The racial disparity was most evident in the highest BMI category.
One trend that is all but universally accepted is the widening wealth disparity between those at the very top and bottom.
"The financial sector has the potential to play a central role in Britain's recovery. But it has to address this shocking disparity of rewards," said EHRC Chairman Trevor Phillips.
The disparity cannot be explained by any apparent biological factors.
But the trend has been sharper in America than in most of the rich world, and the disparity has grown.
There is a disparity in how successful men and women are in the boardroom and beyond, and this is something that needs to be addressed.
There still remains, however, the puzzling disparity between the household employment number and the payroll number.
Doctors have proposed several explanations for the disparity, including different levels of external stress and gender-related differences in the psychological response to pain.
But it has to address this shocking disparity of rewards.
The first is social and economic disparity, not only between rich and poor countries, but within all rich and poor countries.
India's wealth and lifestyle disparity is still impossibly great; I probably spent more on pizza than on my maid.
Further, the Society has long funded research that seeks to reduce the disparity gap.
Israel says it is killing civilians by accident, but the disparity in firepower means the Lebanese still suffer much more.
This disparity has increased since 2001.
There's also huge disparity.