Top 10 Least Obese U.S. States

I think 1 in 3 Americans is obese. Not just fat. Obese. That's horrifying. It's an epidemic, and it needs more attention. It drives up the costs of health care and other social safety net programs.

Interesting how 1/3 of Americans are obese, yet around 13% of Americans have "food insecurity," which doesn't necessarily mean they're dying of starvation, moreso that they may only eat once a day or every other day.

I blame too much convenience food, too little sleep, too much TV, too much self-indulgence with junk food, and too much computer and phone time, sitting on our backsides taking online quizzes or gaming when we should be working or actively playing (or getting a good night's sleep). Grandma and Grandpa worked from before sun up to past sun down, raising food, cooking and preparing that food (no fast food alternatives), cleaning and maintaining their home and property (without riding lawnmowers or power vacuums), caring for animals, and then getting a good night's sleep. If they ate sweets it was only a small piece of cake or candy as a treat. They practiced the principle of delayed gratification without even realizing it, and depended on themselves to do whatever needed to be done. Hmmm, I've just shamed myself into getting off the computer and getting busy. Bye y'all.

Thanks for that QM, I'd almost forgotten how much fun it was to watch that man run.

While BMI as a metric is pretty invalid if you lift, most people don't lift

Hmm.... plastic hormone disruptors or the fact that we don't walk anywhere anymore, have power tools to do our most basic functions, and eat like pigs?

Occam's Razor.

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The highest BMI states correlated pretty well with the poorest states (7 were on both lists). I haven't checked how this one correlates with the richest states, but I expect there might be some overlap.

Massachusetts, Hawaii, Connecticut, New Hampshire, California. So 5 states on least obese and richest both.

I so much disagree with your assessment. People on welfare are the fattest and unhealthiest demographic in America, and state sponsored medicine does not have a positive impact on obesity and fitness.

I'm a 4th generation CO native (19bmi haha), and grew up in a Colorado that was conservative. It only became liberal very recently due to a massive influx of Cali*****ans moving here, and bringing the same politics that destroyed their own state.

@DanielCO citations are very much needed for your first paragraph

Take a look at Nauru and you'll see how obese the Pacific is. (Although not all countries are that fat)

Most of Colorado (in terms of area) is not liberal. If you drive anywhere outside the Denver/Boulder metro area (plus I-70 corridor, Fort Collins, Durango, etc.), you might as well be in Wyoming, especially if you go east. As a state, it's usually pretty purple and way too big a generalization to say that the cultures of Colorado and Wyoming are "very, very different." Boebert represents the third district, for God's sake.

I'm optimistic that there are some cultural differences, that will keep obesity in Europe below America (regulation, transportation), but the reason for the increase are certainly prominent everywhere.