Jamie Oliver putting U.S. city on a diet

[Food Network Fan]

Jamie Oliver putting U.S. city on a diet

By James Hibberd James Hibberd 54-0700" class="timedate">Mon May 11, 2:41 am ET
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – ABC is teaming with British chef Jamie Oliver and Ryan Seacrest for a new series that gives healthy makeovers to an entire city.
Oliver will travel to the unhealthiest places in America and find ways to use nearby resources to improve local eating habits. The network has ordered six hours of the project from Ryan Seacrest Productions.
The series is loosely inspired on Oliver's acclaimed school lunch project in the U.K., where the chef set about to improve kids' nutrition. His effort to improve one school's offerings, documented in the 2005 series "Jamie's School Dinners," shamed educators into passing new measures to ban certain junk foods.


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[Food Network Fan]

Wonder if this means we will be seeing Jamie Oliver around here soon?

[BerryBaby]

I doubt we will ever see him in this part of the country.

[Pluff Mudder]

Wonder if he'll end up somewhere in Mississippi? That state was rated the worst in the US for the number of overweight people in 2008.

[Food Network Fan]

I am amazed WV wasn't #1, I think they have been at some point in time.

[BerryBaby]

Portland just had a three page (fabulous!) review in the Travel Section of the New York Times on Sunday.

Don't think bad eating habits were mentioned....but a lot of other good stuff was!

[Food Network Fan]

West Virginia only makes the top 5 on lists of bad things.

[Pluff Mudder]

Here is the whole list. Oregon was ranked 30th and the slimmest state was Colorado.

The CalorieLab United States of Obesity Fattest States Ranking 2008

2007 Rank	2008 Rank	State	% Obese 2007	% Obese or Overweight 2007	3-year Obesity Average	% Obesity Change	Ranking Change
1	1	Mississippi	32.6	68.1	31.6	1.0	0
2	2	West Virginia	30.3	68.0	30.6	0.9	0
3	3	Alabama	30.9	66.6	30.1	0.7	0
4	4	Louisiana	30.7	65.2	29.5	1.3	0
5	5	South Carolina	29.0	65.3	29.2	1.3	0
6	6	Tennessee	30.7	67.4	29.0	1.2	0
7	7	Kentucky	28.7	69.1	28.4	1.0	0
9	8	Oklahoma	28.8	65.1	28.1	1.3	1
8		Arkansas	29.3	65.6	28.1	1.1	0
9	10	Michigan	28.2	64.3	27.7	0.9	-1
9	11	Indiana	27.4	63.2	27.5	0.6	-2
14	12	Georgia	28.7	65.0	27.4	1.3	2
12		Missouri	28.2	63.3	27.4	1.1	0
16	14	Alaska	28.2	65.1	27.3	1.5	2
12	15	Texas	28.6	65.8	27.2	0.9	-3
17	16	North Carolina	28.7	64.6	27.1	1.5	1
15	17	Ohio	28.1	63.5	26.9	0.9	-2
18	18	Nebraska	26.5	64.7	26.5	1.1	0
20	19	Iowa	27.7	64.7	26.3	1.4	1
20	20	South Dakota	27.2	65.5	26.0	1.1	0
19	21	North Dakota	27.0	64.9	25.9	0.8	-2
29		Delaware	28.2	65.0	25.9	2.4	8
27	23	Kansas	27.7	63.8	25.8	1.5	4
23	24	Pennsylvania	27.8	62.7	25.7	1.2	-1
24	25	Virginia	26.3	62.9	25.5	1.1	-1
22	26	Wisconsin	25.3	62.3	25.4	0.7	-4
24	27	Illinois	25.6	63.0	25.3	0.9	-3
24	28	Maryland	26.3	62.7	25.2	0.8	-4
30	29	Oregon	26.3	62.0	25.0	1.7	1
28	30	Minnesota	26.0	62.0	24.8	1.1	-2
32	31	Idaho	25.1	63.1	24.6	1.4	1
31	32	Washington	25.9	62.1	24.5	1.2	-1
35	33	Wyoming	24.5	62.2	24.0	1.2	2
32	34	Maine	25.2	62.9	23.7	0.6	-2
37	35	Nevada	24.6	63.0	23.6	1.2	2
37	36	New York	25.5	61.9	23.5	1.1	1
37		New Hampshire	25.1	61.8	23.5	1.2	1
34	38	Florida	24.1	62.1	23.3	0.4	-4
43		Arizona	25.8	62.6	23.3	1.5	5
42	40	New Mexico	25.1	60.8	23.2	1.2	2
36	41	California	23.3	59.0	23.1	0.4	-5
40	42	New Jersey	24.1	62.3	22.9	0.7	-2
40	43	District of Columbia	22.2	55.3	22.1	-0.1	-3
44	44	Utah	22.4	58.0	21.8	0.7	0
45	45	Montana	22.6	61.8	21.7	1.0	0
46	46	Rhode Island	21.7	60.8	21.4	0.9	0
48	47	Vermont	21.9	58.8	21.1	1.1	1
49	48	Massachusetts	21.7	58.9	20.9	1.1	1
47	49	Connecticut	21.7	59.2	20.8	0.7	-2
N.A.	50	Hawaii	21.7	56.8	20.7	N.A.	N.A.
50	51	Colorado	19.3	55.7	18.4	0.8	-1
Rankings were computed by CalorieLab based on a three-year average of state-by-state statistics for adult obesity percentages from the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System database. Obesity is defined as a BMI of 30.0 or over, overweight as a BMI of 25.0 to 29.9. 2004 BMI data was not collected in Hawaii, so a three-year obesity average could not be computed for the 2007 rankings. http://calorielab.com/news/2008/07/0...t-states-2008/