As a group we tend to talk about how gross girls in DC-MD-VA are. But every statistic I've come across always points to the DC area as having the lowest obesity rates, highest gym attendance, etc. In this study, DC is next to last after Colorado in adult obesity:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/230780.php
Obviously it's easy to hide the fat in these numbers since it includes the male population as well, across all ages, etc. And 21% is still horrible number. But here is something I was surprised to see - in 1990, DC had the #2 obesity rate in the country at 14%. It has only increased 6% over the past 20 years while the 50 states have exploded...http://healthyamericans.org/assets/files...nFat10.pdf
What do you make of this? The data set could be refined better for purposes of finding areas that have not been taken over by fatties if it drilled down to 18-30 year old female demographic. Breaking it down by metro area / zip code wouldn't be bad either...
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/230780.php
Obviously it's easy to hide the fat in these numbers since it includes the male population as well, across all ages, etc. And 21% is still horrible number. But here is something I was surprised to see - in 1990, DC had the #2 obesity rate in the country at 14%. It has only increased 6% over the past 20 years while the 50 states have exploded...http://healthyamericans.org/assets/files...nFat10.pdf
What do you make of this? The data set could be refined better for purposes of finding areas that have not been taken over by fatties if it drilled down to 18-30 year old female demographic. Breaking it down by metro area / zip code wouldn't be bad either...