Seattle is the least overweight and obese city in the U.S., according to personal finance site WalletHub.
In a report released March 11, WalletHub determined the most overweight and obese cities in the U.S. The site compared 100 cities across three dimensions: obesity and overweight, health consequences, and food and fitness. These dimensions were evaluated using 19 metrics, including share of overweight adults, share of diabetic adults, and access to parks and recreational facilities. Read more about the methodology here.
McAllen, Texas, is the most obese and overweight city in the U.S., according to an analysis released March 11 by WalletHub, a personal finance website.
It could be their outdoor culture. A mountainous and temperate state, Colorado is well-known for hiking, skiing, and the like. In 2009, 82.3 percent of Coloradans said they'd been physically active within the last month, according to a survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to the most recent Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data, adult obesity rates now exceed 35% in 17 states. West Virginia has the highest adult obesity rate at 41.6% and the District of Columbia has the lowest at 21.5%.
McAllen, a small city on the southern tip of Texas near Mexico, was ranked the most obese in the U.S., followed by Jackson, Mississippi; Shreveport, Louisiana; Mobile, Alabama; and Little Rock, Arkansas, rounding out the top five.
Obesity prevalence was particularly high in the United States, with just over a third of respondents saying that they are obese. In Chile and the United Kingdom rates were just above one in four, while Korea had the lowest share of people with obesity of the countries studied at just 4.3 percent.
In 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported a greater than 40% prevalence of obesity in the U.S. Its prevalence remained significantly higher among adults residing in rural counties (34.2%) compared to those living in urban counties (28.7%) with over one-third of the American population ...
Obesity rates for Asian women (14.8 percent) and men (10.1 percent) are much lower than the rates for the other racial-ethnic groups. The table below highlights these and other selected data on adult obesity from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
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