Data Shows New Jersey is in the Top 10 of Healthy States
As a country, it’s no secret we’re not doing well when it comes to living a healthy lifestyle. When it comes to healthy states, New Jersey seems to be on the same path. We love our food, and we love our restaurants and diners in our state. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says six in ten Americans have at least one chronic disease, and one in ten have two or more. A chronic disease is defined as one that lasts at least a year and requires daily medicine. It’s also an ailment that can negatively impact your life.
Some states are healthier than others. However, according to a study by Forbes Advisor, New Jersey landed toward the top of the list of healthy states. Hawaii has the healthiest, but New Jersey came in at number six. That’s sixth out of fifty of healthy states or forty-fourth on the list of unhealthiest.
With New Jersey at six, they determined that our unhealthy score is nineteen point two three out of a hundred. State ranking was based on twenty-one metrics including disease risk factors. With that in mind, about one hundred sixty Jerseyans per one hundred thousand residents die from heart disease. Nearly nine of us have diabetes.
The experts didn’t only focus on disease stats. They also analyzed information concerning the rates of substance abuse, residents’ lifestyle habits, and their health outlook.
It is interesting to learn that five of the top ten healthiest states were far away from the fiftieth state. New Jersey is one of them along with Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York.
It’s also noted that eight of the ten least healthy states were in the South. They are Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Ohio, Tennessee, and West Virginia. The Mountain state of West Virginia is the unhealthiest in the Union.
The Journal of the American College of Cardiology says chronic disease in this country is only going to get worse. The rate of Americans with diabetes will jump close to forty percent hypertension by more than twenty-seven percent and obesity rates will grow to more than eighteen percent.
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