This slightly insulting, charty map from GOOD juxtaposes state rankings for allowance of walking, biking, transiting and driving to work with obesity rates.  Click it to zoom-in and analyze the heck out of it.

Not surprisingly, the strongest correlations look to be that walking and biking to work make people thinner, while driving to the office makes people fatter.

Transit, on the other hand, seems to be a slightly more complex animal when it comes to any relation to obesity.  While it can be a good complement to walking and biking states, it can also contribute relatively little to overall health if it’s transit that people drive to and from (check out New Jersey on the map).

Transit that benefits overall health not only requires an actual train or bus and a supporting infrastructure, but also communities conducive to walking or biking to transit stops.

P.S. In the map above, GA ranks 49th in both people who walk or bike to work.