Healthiest eating US states revealed by maps
Maps show the U.S. states with the healthiest diets, based on fruit and vegetables, alcohol, food insecurity, and diseases.
Utah is the U.S. state with the healthiest diet, according to a recent report—closely followed by Colorado, Washington, Minnesota and Vermont.
A report by product life cycle management company Trace One gave each state a "Healthy Diet Index" based on nine factors.
These included how many of the state's adults ate fruit on a daily basis, ate vegetables every day, drank much alcohol, drank sugar-sweetened beverages every day, faced food insecurity and lived with diet-related health problems—such as overweight or obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease.
The report used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Agriculture to assess each metric and then calculate each state's overall score.
It found that the Mountain West and Northeast performed well, on average, while the South performed the worst.
Utah was found to have the healthiest eating habits. Utah residents ate plenty of fruit, drank few sugary drinks and had low rates of diet-related health conditions.
Neighboring Colorado was in second place, with the lowest rates of overweight or obesity in the U.S. and high levels of fruit and veg consumption, low levels of diabetes and other chronic health conditions, and low levels of food insecurity.
Washington was in third place, having performed consistently well across most metrics, except for its higher-than-average level of alcohol consumption.
Topping off the top 10 were Minnesota, Vermont, Massachusetts, Idaho, California, Montana and New Hampshire—in that order.
Out of the 10 worst performing states for healthy eating, nine were from the South. The lowest score went to Louisiana, followed by Arkansas and Mississippi.
These states also had the highest rates of food insecurity. Compared to a national average of 12.2 percent, Arkansas was at 18.9 percent, Texas at 16.9 percent and Mississippi and Louisiana were both at 16.2 percent.
Trace One concluded that poorer families were turning to cheaper, calorie-dense food because of a lack of access to affordable, nutritious alternatives.
In contrast, New Hampshire had the lowest levels of food insecurity in the U.S., at 7.4 percent.
Along with lower food insecurity, New England states topped the list for fruit and vegetable intake, with more than 64 percent of adults eating fruit daily and more than 84 percent eating vegetables daily.
In Vermont, 66 percent of adults ate fruit every day. In Maine, 87 percent ate vegetables every day, the highest rate in the country.
Overweight and obesity were found to be most prevalent in Southern and Midwestern states: 73.2 percent in West Virginia, 72.1 percent in Iowa and 72 percent in Louisiana.
In contrast, 59.8 percent of adults in Colorado were overweight or obese and 60.5 percent in Hawaii.
For diabetes, West Virginia also had the highest rates, at 18.2 percent—followed by Mississippi at 17 percent and Louisiana at 16.1 percent.
Those with the lowest rates of diabetes were Utah at 7.8 percent, Colorado at 8.6 percent and Alaska at 8.7 percent.
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