Online Hawaii News Now has an article about Hawaii being named the healthiest state in a new study. But close reading finds these two facts:
It seems strange to me that we can be healthiest, yet at the same time have half our adults with diabetes issues, plus half our adults are overweight or obese. How does that translate to health?
Whatever the full criteria that was used shows that makes us "healthiest", it does not seem logical to somehow absorb the disturbing diabetes and weight issues of Hawaii's adult population into a result of the healthiest state. Unless the adults of other states are in really awful health, so in comparison we still rank #1??
State officials estimate that more than half of Hawaii’s population has undiagnosed type 2 diabetes or prediabetes. Other highlights in the report were obesity rates. Although Hawaii has a low obesity rate – 23 percent compared to 30 percent nationally – more than half of Hawaii’s adult population is overweight or obese.
Whatever the full criteria that was used shows that makes us "healthiest", it does not seem logical to somehow absorb the disturbing diabetes and weight issues of Hawaii's adult population into a result of the healthiest state. Unless the adults of other states are in really awful health, so in comparison we still rank #1??
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