The Fattening of America - Visualized

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The Atlantic has a great piece on obesity in America from 1985 through 2010 (FWIW, "obese" basically tends to translate to "BMI > 30".
Whats particularly bad though is that there are no states w/ obesity rates below 15%.
Ouch.

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