A recent study found that people living in Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Vermont were the healthiest in the nation, while people in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Louisiana were the least healthy.
While every state has gotten healthier since 1990 when the survey started, the gains have been eroded by increasing levels of obesity, poverty, and a rise in the number of uninsured people.
I think the saddest statistic is that we experienced another rise in infant mortality rates, and are now only 28th in our level of infant mortality. A baby born in the U.S. has twice the chance of dying as one born in Japan or Sweden.