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Yesterday, we shared a list of most and least obese states — the first in recent memory that Colorado didn’t top from a skinniness standpoint.
A number of our readers had theories about the slippage in the rankings, including this one.
Bret Kantola writes:
It’s only because of all the newbies. A fair measurement would be to only use people that have been here say 3 years or more. If they keep weighing the newbs, then the results will always be skewed as we are also one of the fastest growing states now too.
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