America is fat.
According to the Center for Disease Control, 26 percent of adult American’s are obese. From Fox.
Obesity is based on the body mass index, a calculation using height and weight. A 5-foot-9-inch adult who weighs 203 pounds would have a BMI of 30, which is considered the threshold for obesity.
The South is the fattest region. Why?
Why is the South so heavy? The traditional Southern diet — high in fat and fried food — may be part of the answer, said Dr. William Dietz, who heads CDC’s nutrition, physical activity and obesity division.
Here’s the worst part about this news; the CDC gathered this data by doing a phone survey!
CDC officials believe the telephone survey of 350,000 adults offers conservative estimates of obesity rates, because it’s based on what respondents said about their height and weight. Men commonly overstate their height and women often lowball their weight, health experts say.
“The heavier you are, the more you underestimate your weight, probably because you don’t weigh yourself as often,” Dietz said.
“Hello, I’m calling from the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. Are you fat?”
“Uh….no…I look great.”
Here’s how it breaks down, State by State.
Below is a list of how each state ranks in adult obesity prevalence, along with the percentage of obese adults. The breakdown is based upon a Centers for Disease Control report.
1. Mississippi: 32%
2. Alabama: 30.3%
3. Tennessee: 30.1%
4. Louisiana: 29.8%
5. Arkansas: 28.7%
6. West Virginia: 29.5%
7. South Carolina: 28.4%
8. Georgia: 28.2%
9. Oklahoma and Texas: 28.1%
10. North Carolina: 28%
11. Michigan: 27.7%
12. Alaska, Missouri, and Ohio: 27.5%
13. Delaware and Kentucky: 27.4%
14. Pennsylvania: 27.1%
15. Iowa and Kansas: 26.9%
16. Indiana: 26.8%
17. North Dakota: 26.5%
18. South Dakota: 26.2%
19. Nebraska: 26%
20. Minnesota: 25.6%
21. Oregon: 25.5%
22. Arizona and Maryland: 25.4%
23. Washington: 25.3%
24. New York: 25%
25. Illinois: 24.9%
26. Maine: 24.8%
27. Wisconsin: 24.7%
28. Idaho: 24.5%
29. New Hampshire: 24.4%
30. Virginia: 24.3%
31. Nevada: 24.1%
32. New Mexico: 24%
33. Wyoming: 23.7%
34. New Jersey: 23.5%
35. California: 22.6%
36. Montana, Utah, and Washington, D.C.: 21.8%
37. Hawaii and Rhode Island: 21.4%
38. Massachusetts and Vermont: 21.3%
39. Connecticut: 21.2%
40. Colorado: 18.7%
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Tags: CDC, Dr. William Dietz, Obesity
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Answer to Why Southern States are absent in category below 25%:
We Southerners are ample and zoftig because damn Yankees are always bit-chin’ and moaning about how everyone [west of the Alleghenies] is too fat in their minds.
I am confident I speak for all Southerners: If New Yorkers suddenly found porker as fashionable, then Southerners would be thin as rails.
That is the honest to goodness Truth… so help me, durn it!
Nice list Pribe’s. I enjoy a good list of percents and locales. Personally, I am a Samuel Clemens sort of offs-hooter, finding the human race to be anything but a race. Rather we apparently exist to abuse laws of logic, and to sabotage natural selection.
Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain is the codex to Missouri’s peculiar sense of Justice… and it appears to Ohio, Alaska at 27.5% in the list above… said this:
Pat Darnell and Friends’s last blog post..MooPIg’s Sure-fire Solution for Writers’ Block: a “Vision QUEST”
Link | July 18th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Pribek wrote,
If you lived in Colorado, you probably wouldn’t be sporting that kind of attitude.
Link | July 18th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
J wrote,
Southern by birth, overweight by the grace of God.
J’s last blog post..THE LESSON
Link | July 18th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Pribek wrote,
You know what’s bad about this, J? You guys got your asses kicked by Mississippi again!
Alabama, the Avis of obesity.
Link | July 19th, 2008 at 2:41 am