{"id":1838,"date":"2008-07-13T00:18:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T05:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2010-11-24T00:03:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T05:03:05","slug":"percentage-of-obese-adult-population-by-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/07\/13\/percentage-of-obese-adult-population-by-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Percentage of Obese Adults by State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/07\/misc-obesity-by-state.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1837 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/07\/misc-obesity-by-state.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/07\/misc-obesity-by-state.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nIn thinking about this map, remember that obesity is a social construction and the Body Mass Index (upon which this map is based) is a controversial measure.\u00a0 See this <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/10\/18\/defining-fat\/\" target=\"_self\">really interesting flickr collection<\/a> of people posing with their BMI scores.<\/p>\n<p>I am curious as to your guesses as to what might cause this variation.\u00a0 I know that obesity is related to poverty (because healthy food is more expensive and more difficult to find than unhealthy food).\u00a0 Any other guesses?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Breck C. for the link!\u00a0 Found <a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/05\/297-the-south-shall-snack-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In thinking about this map, remember that obesity is a social construction and the Body Mass Index (upon which this map is based) is a controversial measure.\u00a0 See this really interesting flickr collection of people posing with their BMI scores. I am curious as to your guesses as to what might cause this variation.\u00a0 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[244],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29573,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions\/29573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}