Chelsea Singleton, an assistant professor in the department of kinesiology and community health at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has completed a five-year study looking at violence and the impact that it has on nutrition, physical activity and obesity. The study found that In urban Chicago, Black communities had significantly higher rates of violent crime, and adults in those communities had higher rates of physical inactivity and obesity compared to adults in Hispanic or white communities.
