How Healthy Is Your State??

[guster girl]

I knew Texas would be far down the list. I hate that I can't even take a really good deep breath outside. It seems like the colder states are just generally healthier, which makes a lot of sense. I've been to a lot of the northeastern states, and, loved the air there. And, I was in Wisconsin for a week last summer, and, loved it, too. I lived in Washington for two years, and, miss it so much! I'm actually a native South Carolinian, and, I'm not surprised by it's placement, either.

[Lissa]

I'm origanally from Ohio with is 24, but moved here 4 years ago and Michigan is 25. I guess either way I'm right in the middle too. I wonder if you broke the state up, the ones by the water, by beach and nonbeach what the differences would be. I think beach areas would be healthier, less stress, that air coming off the water, hmmm, I wonder.

[Kfamr]

Don't think so Lissa...

Florida rate number 41.

Not surprising either!

[catnapper]

Right in the middle here! Pennsylvania was listed as #24 last year and #26 this year.

[Rottieluver45]

Originally posted by aly
Texas is #43 EEEEPP!!! I gotta move!

Seems like a lot of Southern states are at the bottom of the list.

*sigh* *cough, cough, cough*

[Kater]

Originally posted by Lissa
I wonder if you broke the state up, the ones by the water, by beach and nonbeach what the differences would be. I think beach areas would be healthier, less stress, that air coming off the water, hmmm, I wonder.

Well, Hawaii is #3!

[wolf_Q]

Utah is number 6, woohoo!

[jazzcat]

Originally posted by trayi52
Tennessee is # 36, awful! I have noticed a lot of people die of cancer here.

I know what you mean. I grew up very close to Oak Ridge and now I live on the other side of it and just as close. We joke about how people around here glow in the dark but seriously the cancer deaths are very high here.

What is very scary is one day while my husband was driving to work in Oak Ridge he went past a hill that he passes every day in both directions and had always been a plain green grassy hill but on that day the grass had been rolled back and the entire hill was concrete. He asked around at work and people told him it was were barrels of "waste" were buried. Since it was near the plant that enriched uranium for nuclear weapons you can guess what kind of waste that may be.

No wonder both my parents have had cancer. Wonder what I will have by age 50?

[isis]

North Carolina #30


Not surprising. We do have lots of tobacco in this state.

[ramanth]

Well Michigan did bump up a few notches to 25 from 28.

I guess that should account for something.

But I'm not going to fret... I mean.. look at the criteria.. you can go thru it and find that a lot of things don't apply to you. But you could still die tomorrow or 100 years from now in a car accident caused by someone else.

Just live for the moment.

[Vermontcat]

Vermont is number 2!
I wonder what New Hampshire did in the past year to take over the top spot?
Both states are great anyway, they are very similar.
I have always liked Hawaii too.