Milwaukee Still Obese as 2008 Hits

PRLog (Press Release) – Feb 14, 2008 – We're not the healthiest bunch here in the big city, according to a recent attempt at ranking the state's counties by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

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The report looks at numerous healthy and unhealthy practices in order to figure out the state's total picture of health. It includes 72 counties and tosses in the City of Milwaukee, as well, in order to gauge the county's suburbs on their own without gritty city residents to skew the results toward the negative.

As for the overall pictures of health, the City of Milwaukee came in second last at No. 71, with 19.1 percent considered in fair to poor condition. Milwaukee County ranked No. 59 with 15.9 percent of the population rated with fair to poor health. In the metro area, the healthy folks can be found in Ozaukee County, where it holds second-place status in the state with 7.9 percent in fair and poor health and Waukesha in fourth place at 8.5 percent.

With No. 1 being the best and No. 72 the least healthiest:

  In terms of obesity, the City of Milwaukee weighs in at the top with 51 percent of us earning obese status. Milwaukee County ranks No. 19 with 22.2 percent tipping the scales in obese-land. Waukesha County, land of Olympic gymnasts, came in No. 4 at 17.5 percent, and Ozaukee carried just a hair less weight at No. 3, with 17.2 percent admitting to having expanded waistlines. The least amount of fat content can be found in Lafayette County -- that desolate place in the southwest -- where just 15.3 percent of the residents have been found to be overweight.

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