People living in poverty generally struggle to eat healthy, but low-income Hispanic families with limited knowledge of cooking and eating traditional American foods face a double whammy, according to Leticia Perez of the Salvation Army of Lebanon’s Hispanic outreach program.
“Besides salad, we don’t know how to cook almost any other vegetables,” Perez said, referring to the diet of rice, beans, chicken and pork that forms the basis for most Hispanic dishes.
Latino adults and children are both more likely than white adults and children to be overweight... READ MORE AT LEBANON DAILY NEWS
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