Saturday, June 11, 2011
Health Insurance in Tennessee: Helping to Defeat Obesity
Based on 2007, 2008 and 2009, Tennessee was the second worst state in the nation for obesity among adults. Only Mississippi was rated worse than Tennessee's 31.6 percent ranking.A 2010 report from the Trust for America' Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has now confirmed Tennessee as the second worst state for obesity.Far from being benign, obesity is among the key risk factors contributing to a growing epidemic of type 2 diabetes. According to the manager of the Step ONE obesity prevention program, John Bilderback, children as young as five have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. That disease had been known as "adult-onset" diabetes.Obesity Highest in States with Epidemics of Type 2 DiabetesThe link between diabetes
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