprising news that junk food ads on t.v. intentionally target african-american and latino youth black children in particular are fifty percent more likely than white kids to junk food ads and therefore they're also fifty percent more likely to know what's in a burger king chicken. well . sorry mary just took me to the church of b.k. for a second the same study also says. television ads for the general population. are unlikely to appear on t.v. channels targeted to african-american and latino viewers that means if you ask a black person what actors jamie lee curtis has been up to and they don't mention this that means they probably haven't taken a. nine here. actually. they had to admit that they don't help with digestion at all. and not say great. minority politicians are fully aware of the effects of junk food on their constituents. get a recent study found out when a bill to tax so would have died in the california state legislature in two thousand