Obesity-related health disparities are a major public health challenge facing today’s youth. In particular, Latino youth are 1.5 to 1.7 times more likely to be obese relative to non-Hispanic whites, thus contributing to a disproportionate burden of risk for developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type 2 diabetes (T2D). Latino adolescents are significantly more insulin resistant than whites1 and exhibit the high- est rates of metabolic syndrome among US adolescents.2 A recent cohort study suggests that up to 30% of over- weight Latino youth have impaired glucose tolerance3 and approximately 30% exhibit the metabolic syndrome.4 Collectively, these findings support recent estimates by the CDC that up to 50% of Latino youth born in the year 2000 will develop T2D in their lifetime.5