Ohio is fat and oppressed - 2009

(My ToledoTalk.com post from 2009)

Ah, the nifty 'Top-Whatever' press releases. "Unpaid placements masquerading as actual articles."

That's how they're described by the book :
It's Not News It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News.

But we cannot look away. We must absorb them.

Ohio is off to a good start for the month of July 2009:

Jul 1, 2009 - Top 10 Worst States For Personal Freedom

Compiled by the Mercatus Center, a nonprofit public policy research center affiliated with George Mason University, using a wide swath of comparative data to determine personal freedoms, including alcohol and drug laws, asset-forfeiture rules, and education regulations.

1. Maryland
2. Illinois
3. New York
4. Rhode Island
5. Ohio
6. New Jersey
7. Massachusetts
8. Alabama
9. Georgia
10. South Carolina

Jul 1, 2009 - New Report Finds Ohio Has 10th Highest Percent of Obese Adults and 15th Highest Percent of Obese and Overweight Children in the U.S.

Ohio has the 10th highest rate of adult obesity in the nation, at 28.6 percent and the 15th highest of overweight youths (ages 10-17) at 33.3 percent, according to a new report by Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Adult obesity rates increased in 23 states and did not decrease in a single state in the past year, according to F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America 2009

State-by-State Adult Obesity Rankings

The Heftiest 10

1. Mississippi (32.5%)
2. Alabama (31.2%)
3. West Virginia (31.1%)
4. Tennessee (30.2%)
5. South Carolina (29.7%)
6. Oklahoma (29.5%)
7. Kentucky (29.0%)
8. Louisiana (28.9%)
9. Michigan (28.8%)
10. (tie) Arkansas (28.6%) and Ohio (28.6%)

Here's my plan to reduce obesity.

And while we're at it, may as well do something for Mother Earth. Vegetarianism: The most effective tool against global warming.

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