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Health See other Health Articles Title: 100 Fattest US Cities Revealed… Looks Like Bad News for Arkansas 100 Fattest US Cities Revealed… Looks Like Bad News for Arkansas By Ben Marquis March 15, 2018 at 2:13pm The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development recently released a report which measured and ranked obesity in member countries around the globe, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the United States was pretty high up on the list. The study, which ran counter to others placing America lower in the rankings, found that roughly 38 percent of U.S. adults were obese or overweight, and with the rate of increase rising sharply, it was projected that more than 45 percent of U.S. adults would be considered obese by the year 2030. The OECD obesity study compelled WalletHub to conduct their own study of obesity in America. The outlet took the 100 most populated metro areas in America and compared them across 18 different metrics subdivided among three key dimensions: obesity and overweight, health consequences, and food and fitness. The obesity and overweight category included such metrics as shares of overweight or obese adults, teenagers and children. Meanwhile, the health consequences category measured shares of high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease. The food and fitness category measured shares of fruit and vegetable consumption, physical activity and access to healthy food, among other things. Coming in at the top of the list and receiving the dubious honor of “fattest” city was the central Arkansas metro area, which includes the cities of Little Rock, North Little Rock and Conway. The Little Rock area wasn’t the only region of Arkansas to be featured on the list. The northwest corner of the state, which includes Fayetteville, Rogers and Springdale, came in at 21 on the list. The Shreveport-Boosier City area of Louisiana came in second, followed by the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission area of southeast Texas in third. Rounding out the top five fattest cites was the Memphis area, which includes parts of Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee, as well as Mobile, Alabama in fifth place. Of those top 100 metro areas, the five that ranked as the least fattest included — in descending order from 100 — Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro in Oregon and Washington; Honolulu, Hawaii; Salt Lake City, Utah; Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Washington; and Colorado Springs, Colorado. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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