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America’s Least Stressed State — Hawaii

Posted: April 23, 2013 at 6:47 am

While people run around New York and America's other major cities frantically seeking success and money, residents of Hawaii barely experience any stress at all. It does not take much ...
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America’s Fattest Cities

Posted: April 12, 2013 at 6:22 am

Obesity may be the most closely followed health care issue in the United States. The rate of obesity has increased dramatically in the past two decades, growing from 13% in ...
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America’s Most Obese Cities

Posted: April 11, 2013 at 6:28 am

America's least obese cities are Boulder; Charlottesville, Va.; Bellingham Wash.; Fort Collins, Colo.; Naples, Fla.; Denver; San Francisco; San Lois Obisco; Madison, Wisc.; and Colorado Springs. Many of these cities ...
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America’s Most Content (and Miserable) Cities

Posted: March 26, 2013 at 6:06 am

According to a recent study, the city with the most content residents in the United States is Lincoln, Neb. The city with the most miserable residents is Charleston, W.Va. The ...
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No Insurance for the Poor

Posted: March 8, 2013 at 6:32 am

One of the goals of the social safety net established over the past 80 years has been to give, in stages, people who cannot afford essentials access to them. No ...
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America’s Fattest States

Posted: March 6, 2013 at 11:09 am

No matter how fat American are, they are fatter in some places than others -- not the waist line, but the location. Gallup has released its report on the states ...
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America’s Happiest (and Most Miserable) States

Posted: February 28, 2013 at 4:10 am

According to a Gallup poll released today, the United States has shown almost no improvement in well-being in the past five years, increasing slightly from 2011 when Americans reported the ...
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Americans Still Astonishingly Fat

Posted: January 23, 2013 at 6:27 am

If current levels of obesity tell anything about current and future health care costs and the overall risks of disease among the American population, then pessimism about them remains justified. ...
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The Unsolved Uninsured Problem

Posted: October 19, 2012 at 6:27 am

The new and remarkably large health care law, based on the vision of President Obama, will phase in quickly over the next several years. At its heart is the belief that ...
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America’s Most (and Least) Livable States

Posted: August 8, 2012 at 6:32 am

Media reports regularly rank the country’s states in terms of their current economic situation, health, jobs and even water quality. But what about their future? That’s what Gallup attempted to ...
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America’s Happiest States

Posted: March 2, 2012 at 5:51 pm

Americans are not any happier than they were last year. In fact, they are slightly more miserable. At least, that’s what the recent Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index shows. The annual index ...
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America’s Most Miserable States

Posted: March 2, 2012 at 6:41 am

Americans are not any happier than they were last year. In fact, they are slightly more miserable. At least, that’s what the recent Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index shows. The annual index measures six ...
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Obesity Drags on the Economy

Posted: October 17, 2011 at 6:20 am

Obese people do not just risk their own health; their health problems cripple the economy. GDP would be given a boost if the number of fat people fell sharply. The ...
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Fewer Americans Can Afford the Basics

Posted: October 15, 2011 at 2:32 pm

Among the large numbers of issues that are said to prove that the recession never ended is whether Americans can afford the “basics” that have been part of what the ...
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The Ten Most Miserable States

Posted: March 17, 2011 at 6:13 am

“Well-being” is an inexplicable state of mind. How well people feel is based on their own internal compasses. Researchers have enough trouble defending the methodology used in testing people’s IQs. ...
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