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    How fat is your state???

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    • Posts: 748 Member
      I've lived in both fatter and thinner states. It's interesting how these state breakdown politically. Obesity is definitely a concerning health issue but it also has national financial implications.
    • Posts: 4,792 Member
      I'm ticked. Here I am doing my part, yet Florida has risen 7 places. Why do I bother?
    • Posts: 83 Member
      Hmmm....33. Not too bad.
    • Posts: 1,651 Member
      13, my state is a fat *kitten*
    • Posts: 590 Member
      Kentucky, 31.5. Makes sense though, fast food joint on every corner and the produce sections in any store is horrible. Can't wait to go back to the Home State--Colorado!!!
    • Posts: 3,093 Member
      Except for 15 months, I've lived exclusively in green zone states (the least fat segment), including Colorado, which, according to the chart, is the least fat. New York (41) is not without its overweight people, but in Manhattan you see an exceptional number of thin people.

      I have no doubt that environment plays some role.
    • Posts: 192 Member
      Mass is #48!
    • Posts: 186 Member
      Woo, New Jersey! =D
    • Posts: 2,333 Member
      Except for 15 months, I've lived exclusively in green zone states (the least fat segment), including Colorado, which, according to the chart, is the least fat. New York (41) is not without its overweight people, but in Manhattan you see an exceptional number of thin people.

      I have no doubt that environment plays some role.

      yeah, I'm in Manhattan. I agree that those stats are probably not all that accurate for Manhattan, espcially if you just include parts below Harlem. I doubt that 61.4% of Manhattan is either overweight or obese. Everyone is skinny here! Makes me want to leave Manhattan, so I can be the skinny one among all the fat people instead of not particularly being considered thin for my area.
    • Posts: 180 Member
      I just moved to Virginia, right near DC... I thought it seemed like there were a LOT more fit people here. More fit, ad WAY more active than where I came from in Pennsylvania. Cool to see I wasn't imagining things!
    • Posts: 213 Member
      GA
      17th :/

      i swear it had to be top 5
    • Posts: 1,196 Member
      I live in 2 of the thinnest states! DC and LA
    • Posts: 174 Member
      my state is 27 on the list so just on the other side of half
    • Posts: 1,036 Member
      Having lived most of my life in Colorado and a significant amount of time in Houston, TX, I've seen the day & night difference - not the difference in the people but in the culture. I'm SO glad to be back in CO!
    • Posts: 723 Member
      Tennessee went from #2 in 2010 to #4 in 2011....lol wow
    • Posts: 854 Member
      Michigan, pretty damn fat!! #5 on the list. Yikes!!!!:noway:
    • Posts: 1,923 Member
      13, my state is a fat *kitten*

      Yep, I can't believe almost 30% of the population of OH is obese. Makes me want to move...Colorado is looking better every day!
    • Posts: 776 Member
      I'm ticked. Here I am doing my part, yet Florida has risen 7 places. Why do I bother?

      At least you don't live in Mississippi.
    • Posts: 946 Member
      # 13. Man.
    • Posts: 297
      Colorado still leanest
    • Posts: 1,263 Member
      Hmm... now I know why I got fat!

      I was born in a thin state (43rd), moved to a fatter state (29th), and then to an even fatter one (13th)! Ohio made me obese. :sad:

      (typo ._.)
    • Posts: 1,373 Member
      I honestly thought Texas would be top five or so. 12 isn't THAT bad in comparison, but still. Hopefully that number will go down eventually.
    • Posts: 474 Member
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      At least you don't live in Mississippi.

      My sister, dad, and brother live in Mississippi :/ lol funny thing is they are all skinny lol
    • Posts: 220 Member
      Lucky 13, I lived in AZ and then back here. I like it back here because there is less meth use in my area and girls are not all puking in the restrooms....buuuuuuuut... there are not a lot of healthy people here. People I work with expect us to put 5 lbs of sugar in a 5 gallon sweet tea igloo.... Ick, Sugared tea is gross anyway... the biggest champion for the sweet tea has the dark diabetes spots on her face and is as wide as she is tall, she gets winded walking 10 feet. No one cares here.
    • Posts: 474 Member
      And I knew my move from Nevada to Oklahoma made me fat!!! Lol
    • Posts: 2,094 Member
      TX is #12.... =/
    • Posts: 417 Member
      #38 for Mn. I would think all the hearty food we eat during the long winters we would be fatter.
    • Posts: 69 Member
      Originally from CA (#40), lived in Missouri for 25 years (#11).....and now in Arizona (#35)!
    • Posts: 84 Member
      Oklahoma #7! not surprised.....
    • Posts: 284
      New Hampshire is #33. We should be hire up but people from Mass #48 keep moving here.
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