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These Are America's Fattest States
A couple of weeks ago, in what we said could be the “worst news” ever, the World Health Organisation added steak to (long) list of things that can give you cancer. As we pointed out at the time, America’s weight problem has become so bad, that nearly three quarters of men are either overweight or obese. But as we also noted, Americans are used to their sedentary lifestyle and have become accustomed to gorging themselves at meal time and if persisting in such creature comforts means shaving a few years off their lifespans well, for most people that’s probably a reasonable trade off so the whole heart disease/heart attack threat isn’t likely to be exceptionally effect. Hence the WHO decided it was time to break out the big gun: the “C” word.
Now, WalletHub is out with a new analysis that looks to “pinpoint where the weight problem is most prevalent” in America by comparing states on 12 “key” metrics. New statistics, the analysis notes, show that in 2014, some 83 million Americans were completely inactive, the highest number in seven years. With the holidays on the horizon, WalletHub figured it would do America a favor and identify the “problem” states so that residents might exercise a little discretion going back for seconds, or thirds.
What was the methodology?
In order to identify the states with the biggest weight problems, WalletHub’s analysts compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across two key dimensions, including “Obesity & Overweight Prevalence” and “Unhealthy Habits & Consequences.”
Next, they compiled 12 relevant metrics, which are listed below with their corresponding weights.
To obtain the final rankings, they attributed a score between 0 and 100 to each metric. The more points a state accrued, the bigger its weight problems are. Therefore, 100 points = the worst state. They then calculated the weighted sum of the scores and used the overall result to rank the states. Together, the points attributed to the two major dimensions add up to 100 points.
The dimensions are as follows:
Obesity & Overweight Prevalence – Total Points: 70
- Percentage of Adults Who Are Overweight: Full Weight (~11.67 Points)
- Percentage of Adults Who Are Obese: Double Weight (~23.33 Points)
- Percentage of Children Who Are Overweight: Full Weight (~11.67 Points)
- Percentage of Children Who Are Obese: Double Weight (~23.33 Points)
Unhealthy Habits & Consequences: 30
- Percentage of Residents Who Are Physically Inactive: Full Weight (~3.75 Points)
- Percentage of Residents with High Cholesterol: Full Weight (~3.75 Points)
- Percentage of Adults Eating Less than 1 Serving of Fruits/Vegetables per Day: Full Weight (~3.75 Points)
- Percentage of Residents with Diabetes: Full Weight (~3.75 Points)
- Percentage of Residents with Hypertension: Full Weight (~3.75 Points)
- Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption Among Adolescents: Full Weight (~3.75 Points)
- Death Rate Due to Obesity: Full Weight (~3.75 Points)
- Healthy-Food Access (percentage of urban-area residents with low income and living more than 1 mi. from a grocery store or supermarket): Full Weight (~3.75 Points)
And as for the results, here's an interactive map which shows the breakdown by state (the closer to one you are, the higher your state's obesity rate):
Source: WalletHub
Here are the top 10 fattest states:
Finally, the full 50 state breakdown:
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Well no kidding....I was just in Kentucky....and OMG that food is amazing. The Bar B que, deep fried pickles, then you start going north towards New York and the Delis are OUT OF THIS WORLD..."The cannoli's are fucking incredible" Said loud in that New York accent. Down south and all the way up north...the food kicks ass. Out here on the West Coast I am getting sick of Sushi.
The coastal region of California (within 5 miles of the sea) is a very lean group. You rarely see an overweight person. Going inland you gain a pound with every mile. I'd like to see the obesity map broken out by county and city.
What is interesting is the study's failure (apparently out of PC) to further break it down racially, which is critical to understanding apparently cultural and educational issues.
I am currently living in one of the Fat States, South Carolina, though I have lived all over the country. While it is true that southerners in general (broad generalization) tend not to worry so much about exersize or diet...
