We're #3! We're #3!

Alabama is the third most medicated state in America, according to Forbes Magazine!

Retail prescriptions filled per capita: 16.7
Percentage of adults who are obese or overweight: 65.9%
National average: 60.8%
Heart disease death rate per 100,000: 235.5
National average: 190.9
Adults with diabetes: 12.2%
National average: 8.3%

All of the top seven are in The South (then, for some reason Iowa pops up. Iowa??)

16.7 prescriptions PER CAPITA??Is there any wonder why health care costs are out of control???

(NOTE: Thanks to Senior TLC editor Jay for pointing m to Forbes' article!]