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WASHINGTON - Obesity rates rose last year in every state but Oregon, according to an advocacy group that called on the government and the private sector to get more involved in Americans' battle with expanding waistlines.
The advocacy group, Trust for America's Health, said data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that the percentage of obese adults for 2002-04 stood at 22.7 percent nationally. The percentage for the previous cycle, 2001-03, was 22 percent.
The state exhibiting the largest increase in obesity was Alabama. There, the rate increased 1.5 percentage points to 27.7 percent. Oregon's rate held steady at 21 percent. ycle, 2001-03, was 22 percent.
BIGGEST INCREASES
Alabama 1.5
Florida 1.4
North Dakota 1.4
Maine 1.3
Tennessee 1.3
SMALLEST INCREASES
Oregon 0.0
California 0.1
Delaware 0.1
Idaho 0.1
Michigan 0.1
Oregon has one of the smallest increases... surprise!
That wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that we are the third highest unemployment state in the nation and a lot of us are taxed poor
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Actually, no. As I've noted elsewhere, this anomaly has nothing to do with Oregon's unemployment nor its poverty.
In a positive note for the state, it appears that rampant methamphetamine has some beneficial effects after all: Oregon is cited as the only state in the USA where obesity is not, um, gaining.
So you see: the approach of Diane Linn and Sheriff Bernie are really working in our favor, because people with no teeth can't eat meat (hey, this plays into the popular "vegan" theme, as well!). We are so progressive that we've stumbled on a way to beat that scourge of obesity.
Just keep the jails closed, folks, so the tweakers can keep doing their thing.
So very true!
I was wondering why there was a rapid upswing in cosmetic dental surgery in Oregon.
you are 100% correct. It is much easier to make new laws than it is to enforce the ones that are already on the books.
see no evil, hear no evil, then tax the evil.
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