Posted on 11/08/2017 8:20:43 AM PST by dennisw
A new report ranked 50 states plus Washington DC using 19 different metrics including obesity and overweight population and sugary-beverage consumption
Mississippi ranked number one as the 'fattest state' in America for the second year in a row
More than seven in 10 US adults 20 and older are either overweight or obese, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention
The fattest states in America have been revealed for 2017 with Mississippi leading the way for the second year in a row.
WalletHub ranked the states using 19 different metrics, including three key components, obesity and overweight prevalence, health consequences, and food and fitness.
Among the highest-ranked states based on this criteria are Mississippi, West Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana.
The bottom five marking the the healthiest-ranked states include Colorado, Massachusetts, Utah, Hawaii and Montana.
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South of there
I have stopped eating granola and oatmeal for breakfast and over 6-8months I lost 20+lbs. I am also moving around more. That is all it took for me to lose...
I stopped eating all grains and starches.
Our hot states with high rates of obesity.
My take is that in those hot states people are blowing out their systems by eating heavy diets that are more suitable to a Minnesota farmer or outside laborer of 60 years ago. They get fat, diabetic then obese. They are not working off their intake of heavy foods.
Plus drinking iced tea and iced drinks at meals is awful for digestion of heavy meals.
Shouldn't that be "fatspots?"
Time was, people used to say that the fattest people were in the heavily German-American Midwestern states.
Not anymore, I guess.
Nothing I said disagrees with that
True words
I was agreeing with you.
Under socialized medicine, people who put in the effort to live healthy have to subsidize the fatties that make poor life decisions.
I lost 50 pounds in 6 months by not eating on the weekends (48 -72 ) hours and mostly sleeping. Light meals during the week. No food past 6 pm each night
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