29

August
2007

State-by-State Adult Obesity Rankings

category: Dafé’s Café - Daily Dose of Medical News,MyDocHub
by Dafé,

Obesity

According to the Trust for America’s Health, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to saving lives by protecting the health of every community and working to make disease prevention a national priority, here are the state-by-state adult obesity rankings:

1: Mississippi; 2: Alabama; 3: West Virginia; 4: Louisiana; 5: Kentucky; 6: Tennessee; 7: Arkansas; 8 (tie): Indiana, South Carolina; 10: Texas; 11: Michigan; 12: Georgia; 13: Oklahoma; 14: Missouri; 15 (tie): Ohio, Alaska; 17: North Carolina; 18: North Dakota; 19: Pennsylvania; 20: Nebraska; 21: Iowa; 22: South Dakota; 23: Illinois; 24: Maryland; 25: Virginia; 26: Kansas; 27: Minnesota; 28: Wisconsin; 29: Delaware; 30 California; 31 (tie): Idaho, Washington; 33: Oregon; 34: Maine; 35: Florida; 36 (tie): Wyoming, New Hampshire, New York; 39: D.C.; 40 (tie): New Jersey, New Mexico; 42: Nevada; 43 (tie): Arizona, Utah; 45: Montana; 46: Connecticut; 47 (tie): Rhode Island, Vermont; 49: Massachusetts; 50: Hawaii; 51: Colorado.

For an interactive map of U.S. obesity rates by state click here.

Related posts:

  1. Can Obesity Be Caused By a Virus?
  2. State Funding For HIV/AIDs Drug Program
  3. Don’t Blame Schools For Childhood Obesity
  4. European Descent and Heart Disease
  5. Human Trials of Cannabis Obesity Drug

|



Comments

Name (required)

Email (required)

Website

Leave a comment

5 Comments so far

  1. University Update - HPV - State-by-State Adult Obesity Rankings | 29 August 2007, 13:31

    [...] Nile Virus State-by-State Adult Obesity Rankings » This Summary is from an article posted at MyDocHub Blog on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 [ [...]

  2. Liver Disease Linked to Obesity at MyDocHub Blog | 10 March 2008, 20:55

    [...] can lead to cirrhosis and liver failure, is on the rise, and it is linked to the country’s obesity [...]

  3. David Sandoval | 01 October 2009, 09:21

    Being over weight can cause many health concerns

  4. | Arthritis pain relief | 08 October 2009, 22:32

    Obesity is really a bad condition to be with. it is the cause of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. i always see to it that i have a healthy diet and a good exercise to avoid being overweight.

  5. Southwest Airlines and Kevin Smith on Too Fat to Fly Policy | MyDocHub Blog - Online Health Community | 15 February 2010, 15:07

    [...] director, is the ‘Too Fat to Fly’ policy Unfair? You would think that with the growing obesity rate in the United States, most airlines would be mindful that its flying population may need bigger seats and make that [...]