RACISM HARMS HEALTH
Children who experience racism appear to be at higher risk of anxiety and depression, and tend to have poorer health in general.
Racism is stressful: These negative experiences increase stress hormones that tax the body’s immune system, and over time can erode physical health.
Higher levels of discrimination are associated with diseases from blood pressure to abdominal obesity to breast cancer to heart disease.
Teens of other skin colour had higher levels of stress hormones, of blood pressure and of weight at age 20. …
