Where Does Your State Fall on the CDC‘s Latest ’Fat Map’?
- Posted on August 14, 2012 at 2:41pm by
Liz Klimas
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The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention has released data from its latest survey tracking obesity statistics with participants self-reporting their body weight. It has curated this information into a color-coded map, which i09 calls a “fat map.”
Overall, more than a third of adults are obese but rates vary by state. The latest figures are based on a 2011 telephone survey that asked adults their height and weight. For the first time, households with only cell phones were included.
(Image: CDC screenshot)
Here’s some of the regional distribution according to the report.
- By state, obesity prevalence ranged from 20.7% in Colorado to 34.9% in Mississippi in 2011. No state had a prevalence of obesity less than 20%. 39 states had a prevalence of 25% or more; 12 of these states had a prevalence of 30% or more: Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia.
- The South had the highest prevalence of obesity (29.5%), followed by the Midwest (29.0%), the Northeast (25.3%) and the West (24.3%).
These newer figures, according to the report, establish a new baseline for obesity rates as there were changes to the exclusion criteria. For this reason, the statistics cannot be compared to obesity data from previous years.
The CDC still includes obesity data over the last few decades for “historical information only” on its website. It even has an animated map to show the changes in obesity statistics from 1985 through 2010. Below are screenshots from a few of the years showing the changes in the country’s body mass index.
(Image: CDC screenshot)
(Image: CDC screenshot)
(Image: CDC screenshot)
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Comments (71)
searching for the Truth
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 4:12pmWhat about a fat paycheck ?
Report Post »PALEHORSE
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 4:09pmHow the heck did Hawaii rate that low? Did they only talk to turists?
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 4:13pmI was really laughing hard on that one.
Report Post »ccprotect
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 5:50pmYou are right. I vacationed one time in Hawaii and visited the local HD shop to buy a shirt and they had no large size shirts on the rack, so I asked if they had any large in the shirt I wanted and what I was told was “most men around this area do not wear anything smaller than a XX so we don’t stock large” really!
Report Post »one.dakine.howlie
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 5:53pmHave you ever actually spent time in Hawai’i? Most people in Hawai‘i aren’t obese like you see in the states. Generally Polynesians are just thick-boned people so they look bigger than the average American. On top of that the men have more muscle than the average American male. Hawai‘i would be lower in obesity percentages if it wasn’t for the women there. It‘s the women that you’ll more likely see overweight in Hawai’i.
Report Post »ScottYaw
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 4:06pmI question anything and everything any government agency claims. The CDC has Obama’s agenda. Why would anyone with half a brain believe them and why does this matter?
Report Post »N2Oyster
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:53pmYet, in Colorado they keep running an add claiming 1 out of 2 Coloradans as overweight or obese…
Report Post »AngryDwarf
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 5:15pmIf it wasn’t for the micro-breweries popping up on every street corner (not a bad thing BTW), Co. would be under 20%. Discount the FR and you end up with a lot of thin, in-shape people.
Report Post »jjufon
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:50pmkids still had recess and PE was required before 85…
Report Post »normalmom
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 4:09pmAnd no where near as many cheap video game systems, computers, far less TV stations. All this stuff adds up fast.
Report Post »XaviorOnassis
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 4:37pm85 was also the year they started adding high fructose corn syrup to sodas instead of cane sugar. If you look at the per capita consumption of soft drinks, it is higher in those red states than anywhere else. People drink it instead of water all day long. Sick, really.
(Do I think things need to be banned, no…but parents need to wake up and be responsible for their children and to provide a better example of how to eat/drink/be healthy. If they don’t, the cycle will never be broken. People need to learn to cook again–with real, unprocessed ingredients. It is a matter of survival.)
Report Post »Black Manta
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:43pmEveryone is so damn fat for the simple fact that, every where you go, you can buy a damn triple burger with bacon, a chicken cutlet, chili sause, four kinds of cheese, you name it, you can find it…GOOD O’ AMERICA…..Home of fat people and LIARS…..
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:38pmJust another thing – you guy‘s haven’t tried to get cheap insurance rates yet have you ?
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:35pmJust be glad ( notice I didn’t say happy ) you don’t have to wear a hijab – yet !
Report Post »Mainer forever
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:43pmI know!!! Gross right? Sweat to death in the summer and just gross!!!
Report Post »saranda
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:35pmPretty amazing correlation to the political map. Gluttony?
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 4:09pmYou mean like Utah?
Report Post »saranda
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 6:22pmIs Utah still a state?
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:35pmThe BMI scale is what they use, which is very faulty since it doesn’t measure body fat.
Report Post »normalmom
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 4:04pmYou are right it will tell you that a muscular no fat on the body athlete is obese, it doesn’t acknowledge muscle weighs more than fat.