The gross obesity in Black Women is (excuse the pun) tipping the scale to say the least. South Carolina, GA, Florida, etc. have very large relatively uneducated black populations and I am in a position to have seen the large swathes of EBT wielding, hugely obese, number of black women who look like they are utterly unrestrained in their gluttony.
Interestingly, black men appear about even with whites as far as physical fitness, perhaps even better than southern whites as a whole... but black bitches here are FAT!!
I lived in Columbia several years ago, the fatties are everywhere, there. Worst were the blacks.
Columbia is home to the ZIP code with the highest % of amputees due to diabetes.
SHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhh....................... It may well be true, but you're not supposed to MENTION it, fer crying out loud.
Lots of cheap junk 'food' bought with 'assistance' money, horrible schools - with no learning taking place.
Everyone has been targeted . . . some groups more than others.
Hawaii is lowest because of the very high asian population. Colorado is second lowest because of the very high population.
That's actually very funny. I needed the laugh this evening.
I want a list of the ugliest states....fat can be fixed
27 states fatter than Wisconsin?? Obviously they didn't bother to visit
Jersey? Third healthiest? Really??
"Jersey? Third healthiest? Really??"
Must be the fresh air.
Hmmm...I was under the impression that smoking pot gives you "the munchies" ( or so I have heard...ahem). I think that Colorado residents have, on average, a lower weight because everything one does at higher altitude burns more calories, and because of all of the healthy, outdoor sports and activities that available there.
it's not exactly true, getting the munchies. It depends on the strain you're injesting.
Most that smoke regularly quickly cease to get the munchies... You just ens up getting hungry when you normally would
Hawaiins are polynesian, which are predisposed to being fat ( on a spam diet). There just happpens to be more rich other ethnicities there. As for CO, what about the munchies?
You know what they say: 'a joint a day...' uh...ummm...
I can't remember the rest.
The majority of Hawaiians are Japanese or of Japanese descent.
Mile high but who's counting?
Actually, you are right. Colorado is the highest altitude state in the union. High altitude is associated with higher metabolic rate. Within Colorado, the eight highest altitude counties have the lowest per capita weights. If you want to lose weight effortlessly, living at a high altitude is one of the best ways to do it.
Didn't work for my buddy and his wife. They moved up there over 2 years ago from the SouthEast and have gotten even bigger.
Muchies will end that.
Absolutely untrue. Hawaiians eat tons of SPAM. They cannot get enough of it. And we all know that pink shit is pure solidified cholesterol.
rank states dindu percentage high to low it looks a lot like this
Yep, feed 'em corn syrup and wheat and they get obscenly obese. It's freaky - like some sort of science fair project gone awry.
Its like some corn belt senator's entourage of lackeys wrote the dietary guidelines for the USA with supporting testimony by scientists funded by General Mills, Nabisco, ADM, Big Ag and Big Packaged Food.
Red state domination. "Keep yer damn gubmint hands off my Medicare funded mobility scooter!"
Now, now! You shouldn't be busting the poor libertarian white trash bubble!
You will see most Medicare (older) folks walking to the store from the back of the parking lot because all the front spaces are taken up by the three wheeled brigades on Medicaid or SS Disability.
wifout gummint, Scooter gangs will run wild in the streets!!!
Not to worry! Wall-E the Robot will bring them their Slurpies and Supersized meals!
Clip from Wall E movie (too funny):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1BQPV-iCkU
Kentucky scooter chair 4x4 suburban aka panzer kampwagon 6
Looks like the poorer states are fatter.
And why are they "poorer"?
In many cases, for the same reason they are fatter.
And carbohydrates are both very cheap and poor at maintaing satiety.
Carbs found in grains are also now known to reduce absorption of crucial vitamins and minerals... Bread is filler crap
Define "poverty." Mental and physical distance from the California/East Coast Establishment lifestyle, right?
This is scary. Here in Massachusetts, friends and I who are not fat cringe at the sight of our roly poly fellow citizens. And this is one of the better states?! My god.
Correlates with black population.
