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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]

The relationship between SES and obesity is not cut and dry. It seems to be more somewhat more related to educational attainment.

“Similar to results based on data from 2005–2008 (4), during 2011–2014, obesity prevalence was lower in the highest income group among women, but this was not the case among men. In fact, among non-Hispanic black men the prevalence of obesity was higher in the highest income group than in the lowest income group. Both women and men who were college graduates, on the other hand, had lower prevalences of obesity than did persons with less education.

In general, prevalence of obesity among women was lowest among college graduates, although among non-Hispanic Asians there was no difference in prevalence by level of education. This relationship was not seen when obesity was examined by income level. For example, obesity prevalence was lower in the highest income group among non-Hispanic white women, but among non-Hispanic black women, prevalence did not differ between the highest and lowest household income groups. In contrast, among both non-Hispanic black women and non-Hispanic white women, the prevalence of obesity was lower among college graduates than among women with some college. This difference in the relationship between obesity and income and obesity and education has been reported in at least one other study (7) in children. These findings demonstrate that lower levels of income and education are not universally associated with obesity; the association is complex and differs by sex and race/Hispanic origin.”

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6650a1.htm
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