How Does Your State Stack Up On The Obesity Scale?
In the past couple of years, I have noticed more overweight people than usual, and newspaper and magazine articles on the subject of overweight and diets abound. However, it hadn't really hit me that a huge number of people in the united states are not merely overweight---they are obese.
A recent news article has a map showing the extent of obesity in the United States, and it is alarming. More than half the states in this country have an obesity rate of 25-30% or more. Colorado is the lone state that has below 20 percent. (Good for you ColoradoDreamer.) My own state of Oregon is in the 25-30% range. Check out your own area on the obesity map below.
This should be a wake-up call to all of us since we are shortly heading into the season most noted for over-eating.
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Submitted by Chronic Complainer on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 23:14.
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25-30%
I'm in Illinois, current stats show 25-30%, which is scary but certainly not unbelievable. Even the kids seem to be heavier and more sedentary than ever.
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It IS scary Inklings.
If this keeps up, we won't have to worry about terrorists--we will all be eating ourselves to death.
__________________________If it is true that the squeaky wheel gets the grease, I must be a very slippery character by now.