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Article Source: TreeHuggerTreeHugger has done post after post on why people in the United States are fat, detailing everything from the effects of farm policy, suburban develop, the recession, and sedentary lifestyles on the growing number of Americans with soaring Body Mass Indexes.
by Matthew McDermott
Check out your state ... In my state Massachusetts - 1 out of 4/5 is obese... What is yours?
Check out the info.. pdf file
Both images--taken from the F Is For Fat report [PDF]-
The lightest blue areas have less than 10% obesity rates, the next two blue shades represent 10-20% obesity rates. This is where we were in 1991, with no state in the US (which reported data, the white areas didn't report) having greater than 20% obesity.
The purple is 20-25% obesity, followed by red at 25-30% and orange at greater than 30%. Note that only one state in the 2007-2009 timeframe, Colorado, is in the blue range.
Today our statistically thinnest state has a 19.1% obesity rate among adults, combined obese and overweight is 55.6%. Our fattest, Mississippi (which was also in the bulging ranks in twenty years ago) has an obesity rate of 33.8%, and a combined rate of 68.6%.
#1 - Sun Jul 4, 2010 12:12 PM EDTI think I might of misspoke/wrote.. lol
-- Massachusetts obesity rating is 48th...
My state (Nevada) is ranked #31. Without the super-thin 20-something year old women Las Vegas seems to attract, I'm sure our numbers would be much different.
#2 - Sun Jul 4, 2010 3:28 PM EDTLV - Hey!
From what I have seen when I go to the store.. it looks like over 1/2 of the people in the store are obese... and standing in front of Dunkin Donuts and KFC..
Today, 20 states and D.C. have set nutritional standards for school lunches, breakfasts, and snacks that are stricter than existing USDA requirements: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, D.C., Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Vermont.
What do you expect to see at KFC and Dunkin Donuts- skinny people?? Try going to a gym here- those people are so skinny that if they turn sideways, they disappear!
From what I've seen at my kids' schools, weight and nationality seem to go hand-in-hand.
LV
Yet.. all nationalities have 'robust' people.. some more than others...
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