Volunteering and Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes in Black Adolescents From Low-Income Families

These results suggest that encouraging adolescents to volunteer may represent a novel approach to improving cardiometabolic health earlier in life and in groups that have been historically marginalized. The notion that volunteering might help not only the recipients of volunteering efforts, but also the volunteers themselves, suggests the possibility of creating a 2-way street of benefits through a single activity that could promote health across groups while also strengthening the social fabric across communities.