All that technology we drag around with us all the time is giving researchers data that provides insight into everything from our travel to fitness. If you have a habit of checking your health and fitness data through a smart watch and app, you are not the only one keeping track. Data from participants, provided by Apple, helped researchers produce the “Apple Heart and Movement Study.”

So how are we all doing? Well, in Ohio, not so great. In West Virginia, even worse. In Ohio, we get less exercise and have higher average resting heart rates than the national average — though we fall in line with other Midwestern states. West Virginia’s numbers are among the worst in the country.

Buckeye State residents — and bear in mind these are the people wearing fitness tracker watches — exercise approximately 31 minutes per day and have an average resting heart rate of 63.8 beats per minute.

West Virginians exercise only about 27 minutes per day and are tied with Mississippi with the nation’s highest resting heart rate at 66.4 beats per minute.

But if we are concerned about our quality of life, comparing won’t do us much good. We’ve got to be determined to do better for ourselves. That means moving more, handling stress better (or being better at avoiding it altogether), eating better and sleeping better.

It is, for the most part, the kind of preventive medicine that is available to anyone, if they put their minds do it; but certainly it is easier if there is policy and community support.