Healthiest States in America Named By ABC News

[ProblemAgain]

might be related to that poorly educated post as well...

Healthiest States in America Named

By ABC News | ABC News Blogs – 

For the fourth year in a row, Vermont takes the top spot as healthiest state. Applauding the state's high rate of high school graduation and low rate of uninsured population, the report also finds that Vermont is not without its problems. Vermonters have a relatively high rate of cancer deaths and participate in binge drinking more than most states (Wisconsiners binge drink the most, Tennesseans the least). Vermont is in good company in the northeast with seven states from the region making it into the top 10.

Second place goes to Hawaii, a regular contender for first place. Since the ranking started in 1990, Hawaii has consistently ranked in the top six states. Hawaiians enjoy low rates of obesity and smoking, but have high rates of binge drinking and low birth weight babies.

Louisiana and Mississippi are tied for the least healthy state and have consistently been at the bottom of the list for the past 23 years. Both states have low rates of binge drinking, but suffer from high rates of occupational fatalities and children in poverty. These two states are in the bottom five in about half of the 24 components that make up the overall ranking, including high rates of chronic conditions like sedentary lifestyle, obesity and diabetes.

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/vermont-tops-list-healthiest-s...

and a related site...

http://www.americashealthrankings.org/Rankings

[LoveLife&Laughter]

I won't leave CA, but two of my favorite states VT & HI.

[ProblemAgain]

one of them especially during the winter....might be an IQ thing...

[LoveLife&Laughter]

I'm confused, I like both of them in the winter.

[P.A.]

Well at least we don't have much binge drinking but think maybe they left out The University of Tennessee. I know from experience a lot of binge drinking occurs there.

[exedir]

But then again who has the most fun, really.  And yes, Euell Gibbons is still dead no matter how many nuts and twigs he ate.  The question is ultimately life styles which goes to what choices people make and choices they make within the context of where and how they live and live around.  Certainly the 1%  can choose to live healthy but what about the rest, is something imposed by economic circumstances?  Probably.  

The ongoing reality series of Newark's mayor, Cory Booker, showed he had a hard time living on food stamps or at least, he had a hard time making the point that choices are harder when you have to make them with less.    

So what does make us unhealthy?  Is just the genes, the places we live, the amount of income we have to spend or is it the choices we make, or don't make that causes us and the people around us to be healthy or unhealthy.  And if so, is that any fun? 

[LoveLife&Laughter]

Tying food stamps to the black mayor of black Newark is not nice, especially since most food stamps go to rural white republicans according to statistics I have seen.