http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2004/08/the-fat-people-live-in-another-state/ You'll laugh you ass off. (I did.) Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:51:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2004/08/the-fat-people-live-in-another-state/comment-page-1/#comment-90 JudyZ Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:31:09 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=40#comment-90 This made me laugh because to a certain extent most of the obese people do live in another state. I was at a presentation last year where the displayed the trend in obesity based on state from 1975 to 2005. As expected the numbers and number of colours (percentage of population with a BMI over 30) kept increasing. The southeastern states were always higher than anything else and Louisianan and Georgia always led the way with new colours. In 2005 they were planning to introduce a new colour (I think 40% of population with a BMI over 30) for Louisiana; however, because of Hurricane Katrina and the relocation of people who were predominantly from lower socioeconomic groups the percentage of Louisiana residents with BMIs over 30 went down and the percentages in surrounding states went up.

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