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Look, there are lots of things to love about the South. It’s clean and quiet. There’s delicious food, good people and often amazing weather. But that’s exactly why it makes us so sad to think about all the ways in which the region is struggling today.
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In the map above, red shading indicates a poverty rates between 17.9 and 22.8 percent. Orange indicates 15.9 to 17.8 percent; light orange, 12.2-15.8 percent; pale yellow, 9 to 12.1 percent. As you can see, there’s a lot of high-poverty red in the South.
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October 4, 2012
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American Obesity, Environment, government, Health, Healthy Living News, medicine, Obesity, Obesity Rates, Obesity Rates By State, politics, Science, Slideexpand, State Obesity, State-Obesity-Rankings, Video
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By now, America’s weight problem is well established: more than 35 percent of adults across the country are considered obese, with a BMI greater than or equal to 30. That’s more than 78 million people.
But how do those numbers shake out by state? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently mapped out the percentage of obese Americans by state using 2011 data, finding that greater percentages of obese people tend to reside in the south.
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Least Obese State : Colorado. 20.7% of adults in Colorado were reported as being obese.
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