[CTREInvestor]

https://experience.arcgis.com/experi...?views=view_26

If you zoom in, you can see nationwide, health is very much tied to wealth. But only Connecticut and Rhode Island have no counties with high obesity rates.

[Mikala43]

Originally Posted by CTREInvestor

https://experience.arcgis.com/experi...?views=view_26

If you zoom in, you can see nationwide, health is very much tied to wealth. But only Connecticut and Rhode Island have no counties with high obesity rates.

Hawaii

[Reilly1017]

Vermont is pretty good too, the two VT counties with “higher” rates (the next color) have such small populations (75,000 people total in two counties)

[kidyankee764]

Originally Posted by CTREInvestor

https://experience.arcgis.com/experi...?views=view_26

If you zoom in, you can see nationwide, health is very much tied to wealth. But only Connecticut and Rhode Island have no counties with high obesity rates.

But in terms of population, populated areas like San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami/Fort Lauderdale/West Palm Beach, and Denver have equally low obesity rates. Smaller urban states have an unfair advantage when solely comparing states solely due to their tiny size.

Perspective.

[mdovell]

Sometimes it's harder to predict because there can be so many home gym. When covid had last year Jim shut down in the price of any for gym equipment and waste skyrocketed exponentially. Equipment that was free on Craigslist was suddenly hundreds of dollars. Now it's changed at gyms have reopened. But I'll be city is part of being tied to health and also mean access with food and walkability. It's easy to encourage people to go outside and walk but if there's no street lights and there's no sidewalk that makes it much harder

[CTartist]

Originally Posted by CTREInvestor

https://experience.arcgis.com/experi...?views=view_26

If you zoom in, you can see nationwide, health is very much tied to wealth. But only Connecticut and Rhode Island have no counties with high obesity rates.

It is good that CT has low obesity rates compared to the rest of the country. But we are still up near 30% and that is too high. The south and mid west are ticking time bomb of illness.

I keep thinking why doesn't our government do anything about this? The food supply in this country is a disgrace and the prevalence of fast food restaurants is mind boggling.

Wealth and walkability is a good combination. Manhattan is under 20%. Look at this vintage clip from Manhattan. You can tell about 99% of the people have perfect BMI's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwMNuWSAaO4

According to this site CT is 11th lowest at 29.1.
https://stateofchildhoodobesity.org/adult-obesity

[davwve]

Would have been nice if they also tied in a correlated view with education.


The obesity (and food options & portion sizes) in this country are always a stark contrast when I return from extended intl travel.