And America just keeps getting fatter. An alarming annual report for Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation states that one fifth of every state in the U.S. (excluding Colorado) is now considered obese.
The country as a whole has become dramatically fatter in the past five years. More than a dozen states today have an obesity rate of more than 30 percent, where as back in 2005 only one state did.
Now, 34.4 percent of adults in Mississippi are obese, making it the fattest state in the U.S. Colorodo currently has the best track record weight-wise with 19.8 percent of the population being obese, which still isn’t anywhere near great. Horrifyingly enough, with those numbers, America’s current “thinnest” state would have been considered the “fattest” back in 1995.
For the seventh year in a row, Mississippi topped the “fattest state list.” This year, right behind Mississippi is Alabama, West Virginia, Tennessee and Louisiana, respectively. More often than not, Southern states tend to weigh in the heaviest. Mary Currier, Mississippi’s health officer, claims that the state struggles to drop weight as a whole because so many areas are poor and rural. She also states that changing the South’s fried food culture is not an easy feat.
