Thursday, July 7, 2011

Are we getting too heavy?

How heavy is your state?

Percentage of obese adults in all 50 states

•Mississippi: 34.4

•Alabama: 32.3

•West Virginia: 32.2

•Tennessee: 31.9

•Louisiana: 31.6

•Kentucky: 31.5

•Oklahoma: 31.4

•South Carolina: 30.9

•Arkansas: 30.6

•Michigan: 30.5

•Missouri: 30.3

•Texas: 30.1

•Ohio: 29.6

•North Carolina: 29.4

•Indiana: 29.1

•Kansas: 29.0

•Georgia: 28.7

•South Dakota: 28.7

•Pennsylvania: 28.5

•Iowa: 28.1

•Delaware: 28.0

•North Dakota: 28.0

•Illinois: 27.7

•Nebraska: 27.6

•Wisconsin: 27.4

•Maryland: 27.1

•Maine: 26.5

•Washington: 26.4

•Florida: 26.1

•Alaska: 25.9

•Virginia: 25.9

•Idaho: 25.7

•New Hampshire: 25.6

•New Mexico: 25.6

•Arizona: 25.4

•Oregon: 25.4

•Wyoming: 25.4

•Minnesota: 25.3

•Nevada: 25.0

California: 24.8

•New York: 24.7

•Rhode Island: 24.3

•New Jersey: 24.1

•Montana: 23.8

•Vermont: 23.5

•Utah: 23.4

•Hawaii: 23.1

•Massachusetts: 22.3

•Connecticut: 21.8

•District of Columbia: 21.7

Colorado: 19.8

Mississippi is the fattest state in the union with an adult obesity rate of 34.4 percent. Colorado is the least obese -- with a rate of 19.8 percent -- and the only state with an adult obesity rate below 20 percent, according to "F as in Fat," an annual report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

To read more about this article click the link  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43670705/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/?GT1=43001

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