It's that time of year again…for the rankings of the healthiest(and unhealthiest) states in America.
The United Health Foundation's 2014 America's Health Rankingsreviews the status of the nation's health, state by state. For thepast 25 years, the United Health Foundation, along with theAmerican Public Health Association and the Partnership forPrevention, has been crunching data to reveal the nation's healthstrengths and weaknesses.
This year, the good news is that there's been progress on anumber of health habits such as smoking cessation and increasedchild immunization rates. Life expectancy is also the highest it'sever been. But the bad news is that obesity rates continue to climb, whilephysical activity slows down.
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