An estimated one in three adults living in the U.S. are overweight or obese. How did this come to be? It’s probably due to the cumulative effect of many factors (eg. poor diet, inactivity, lack of sleep, stress), rather than one, isolated problem.
So which states are helping or hurting our efforts to reduce the girth of our nation?
Before continuing, it’s only fair to point out that weight-related health was not the only criteria for the CDC’s city-by-city report. That said, because the data were based on an analysis of self-report studies, being overweight is likely a reason for a person to consider and list themselves as “unhealthy.”
Anyway, enough of my prattle. Time for the $64,000 question: Which state was deemed least healthy, and which was deemed healthiest? The answer:
Least Healthy: Huntington, West Virginia
Healthiest: Lincoln, Nebraska
Interested to see if your city landed in the list of top ten healthiest? Take a gander below to find out.
1 – Lincoln, NE Metropolitan Statistical Area
2 – Fargo, ND-MN Metropolitan Statistical Area
3 – Boulder, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area
4 – Burlington-South Burlington, VT Metropolitan Statistical Area
5 – Ogden-Clearfield, UT Metropolitan Statistical Area
6 – Provo-Orem, UT Metropolitan Statistical Area
7 – Concord, NH Micropolitan Statistical Area
8 – Sioux Falls, SD Metropolitan Statistical Area
9 – Barre, VT Micropolitan Statistical Area
10 – Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA Metropolitan Division
For a look at the complete list of 100 U.S. cities, featured from healthiest to least healthy, follow this link to the WebMD website.
More like this in Health and Media Watch Nov 23, 2008
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