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Which Cities In Michigan Made The Top 100 Overweight In The USA?
Unfortunately we Americans are reportedly some of the most overweight people in the entire world. According to the Center for Disease Control, 40% of American adults are obese. Medicinenet.com defines obese as:
“Well above one s normal weight. A person has traditionally been considered to be obese if they are more than 20% over their ideal weight. That ideal weight must take into account the person s height, age, sex, and build.”
WalletHub.com recently published “2021’s Most Overweight and Obese Cities in the U.S.”. They say that obesity “costs of obesity-related medical treatment to approximately $190.2 billion a year and annual productivity losses due to work absenteeism to around $4.3 billion”.
ALLENDALE — An annual report from Grand Valley State University analyzing health care trends in West Michigan was released Friday, Jan. 8.The report, "Health Check 2021: Analyzing Trends in West Michigan," is the 12th annual report from GVSU compiling data from Kent, Ottawa, Muskegon and Allegan counties, referred to as KOMA in the report.Much of the trend data in this year’s report comes from 2018, with some 2019 data available in certain areas and limited 2020 data used in
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A new report shows Grand Rapids is not becoming one of the nation’s remote work “Zoom towns.”
A recent report from RetailMeNot, “The Best Cities to Work From Home,” rated Grand Rapids-Kentwood as a “tough city to work from home,” with an overall work-from-home score of 72.53 on a 100-point scale.
The report looked at the phenomenon known as “Zoom towns” areas experiencing population booms during the pandemic by attracting well-educated laptop workers with the region’s attractive amenities.
To determine the best locations to work from home, researchers at RetailMeNot ranked cities with populations over 100,000 and states based on several metrics related to community and safety, housing and living costs, and health and weather.