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West Virginia is so obese they don't even get a number. 

Those mountain mamas birth 'em BIG.

West Virginia is so obese they don't even get a number. 

40.6%

And unsurprisingly, the map for the popularity of diabetes juice aka sweet tea has a strong correlation to the map for obesity...

But man, good for California and Florida.  Everyone should move there!

California ranks higher in taxes than we do.

I still don't understand how Colorado is such an outlier.

I mean, everyone in Colorado seems to love the mountains and outdoors... But why would that be different than Utah, or Wyoming, or Idaho?

Doesn't make a ton of sense to me. I'm sure there's a good explanation; I just don't know what it is.

Plus they all smoke so much weed, you'd figure the munchies rate would be pretty high...

I still don't understand how Colorado is such an outlier.

I mean, everyone in Colorado seems to love the mountains and outdoors... But why would that be different than Utah, or Wyoming, or Idaho?

Doesn't make a ton of sense to me. I'm sure there's a good explanation; I just don't know what it is.

My best guess is some kind of correlation between left-leaners and better diets.  Utah, Wyoming, and Idaho have more right-leaning populations, and in my anecdotal experience, the hippie-libs tend to have more focus on diet and superior restraint in that department.  My father-in-law and his wife live in Colorado, and they definitely fit that bill. 

This is based on zero evidence or research whatsoever, and correlation is not necessarily causation.  As CD pointed out, there's the cities vs. rural thing, and that also corresponds to left and right-leaners.  Multi-collinearity, we call that in nerd stats.