Topic: Kentucky

Culture & their fat Kentucky home

Beliefnet - 571 days ago
Via The Browser, here's a really good slice-of-life portrait of a small, rural Kentucky town where most people are obese. But it's what goes uncelebrated, and even ignored, here that has become Manchester's defining feature: In an increasingly unhealthy country, it is ...

Scary state-by-state obesity stats

About.com - 633 days ago
Researchers at the Health Resources and Services Administration (a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) published a new study in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine last week, detailing the rates of childhood obesity and overweight in ...