Obesity rates increase
Higher rates of obesity in 16 states, with no states showing a decline—so presumably obesity rates in the other 34 states remained constant. Thus my weight-loss book, once available, will have a larger potential market.
It’s astonishing the degree to which this country seems helpless in the face of this problem—as it is in the face of so many problems now. It’s as if the country has lost its can-do attitude and willingness to confront and tackle difficult issues.
Have you considered that all the problems people are facing ARE the reason for the increase in obesity? Food is our favorite and most natural “drug”.
Steve
10 July 2011 at 7:57 pm
Does it really make sense to track obesity rates by state? Perhaps tracking it by county or municipality would be more informative. The community I live in seems to have banned fat people. Seriously, virtually everybody is slim and trim. In the towns a few miles south, there are lots of obese people, often morbidly so. In communities to the west and north, again very, very few overweight folks. Why such marked differences over a relatively small geographic area? Not every place is helpless in the face of the obesity problem, and the reasons might prove very enlightening.
Tbone
10 July 2011 at 11:05 pm