America’s Fattest States – 2009
Mississippi had the highest rate of adult obesity at 32.5 percent, making it the fifth year in a row that the state topped the list. Colorado continued to have the lowest percentage of obese adults at 18.9 percent.
Mississippi also had the highest rate of obese and overweight children (ages 10 to 17) at 44.4 percent. Minnesota and Utah had the lowest rate at 23.1 percent.
According to this report, Eight of the 10 states with the highest rates of obese and overweight children are in the South. Adult obesity rates now exceed 25 percent in 31 states and exceed 20 percent in 49 states and Washington, D.C. Two-thirds of American adults are either obese or overweight.
Do you have any unused Gift Cards?
Four friends had an idea to collect gift cards and give them to people in need. They went to a gathering and asked 8 people how much money in unused Gift Cards they had in their wallets and walked away with $50 in Gift Cards to help people in need. GiftCardGiver.com was born.
What about you? Do you have any unused GiftCards? (I do!) It is very simple to get involved:
STEP 1: Use as much of your card as you want (or send a full card).
STEP 2: Write how much is left on your card using a permanent marker.
STEP 3: Place the card in an envelope and send it to the guys of GiftCardGiver.com at:
Gift Card Giver
490 East Side Ave SE
Atlanta, GA 30316
They then collect and distribute the cards to appropriate Non-Profit Organizations that can use those cards to help others. This is a grass roots campaign that has created a new form of giving and you are an important piece to the idea coming to life.
Or here’s a cool idea: Throw a party and ‘card’ people at the door
Around the Well by Iron & Wine
You know a band is good when ever their b-sides and leftover tracks are worth the purchase. Around the Well by Iron & Wine ($14) is a double album filled with rarities, one-off singles — like the excellent cover of “Such Great Heights” — and b-sides, some decidedly low-fi, some more polished, but all just as impressive as anything Sam Beam’s ever put on a “real” album.
