Health & Fitness

Live in Cobb? You May Be Healthier as a Result

New survey by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin puts Cobb County at No. 7 in Georgia.

Live in Cobb County?

Good choice.

Chances you may live longer, have a better quality of life and practice more healthy behavior than your counterparts in other counties in Georgia.

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That's according to a new survey by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin.

The survey measures counties by dozens of measures from the length of your commute, how much air pollution there is, and how active people are, to obesity rates, teen birthrates, and how many uninsured people there are to death rates, access to exercise opportunities, and how many doctors there are.

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Georgia's healthiest county is Forsyth, while the unhealthiest is Quitman.

You can go here for all the data not just for Cobb County but for all of the counties in our Peach State.

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