CNN reports that heavy kids miss more school. A new study observing more than 1,000 4th, 5th, and 6th graders from the Philadelphia school system found 4 main predictors for missing school including RACE AGE SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS GENDER Southerners, poor have highest rates of obesity ! 1 Mississippi (34.4%) 2. Alabama (32.3%) 3. West Virginia (32.2%) 4. Tennessee (31.9%) 5. Louisiana (31.6%) 6. Kentucky (31.5%) 7. Oklahoma (31.4%) 8. South Carolina (30.9%) 9. Arkansas (30.6%) 10. Michigan (30.5%) 11. Missouri (30.3%) 12. Texas (30.1%) 13. Ohio (29.6%) 14. North Carolina (29.4%) 15. Indiana (29.1%) 16. Kansas (29%); 17. (tie) Georgia (28.7%); and South Dakota (28.7%) 19. Pennsylvania (28.5%) 20. Iowa (28.1%) 21. (tie) Delaware (28%); and North Dakota (28%) 23. Illinois (27.7%) 24. Nebraska (27.6%) 25. Wisconsin (27.4%) 26. Maryland (27.1%) 27. Maine (26.5%) 28. Washington (26.4%) 29. Florida (26.1%) 30. (tie) Alaska (25.9%); and Virginia (25.9%) 32. Idaho (25.7%) 33....
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