West and East lie the Health promise land

Today Forbes.com released a list of all fifty states ranked from healthiest to unhealthiest, based on "22 indicators of health, including everything from how many children receive recommended vaccinations, to obesity and smoking rates, to cancer deaths." Healthy is a very vague and broad term, and therefore hard to measure quantitatively, in my opinion, but of course I wanted to know how we stacked up.

About average, it seems: Pennsylvania is 28th. (For family: Ohio is33rd. And for Joel: New York is 25th. Smack dab in the middle.)

Number one was Vermont, while Mississippi held up the rear. Interestingly enough, California only came in at 23rd. Maybe there's more good actors out there than we thought. 

But Colorado, the state I was born in and spent my first 4 years, showed up at 8th. Must be something in that Rocky air.