A national study puts Rutherford County in the top two counties in Tennessee for having an exceptional diet. Grundy County was at the bottom of the list when it comes to factors affecting health and life expectancy, including death rates, access to health care, healthy foods, economic and education factors, diet and smoking rates.

The study, released in April by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, analyzes factors within four categories — health behaviors, clinical care, social and economic factors and physical environment — each of which contain several measures.

Coffee County ranks 48th in the study. Bedford County is 61st, Cannon County 37th and Rutherford County was outstanding at number 2. Williamson was number 1 overall.