Wednesday, August 29, 2007

What's your ranking?

Have you seen the list of the rate of obesity in the states? Here it is:

Mississippi — 30.6%

West Virginia — 29.8

Alabama — 29.4

Louisiana — 28.2

South Carolina — 27.8

Tennessee — 27.8

Kentucky — 27.5

Arkansas — 27.0

Indiana — 26.8

Michigan — 26.8

Oklahoma — 26.8

Missouri — 26.3

Texas — 26.3

Georgia — 26.1

Ohio — 26.0

Alaska — 25.8

North Carolina — 25.6

Nebraska — 25.4

North Dakota — 25.1

Iowa — 24.9

South Dakota — 24.9

Wisconsin — 24.8

Pennsylvania — 24.5

Virginia — 24.5

Illinois — 24.4

Maryland — 24.4

Kansas — 24.3

Minnesota — 23.7

Delaware — 23.6

Oregon — 23.3

Idaho — 23.2

Washington — 23.2

Maine — 23.0

Florida — 22.9

Wyoming — 22.8

California — 22.7

Nevada — 22.5

New Hampshire — 22.4

New York — 22.4

New Jersey — 22.2

New Mexico — 22.0

Arizona — 21.7

Utah — 21.1

Montana — 20.7

Rhode Island — 20.5

Connecticut — 20.1

Hawaii — 20.1

Vermont — 20.0

Massachusetts — 19.8

Colorado — 17.6

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We're (Connecticut for any of you reading this out of state) are in the bottom five, I guess that's something to be happy about, in a really off handed way.

I wonder what is so different about Colorado and Mississippi? Could be something worth studying. We might find the "cure." Oh wait, we already know that here.

Train smart,

RL

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