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Health Survey News Not Good for Kentucky
Nationwide, our bodymass ratio is above "normal".
We’re fat. We don’t get enough exercise. We eat the wrong things. We smoke. We don’t see the doctor enough – and when we do, he tells 6 out of 100 of us that we’ve had a heart attack and have coronary disease. A “lucky few” will find out they have diabetes.
 
That’s the news from the Kentucky Health Department from its 2007 health survey of Kentuckians. 
 
 
Almost a third (30.3 percent) of Kentucky adults reported they did not participate in any physical activities or exercise such as running, golf, gardening or walking for exercise, other than their regular jobs.

Around 70 percent of Kentuckians are overweight or obese.

Kentucky adults reported some of the highest prevalence of chronic diseases, such as diabetes, stroke and heart disease, in the nation.
 
More than 80 percent of Kentuckians reported they did not consume five or more servings of fruits and vegetables a day.

One in 10 adult Kentuckians reported being told by a doctor that they had diabetes.

Approximately 6 % reported they had been told by a doctor that they had coronary heart disease.

6 % reported they had been told by a doctor that they had suffered a heart attack.

3.5 % of Kentuckians reported being told by a doctor that they had suffered a stroke.

28 out of 100 adults reported having smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and now smoke some days or every day.


21.5% of residents of Appalachian counties report “a lack of health care coverage”.

Statewide, almost 16% lack access to health care.
 
Those with high school diplomas and less have higher rates of health problems.

In the misery loves company department, Kentucky is neither the best or the worst when it comes to obesity and overweight adults. The chart below is from 2007 nationwide statistics.
 
State
%
State
%
State
%
State
%
Alabama
30.3
Illinois
24.9
Montana
21.8
Rhode Island
21.4
Alaska
27.5
Indiana
26.8
Nebraska
26.0
South Carolina
28.4
Arizona
25.4
Iowa
26.9
Nevada
24.1
South Dakota
26.2
Arkansas
28.7
Kansas
26.9
New Hampshire
24.4
Tennessee
30.1
California
22.6
Kentucky
27.4
New Jersey
23.5
Texas
28.1
Colorado
18.7
Louisiana
29.8
New Mexico
24.0
Utah
21.8
Connecticut
21.2
Maine
24.8
New York
25.0
Vermont
21.3
Delaware
27.4
Maryland
25.4
North Carolina
28.0
Virginia
24.3
Washington DC
21.8
Massachusetts
21.3
North Dakota
26.5
Washington
25.3
Florida
23.6
Michigan
27.7
Ohio
27.5
West Virginia
29.5
Georgia
28.2
Minnesota
25.6
Oklahoma
28.1
Wisconsin
24.7
Hawaii
21.4
Mississippi
32.0
Oregon
25.5
Wyoming
23.7
Idaho
24.5
Missouri
27.5
Pennsylvania
27.1
 
 
 
Sure, there are more excuses than reasons why Kentuckians and Americans in general are fatter and sicker than we could be. The choices we face seem to be starkly simple. Take better care of ourselves or die younger than we could/should.
 
But for many, especially those of us who live in certain counties or didn’t get to college, the choices are even more difficult. Getting medical treatment without health insurance, getting the right meds to control chronic disease, eating better- where do we start?
 

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