CrazyFinn
07-18-2009, 06:23 PM
Battle of the bulge
Jul 13th 2009
From Economist.com
Obesity levels in America in 1998 and 2008
IT MAY be time to hide the cookie jar. Over 26% of Americans are obese, with a weight to height ratio (or body mass index) of over 30, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, a government body. Over the past ten years, waistlines have expanded in every state. In 1998 most states had a relatively trim population, with fewer than a fifth of adults obese. But since then the scales have tipped in the other direction. Now at least a quarter of adults in 32 states are obese. Mississippi is the fattest of all, with a third of its residents considered obese.
http://media.economist.com/images/na/2009w29/Obesity.jpg
http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=7933596&story_id=14025441
Jul 13th 2009
From Economist.com
Obesity levels in America in 1998 and 2008
IT MAY be time to hide the cookie jar. Over 26% of Americans are obese, with a weight to height ratio (or body mass index) of over 30, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, a government body. Over the past ten years, waistlines have expanded in every state. In 1998 most states had a relatively trim population, with fewer than a fifth of adults obese. But since then the scales have tipped in the other direction. Now at least a quarter of adults in 32 states are obese. Mississippi is the fattest of all, with a third of its residents considered obese.
http://media.economist.com/images/na/2009w29/Obesity.jpg
http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=7933596&story_id=14025441