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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This I definitely believe. Once I leave the DMV area, I end up looking downright skinny with my 5'4" 170 lb body. [/quote]
I'm originally from the Bay Area, grew up in Socal coastal area, and when I moved to the DC area we went to a fair, and omg... I was shocked at how there were so many obese people.

Large metro areas tend to have less obese people. Once you get out of the large metro areas, it's really shocking.

[img]http://ecograph.net/img/obesity_map.jpg[/img]

[img]https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/assets/3747-15668/obesity-prevalence-by-census-region.jpg[/img][/quote]

I don’t know why this map is labeled as metro vs rural.  It looks to me like there are a lot of rural areas out west with low obesity rates.

[b]Frankly, it looks like there are higher rates of obesity where black and Hispanic people live.[/b]  Maybe that is because all of our initial data on creating the BMI comes from white men in the 1950’s.  [/quote]

That is not surprising. SES and obesity go together like cheeseburger and fries. [/quote]

Yes.  It’s a hell of a lot easier to get ahead of you are white and thin.  But neither of those things makes you special or morally superior.  Sorry.  [/quote]

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