It just keeps getting worse
obesity, diet, exercise, hiking, bicycling
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Obesity rates just keep rising in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control have announced.
According to the Centers' weekly morbidity and mortality report, more than a quarter of Americans admitted to being obese in a 2007 survey. That represented an increase of 1.6 percentage points since the last survey in 2005.
Even worse, in some southern states, the obesity rate was as high as 30 percent. It seems that southern cooking with its emphasis on fried foods is really taking its toll.
At the other end of the spectrum, Coloradans can pat themselves on the back for perennially having the lowest obesity rate, 19 percent. Evidently with all that gorgeous Rocky Mountain scenery to hike through and lots of bike trails, people in Colorado are motivated to get off their butts and exercise.
Let's hope that the rising cost of gas will have a bright side: Maybe people will have an incentive to leave the car home and walk or ride their bicycles more. Dare we hope?
Here's a link to the CDC report:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5728a1.htm
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on 7/18/2008
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