The five states with the fittest children: mainly blue.

[Kat45]

Connecticut
New York
Vermont
Massachusetts
Missouri

Imagine that! The top 4 states with the fittest children are in the Northeast, you know, the states our national administration hates, nice blue states!

I apologize for not having a link. I heard this story on my local news, and I believe it was a study from the publication "Child."

[DS1]

1. Must be all the snow shoveling

;-)

[democracyindanger]

2. What's really surprising is no western states

[xmas74]

3. If Missouri has some of the fittest children

what does that say about the rest of the country? I see some pretty unhealthy children here every day.

[Shakespeare]

4. That likely has more to do with economics than with any kind of virtue.

Lots more poverty, lots more rural folks in the red states. That almost always equals poor diet, unfortunately.

It's very sad, if you ask me.

[4_Legs_Good]

5. How bad is California?

I'd figure the temperate weather would lend itself to more outdoor activity all year round.

I guess that makes us lazy, though.

david

[Squeech]

6. Remarkable

I think it's because we don't have moon pies.

Although how to explain Missouri?

[Arugula Latte]

7. I would have guessed Colorado

because some study not too long ago said Coloradans were the most fit in the country.

Missouri? That one floored me.