Arkansas no longer state with highest adult obesity rate

[TomSea]

A story was released on obesity rates, every story I saw referenced specific states but the info is still valid.

Arkansas no longer state with highest adult obesity rate

OR health officials conduct their own surveys within the state and found a slightly lower rate, just under 27 percent, in 2014.

The report also found Arkansas had the second-highest percentage of adults in both 2014 and 2015 who reported being physically inactive, meaning they did not exercise outside of performing work duties during the previous 30 days. That would be Louisiana at 36.2 percent.

The report used data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System maintained by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Read More At: http://www.crcconnection.com/2016/09/04/arkansas-no-longer-state-with-highest-adult-obesity-rate.html

Reports often say Memphis is one of the so-called "most obese cities" in the US.

All in all, if states are within say 10% of each other, that's pretty close. Different ways to look at this.

[Smokin Joe]

Sorry, but I have to laugh at their definition of "physically inactive". By that, a guy who sends a ten hour day doing manual labor on a construction crew, goes home and sits in his chair after a shower and dinner and watches TV and doesn't "exercise" qualifies as "physically inactive"! What a hoot!