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Exactly this. It is astounding how extreme the difference can be sometimes. You'll be in a major coastal city and it seems like everyone is relatively trim, wor
by thinkharderdev 6y ago
Exactly this. It is astounding how extreme the difference can be sometimes. You'll be in a major coastal city and it seems like everyone is relatively trim, works out religiously and wouldn't touch a fast food hamburger. Then you go to the midwest or the south and it seems like everyone you see is overweight/obese, subsists on a diet of fast food and smokes cigarettes. I'm shocked just noticing the number of people walking around smoking cigarettes when I get out of East Coast metro areas. I literally don't know anyone where I live who smoked anymore and rarely see anyone smoking on the street.
- MiddleEndian 6y agoIt's not JUST regional differences though. In 1990, the state with the consistently highest obesity rate, Mississippi, only had 15% of the population obese. Colorado, the leanest state, surpassed that in 2003 with 16% and got up to 23.8% obese in 2019. As of 2019, Mississippi has climbed up to 40.8%. I imagine in a decade or two Colorado will catch up, assuming no systematic changes. Source: https://stateofchildhoodobesity.org/adult-obesity/ https://stateofchildhoodobesity.org/adult-obesity/
- thinkharderdev 6y agoRight, there is definitely a broader change going on but I also don't think looking at state level data really invalidates the urban/rural variance divide. To take Colorado as an example, you see the same sort of divide I mentioned when you go from Boulder/Denver to rural Western Colorado (especially in the southwest in and around the reservations).