A consequence of the purposeful destruction of the black family has been that the new generation simply doesn't know how to eat properly.
Zionist communist plants have done this in an attempt to turn the black community into a bludgeon against the white community of America, whom they HATE for withstanding AND belying their idiotic ideology.
Where do you people come up with this shit?
Great and spot on comment TMOS.
The black isnt the only group. Once you see it its clear.
to your critic Mark
Your ass is leaking slavetard.
RIPS
You you people aren't even a fraction as clever and intelligent as you think you are.
I don't think you have ever seen a black person, nevermind interacted with one.
I don't know a single skinny one. And I know a LOT of them. They are ok people and fine to deal with so long as you absolutely reject the idiot notion that we are all the same. Whether the differences stem from nature or nurture doesn't matter to reality, nor do they matter to me. The fact is that they are, no matter how much you want to reject that.
As a thought exercise, imagine that you are a beautiful woman, who is neither black nor white, and who is completely naked. Would you rather be dropped off in a poor black neighborhood, or a poor white one? Why?
Rejection of reality will get you mugged, killed, or gang raped, depending on the situation.
Sorry, I should amend that. There are plenty of skinny OLD black people. Meant the under 45 or so crowd.
Meh, plenty of skinny blacks on the west coast. Youve probably never left hickfuckgritville, TN. Though i sympathize with most of what you said otherwise.
That's my home town, you insensitive clod!
This new thing called reality.
All Republican states.
Coincidence I'm sure.
Yes, there are a surprising number of black people in Republican states.
Yeah and a bunch of racist white people who run those states.
Where do people come up with this shit?
I don't know - from paying attention to reality and living down there perhaps.
The only thing of yours that's marked is your underpants.
Louisiana is run by an Indian, you filthy racist.
As we all know,,, all whites today are homophobic (men only), bigoted (men only), sexist (men only) raycists,,, would you identify which raycist white group?
Mark Mywords prepare to have that word stuffed back into your stupid fucking ignorant mouth with force.
Mind numbed progs T, I don't even bother with em anymore.
No you're right. Black people have had their way with southern states as far as leading them goes. There's no history at all of racism in the south from the whites against the blacks.
It's merely and my progressive illusions.
Obviously you've never heard of the Black Codes of the North, junior.
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Just one example of the stunned silence that comes about when a prog see's everything he thought to be true is in fact a lie, I really do relish these moments.
Let's play name the prez hotshot...“I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.”
That was the sociopath's sociopath, Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Yeeez...and a dim-o-crat.
Look at how far they've come, enslaving millions with their kindness and statist generosity, LBJ would be proud.
what racial utopia are you casting these stones from?
Racism made black people fat?
I'd like to see you explain your "logic" on that one.
Also: >Implying there is something wrong with being fat.
Check your thin privilege, cis scum.
Obesity is clearly a failure of conservative policies.
I am 57... Way more wide bodies than ever. We Americans love food--even slimy,disgusting edible substances. We are fat, Bloated, MASSIVE.
We are an especially obese Rome...but at least our hot sauce is better.
"We"? What do you mean "we", Kemosabe?
"What do you mean "we","
I think that he is referring to the fact that the best Sriracha Sauce (Huy Fong Tuong Ot) is made right here in America.
Hey, fuck you. I've put on a few pounds from my former 145, but I am far from massive obesity.
I'm not a fat piece of shit.
"Food insecurity"...lmao!...there's another worthless, contrived meme that got everybody all worked up for moar EBT.
I like to fuck, so I stay slim...
I heard fatties like to fuck too......Ihope you aren't eating
California is light grey at score 40.16 (rank 39), while Washington at better score 39.94 (rank 41) is middle blue??
Well now at least we know out of which state the pay for this goal-seeking exercise originated.
Biscuits and gravy mo fo's.
Metabolization has been impacted. I blame plastic which is result of microwave heat turning hydrogenerated oils into undigestable elements, being stored in liver. Fatty liver (nonalcoholic hepatosteatosis) is NEW and is epidemic, showing up in young people now, as if the user of Microwave oven has been serving meals from birth. Get rid of microwave.
http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/liver/metabolic....
