Why are Immigrants’ Children Living Shorter Lives?

This is sad; for several reasons, immigrants' kids are not very healthy.    - - Donna Poisl

by Kristina Chew

When I was growing up in the 1970s, I was frequently reminded that I needed to eat every last grain of rice and “think of the starving children in China.” My grandparents on both sides had emigrated to California at the start of the 20th century and America provided not only economic opportunities but a better life, with plenty of food and far better medical care.

A century later, the U.S. remains a land steeped in the proverbial “milk and honey,” but literally in excess. Public health researchers are discovering that, for immigrants, life in the U.S. is not automatically tied to better health.
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