Report Post »Hrothgar
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 12:14amIt must be noted that the increase in the fatness of Nevada is due in part to the awesome variety of buffets at the casinos. The only place where you can get all the food groups on one plate for 12.99.
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:31pmThe fat belongs to the Lord – so I guess you guys are in trouble.
Report Post »skiz
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:31pmWho cares?
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:29pmWait a minute – what happened to that Island that the politician said was sinking because of people.
Report Post »Mainer forever
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:45pmThat was some idiot congressman..not sure where from…thought the country of Guam would tip over and fall into the ocean. Who votes for these people?
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:55pmI’m still wondering about the pots and pans- sexual !
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:28pmYet, the lunatic fringe leftists will tell you a higher percentage of poor people are starving with each passing year. How do these people get away with such lies? The number one determinant of wealth in a country is obesity – always has been.
Fat, fat, fat!!! I look at the average woman nowadays and I wonder how this country continues to pro create. It’s mind-boggling!
How can parents not teach their kids self-control and moderation? Yeah, right, who am I kidding?!?!?
Report Post »Dumpster Baby
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 4:13pmYet when the first lady recommends it it’s “OMG SHE‘S TRYIN’ TO TAKE MY BIG MAC!”
Report Post »TrueSoundsOfLiberty
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 9:33pm@Hause
Real the full article here http://naturalhealthdossier.com/2011/04/the-economics-of-obesity-why-are-poor-people-fat/
Professor and obesity researcher, Dr. Adam Drewnowski set out to determine why income is the most reliable predictor of obesity in the U.S. To do this, he took a hypothetical dollar to the grocery store. His goal was to purchase as many calories as possible per dollar.
What he found is that he could buy well over 1,000 calories of cookies or potato chips. But his dollar would only buy 250 calories of carrots. He could buy almost 900 calories of soda… but only 170 calories of orange juice.
If you are poor and hungry, you are obviously going to buy the cheapest calories you can find. And in today’s world, the cheapest calories come from junk foods – whether those foods are found at the grocery store, the gas station, or in the fast food restaurant, conveniently located just down the street.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:27pmHow could California not be on there? There are a LOT of fat Mexican women there.
Report Post »And Ohio, where I live, it’s the fatties that use up ALL the handicap parking and take ALL the handicap scooters.
OhioRifleman
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 4:13pmI vote ‘Quoted for TRUTH’ on Anonymous. At any given time in Ohio, I estimate roughly one of three legal handicapped parkings is simply a fatarse that would otherwise be hale and not need the handicap spots.
Still and all, I prefer Ohio women over my prior residence of Chicago. Good Gods, do I prefer Ohio women over Chicago.
Report Post »Hrothgar
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 10:51amIf you are overweight maybe the ideal “handicap” parking spot should be the furthest from the doors.
Report Post »KingDork
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:20pmin southern california we have a vast amount of obese people but majority of them are illegals so doubt they would answer the phone, let alone do a survey.
Report Post »bdandsl
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:14pmMy fat is my business!
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:11pmI’ve been living on Perrier water and sugar free lemon drops for weeks now
Report Post »and I still have not lost any weight.
The blaze must be fattening.
Oh, I did have a few chicken salad sandwiches from Chick-fil-a. Even saved the receipts and laminated them. Is that excessive ?
progressiveslayer
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:09pmMochelle has her menu for us serfs to choose from,the state will make everyone equal come hell or high water. Same goes for housing,everyone will own a house weather you can afford it or not,the edict has been handed down from the Marxist POS and his statist wife.
Report Post »QuincySmith
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:18pmSlayer;
You apparently have not heard of Agenda 21. No one will own homes (except elites), but we will all have small apartments.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:29pmYes I’ve heard of it and the globalists are working toward a one world government,they haven‘t completed their task so I’m just referring to the present day Marxist regime currently oppressing us.
Report Post »Mainer forever
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:07pmThere are a “wicked lot” of Fatties up here in Maine….(me included) Not proud of it….just stating a fact.
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:45pmAnd you can find most of them wandering around in Walmart!!!!
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:03pm…
Report Post »I’m moving to one of the “tub-of-lard” states, and join up with the eaters.
I LOVE TO EAT, and Moochelle is not going to put me on a lettuce diet.
Mainer forever
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:37pmLobster is only $3.29 a pound right now…..come on up!!! (cheaper than some steaks and or chicken)
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:46pm@LeadNotFollow
Yes, it is your constitutional right to die of diabetes. Go patriotism!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 2:57pmFreedom…. is about letting people do… whatever they want.
Fascism…. is about regulating people!
Report Post »cratic3947
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 2:56pmThe changed the definition of obese in the 90′s. Before that it was only those bed stuck types.
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 2:53pmDon’t mess with Texas!
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 2:47pmI don’t know about you southerners, but us Michiganders generally need our insulation.
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