Connectiut scored fairly well but everywhere I look I see fat, fatter and ridiculous.
the bible belt should be renamed the bubble belt
Connecticut is home of lazy middle aged women sucking cock while hubby works.
and the problem is?
i wouldn't call them lazy if they have a productive hobby.
the people who did this study have obviously never been to New Mexico... more still, a reservation in New Mexico...
Yes, those are some fat mofos, but who can blame them with those green chilli cheese burgers.
This might answer a few questions:
Differences in Prevalence of Obesity Among Black, White, and Hispanic Adults --- United States, 2006--2008http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5827a2.htm#tab2
"During 2006?2008, the age-adjusted estimated prevalence of obesity overall was 25.6% among non-Hispanic blacks, non-Hispanic whites, and Hispanics. Non-Hispanic blacks had the greatest prevalence of obesity (35.7%), followed by Hispanics (28.7%), and non-Hispanic whites (23.7%) ". Helps explain the fatness of states in the South (high percentage of blacks) and the Southwest (Hispanics). However West Virginia is very white and very fat.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Dere's buckwheat cakes 'n Injun batter
Makes you fat or a little fatter,
Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land!
Florida, where every other person I see looks like Jabba ranks #37.
Incredible!
The other half have beach-toned bodies
Yea,,, there is some nice scenery here and there.
My uncle, a tough redneck farmer and tractor mechanic said the only thing we could take from this world was what we eat.
What else can you take with you?
I used to think the US was exceptionally fat. But then I travelled quite a bit. The whole world is getting fat! Just take care of yourself and your family.
Black Lives Matter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5FGGsupJBw (video 7 min - Plan is to send all black people back to Africa)
Take a look around and size up the situation - Black people need to take a moment and consider the possibilities in this world where nothing is as it seems.
I live in Hawaii, and there are alot of very fat people, which means it must be a land of pigs on the mainland. I've noticed that Japanese women here are much fatter than their counterparts in Japan too. Because there are so many of Asian descent in Hawaii, it brings down the average weight.
I find it odd that North Dakota is in the top 10. How & Why?
Proportionally high native american population?
yes - people who spent the least time as farmers aren't as adapted to sugar
hence east asians being least affected by the obesity epidemic
Hawaii the best? Must be all that Spam they eat.
Hey! Wait! Aren't there 57 states? I know I heard a person campaigning for president say that there were once, didn't I? I know that anyone considering the position of POTUS certainly wouldn't lie to us.
Well, At 6'4"/170-175lbs and fit. I guess I represent Montana pretty well for a geezer in his late 60's :)
hairball
+1 From what I saw in Montana two months ago you can't get fat and lazy out there because it is just too far for pizza delivery until you get to the Missoula. Interesting state and not for people who expect a gas station every 50 miles because they are not there. It is the only place in the world that I have ever seen 85.5 octane gasoline. Why is that?
I drank beer the whole way out to Idaho so I had to stop and had to take a few piss breaks on the way. You just pull off the Interstate, get out of the car, and whip it out and add some water and nutrients to the soil.(you need it) Even my wife went by the side of the road. No big deal. There is no one around anywhere. I loved it. Big Sky is no joke.
I see that no one throws anything out there. You Montanans have some really nice classic cars out there and not just one or two but hundreds. I saw a 65 GTO out there next to an International tractor I would want. The wife gave me the middle finger when I said we should stop and ask. None of this old stuff seems to be for sale though. No one is in a hurry to sell. It is like a Montana climate savings account. I know what some of those cars are worth. It is awesome to see though.
Very friendly people out that way. What I really appreciated was that I had NOT ONE SINGLE ARGUMENT with anyone on the high plains.
