Vermont is Healthiest State

Filed in archive Obesity on December 3, 2008

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Mississipi used to be the most obese State in the U.S. Now it has been trumped by Louisiana while Vermont is now called the healthiest state based on obesity and smoking rates.

Louisiana has displaced Mississippi as the unhealthiest U.S. state and other Southern states were close rivals due to high obesity and smoking rates in new rankings that deemed Vermont the healthiest.

The overall health of Americans remained static for a fourth year, according to an annual report issued on Wednesday assessing a series of measures also including binge drinking, health insurance coverage, air pollution, infectious disease rates, crime levels and immunization coverage.

In the said ranking, Southern states are ranked near the bottom. I'm saying it again: must all that southern food!