I wonder what would happen if we overlaid the CDC obesity map with one constructed from this chart...(but we'd need more information than this provides).

I'm a little disappointed that Ohio is so far down, but also not all that surprised, since there are a great many communities that don't seem to have heard of sidewalks. I have to hop in the car to go to school (~1.1 miles away) even on the days I don't have classes until 8 because it's not safe to walk. On the good side, Cleveland is number 19 on the list. Since it's an older city (at least, the area I lived in) was extremely walkable. Cincinnati and Dayton aren't even on the list.

It's a self-perpetuating problem, though, in newer areas. Everyone becomes car-dependent, for one reason or another, and since everyone is car-dependent, it becomes okay for city/community planners to okay development of shopping/dining areas miles away from residential ones, which reinforces dependence on cars.