What Happens When Americans Eat What They Tweet
If Americans eat what they tweet, a new series of maps explains why certain U.S. states have a higher percentage of obese people than others. WHAT THE MOST OBESE US STATES TWEET ABOUT MOST Mississippi: cake, eating West Virginia: cookies, watching TV Louisiana: chocolate, eating Arkansas: chocolate, eating Oklahoma: chocolate, running For eight months, University […]
This US Epidemic Keeps Getting Worse
Americans are fatter than ever. The U.S. obesity rate climbed to 27.7 percent in 2014, up from 27.1 percent in 2013, and significantly higher than the 25.5 percent recorded in 2008, when Gallup first began tracking obesity. “With roughly 250 million American adults, a couple of percentage points means there’s over 5 million more people […]
This Epidemic Will Strike 1/3 of Americans by 2050
Almost 30 million people in the United States have diabetes and if the current trends continue, one in three American adults will suffer from the condition by 2050, according to the American Diabetes Association. A new chart shows that, between 2004 and 2012, the prevalence of diabetes increased in almost every U.S. county nationwide except […]
America Has a Weight Problem, But We’re Working on it
Many Americans kicked off 2015 with a pledge to lose weight over the next 12 months and U.S. obesity statistics suggest that’s a worthy goal for residents in every U.S. state. The fattest states in America, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), are Mississippi–where 35.1 percent of adults are obese–and West Virginia (35.1%) […]