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http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/sn ... 9195.story

I'm not a Lexington local, but I don't really see it.

Talk amongst yourselves.

if you are a Kentucky local, you'd be hard to miss it. This state is pathetically obese and loves its tobacco.

I'm wondering if they rank Lexington based on the state population as a whole. When I lived in Lexington during grad school, the population looked about the same as everywhere else, yet Kentucky was always in the top five (or bottom five, depending how you look at it) for obesity. But since moving to Pike County...yikes. 30% obesity would be something to shoot for on this side of the Appalachians...

not surprising. kentucky is full of fat people.

Kentucky as a whole is fat & sedentary from a statistical standpoint, with some of the worst vital health indicators in the US, but Lexington is not. This article is epidemiologically flawed because it was largely based on Lexington hospital data regarding strokes and cardiovascular emergencies. However, most patients from rural Kentucky, especially the eastern half of the state, have poor access to health care in their home counties & wind up in Lexington hospitals when the need arises (as it often does). This has led to an artificial inflation of the data that the authors chose to use in compiling this spurious ranking. This sort of error wouldn't have made it through round one of submission were it peer-reviewed.

dustonian - that's kinda what I was thinking, any other place in eastern KY is so much worse along with most of WV and southern ohio.

Also Bowling Green has to be way ahead of Lexington on the restaurants per capita with nothing else to do.

Men's Health- what more do you need to know, what cologne or underwear you should be over-paying for?

Crank, all I want to know is how Obama got this bad data into the study just to make your state look bad.

Krispy Kreme was an liberal plot to push nationalized health care.