Ohio is fat and oppressed - 2009

--(My ToledoTalk.com "post":http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/39256/Ohio_is_fat_and_oppressed from 2009)--

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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":http://www.fark.com/2007/book/. 

But we cannot look away. We must absorb them.

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

more.

br. Jul 1, 2009 - "Top 10 Worst States For Personal Freedom":http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32504

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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.
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# Maryland
# Illinois
# New York
# Rhode Island
# Ohio
# New Jersey
# Massachusetts
# Alabama
# Georgia
# South Carolina


br. 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.":http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2009/release.php?stateid=OH

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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":http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2009/
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State-by-State Adult Obesity Rankings

The Heftiest 10

# Mississippi (32.5%)
# Alabama (31.2%)
# West Virginia (31.1%) 
# Tennessee (30.2%) 
# South Carolina (29.7%)
# Oklahoma (29.5%)
# Kentucky (29.0%)
# Louisiana (28.9%)
# Michigan (28.8%) 
# (tie) Arkansas (28.6%) and Ohio (28.6%)


br. Here's my "plan":http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/19817#19863 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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