Memphis wins the competition, but:
Had we included every area on the list, the smaller cities of
Huntington, W.V., and Ashland, Ohio, on the West Virginia, Kentucky and
Ohio state borders would have far outpaced every city on the list with
obesity rates of 45%. Of the 50 cities we did rank, Boston entered
last, with only 19%.
Here is the full story. Residents of San Antonio are the most likely to patronize fast food restaurants, with an average (or is it median?) of 20 fast food days a month. I’ll note that Latino fast food is better than average and it involves a smaller health penalty, relative to the non-fast food. Here are photos of the most obese American cities, though oddly they show the buildings far more than the people. Would an article about tall or wide buildings show only the people? Could they not find heavy people? Or do they think we simply don’t want to look at them?
…so these heavily reported “statistics” on American geographical obesity rates ‘might’ be a little erroneous ?
Duh.
A brief look at the reported statistical methodology is enough to ignore all the media hype on this “story”…. and any serious discussion of its supposed societal implications
These obesity rankings were compiled from a very limited, non-random sample of self-reported data collected by uncontrolled telephone calls. Get that… casual phone calls to a slapdash selection of people and totally relying on these people to honestly state their weight & height — then mindlessly expanding this bogus sample to apply to vast populations of Americans.
Objective basis for these obesity ‘facts’ does not exist. Of course, the American media never let facts get in the way of a good story.
It’s like spitting into the wind to ask but: what business is it of government’s how fat we are?
“what business is it of government’s how fat we are?”
negative externalities.
“Would an article about tall or wide buildings show only the people? Could they not find heavy people? Or do they think we simply don’t want to look at them?”
Nah, not at all, I think the pictures were just to pad out the article (no pun intended). It looks like those are all stock photos, most of them Shutterstock (no royalties). If you go there and search for each of the cities, the pictures in the article are usually one of the first few hits. (The Memphis picture is the exception, thanks to Egypt and Graceland)
“I’ll note that Latino fast food is better than average and it involves a smaller health penalty, relative to the non-fast food.”
What exactly is that supposed to mean? Is there a reference?
You have to go all the way to San Diego at #10 or thereabouts to see any mention of race or ethnicity. Clearly, however, race is a contributing factor; blacks and Hispanics have higher rates of obesity than whites, and many of the high-ranking cities have substantial minority populations.
> > what business is it of government’s how fat we are?
> negative externalities.
What are those? Manufactured by government?
AZ, sorry if I wasn’t clear that by saying “we all know that BMI is used as a proxy,” I only meant those of us reading this post, not the general public, are familiar with the issues because it seems that every time obesity comes up on the blog, we read the same (not inaccurate, but not highly significant when taken across the entire population) criticisms of BMI and people rush to demonstrate how some particular person or persons with high muscularity are deemed “overweight” using the BMI methodology and so forth. It gets kind of tedious after a while.
I’m looking for a source but I’m pretty certain that I’ve read the opposite about Latino fast food. Perhaps it was specifically about Mexican fast food.
Peter: Re: the ethnic component. It may be that obesity afflicts blacks and hispanics at higher rates. However if you think this is a not a problem for white folks too, then you haven’t been to the South. Take a look in any Wal-Mart down here.
> > > what business is it of government’s how fat we are?
> > negative externalities.
> What are those? Manufactured by government?
Um, because it’s welfare reducing because fat people are less pleasant to look at? Seriously, though, I’ve never seen such a patronizing article in Forbes. The word “crisis” is used about twenty times too many.
any attempts to analyse these rates against education levels?
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