Obesity Trends per CDC

[liveonearth]

http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html

You can check out the progress of America's increasing BMI by state, since 1985, on this govt page. The South leads the charge.

Comments

[bobby1933]

There are no "blue" states! Colorado people are the thinnest in the country. Obesity in the "rust belt" and in the South may be related to poverty? Nevada, i attribute to "life style" the other "red" states are a puzzle to me. Perhaps,as one doctor has suggested, BMI (and therefore obesity) is only an indirect and fallible indicator of poor health.

[liveonearth]

BMI is actually not a reliable indicator of obesity either, as people who are heavily muscled are considered overweight or obese when in fact they may just be strong. So it is a vague indicator at best.

Still, if you go to the side and let it scroll through the years (1985 to 2010) the trend is steady and nationwide: we're getting heavier relative to our height, and I for one don't see a trend toward more muscle.

scrolling

[bobby1933]

Thanks for the heads up. That's incredible!!
Now even Colorado has gone "yellow."

Re: scrolling

[liveonearth]

Yep, no blue left. We be fatties.