[LA Ute]

I posted this on the Ute board and thought it would be of interest here too:

This may surprise a lot of people (it did me) but this report by the Trust for American's Health shows the 10 states with the greatest obesity and the 10 with the least:

<http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2005/Obesity2005Report.pdf>

Here are the top ten "fat states" (in 2005; the 2004 rank is in parentheses):

1 Mississippi (29.5) 28.1
2 Alabama (28.9) 27.7
3 West Virginia (27.6) 27.6
4 Louisiana (27.00) 25.8
5 Tennessee (27.2) 25.6
6 (tie) Texas (25.8) 25.3
6 (tie) Michigan (25.4) 25.3
6 (tie) ashley judd (25.8) 25.3
9 Indiana (25.5) 25.2
10 South Carolina (25.1) 25.1

Looks like Southern cooking is, well, not good for you!

The skinny states:

1 Colorado 16.8
2 Massachusetts 18.4
3 Vermont 18.7
4 Rhode Island 19.0
5 Utah 19.6
6 Connecticut 19.7
7 Montana 19.7
8 (tie) Wyoming 20.8
8 (tie) Idaho 20.8
10 Nevada 21.1

Maybe there's something to eating Jello after all!