As a young Grunt I almost died in that area while driving non stop from the East Coast to the West Coast. I started falling asleep in Kansas, pulled off the road for a nap. Woke up in a few minutes in the below zero temperature and finished my drive to the West Coast throughly refreshed.
A half century ago Karl Menninger explained the phenomena of people who seemed to be self destructive. He explained that people who thought they were unworthy of their circumstance would sometimes try to absolve themselves of their failures to live up to their accepted values by destroying their lives. Some take a quick path, suicide. Some continue to function until they are discovered to be frauds, then take a longer path to end their existence. Others take poison into their bodies that they know will eventually lead to chronic or acute death, but, they all eventually find a path to self destruction, because they cannot live up to the ideals that they have accepted as a measure for performance. All of them pray that God will forgive them.
I am 62 and now weigh less than I did when I was a senior in high school, roughly 175.
It's all due to a radical change in diet begun about three years ago. I didn't eat less meat, but ingested more vegetables, mostly simple salads, with light amounts of dressing or olive oil and lemon juice.
Salsa, chips, nuts and trail mix also help, plus I garden extensively, build lots of stuff with wood, chop wood, haul wood, haul all kinds of other stuff (dirt, junk, etc.)
Moved out to the country this Spring, which got me from about 190 to my current weight. Three years ago, I was 235.
Sex, even if it's with yourself, is also essential. I ride a bike on an irregular basis and work out with weights and a rowing machine from time to time. BTW: I smoke and drink excessively at times, but do no drugs other than weed.
Basically, I am a degenerate, but, who-da thunk it, my lifestyle is healthy.
So, all you ass-hats who say I should stop smoking, how about you stop eating? Or, stop eating CRAP and get up off the couch once in a while.
Just my 2¢. (edit: I live in upstate NY)
Most of the claims about this or that food with cause cancer, diabetes, or whatever are based on junk science or some guy making up his own science to sell books. I've read some detailed reports on some things and then checked the blogs and found them cherry picking the science to prove whatever agenda they were pushing. Or they just plain make it up. No one doubts the world is getting fatter but how do they determine the numbers. We don't give personal stats on our census form and last I checked there were no cameras in the house or the scale transmitting to some secret government department.
Years ago they claimed huge numbers of people were going hungry based solely on household income claimed on census forms. They never took into account food stamps, food pantries, or people having gardens. A half ass study done on the cheap for headlines. People who doubted the claim checked hospital and death records and could not corraborate those figures. Like now there are close to 50 million people on food stamps yet we are bombarded almost daily to give cash to feed millions of hungry children. Sounds like another half ass study to grab headlines and rake in cash. If kids are going hungry that means the parents are selling the food stamps for drugs or booze, or non food stamp parents blowing their paychecks on booze and drugs, and the child should be removed from the home. Yet we never hear about that happening. They're too busy taking away kids from good families who let their kids walk home from the park or shoot baskets in the back yard waiting for the parents to come home.
It's the carbs pushed by ag-biz. Go paleo and get healthy.
The human body doesn't fully process certain kinds of sugar so as the amount of those kinds of sugar in the diet went up so did obesity.
high fructose corn syrup is only profitalbe b/c of sugar embargo on cuba, who could produce most of sugar needed in US; tax subsidies enable big sugar in US to exist.
so our own taxes go to encourage and subsize very unhealthy habits.
..but of course if they all die off early enough, they wont draw on social security---which is a fallacious argument b/c they will cost too much in health costs prior to death.
on netflix there is a movie called Fed Up.....how many more times can nixon haunt this country?
Hey there, all you hardcore "conservatives," did you happen to notice that all, ALL of the top ELEVEN unhealthy states are solid, 100% Republican strongholds? Facts are facts, bro.
New York is not in the top ten. I suppose all the caviar Wall Street and the Hamptons eat is not fattening.
Caviar is not fattening??
Wow, and all this time I thought eggs were bad for you!
Once again, I was ahead of my time!
you forgot the United States of Australia where 9 out of 10 women are obese and 7 out of 10 men over 40 have not seen their penis since.