Adults Obesity Rates Increase in 6 States
According to this year’s annual report from The State of Obesity: Better Policies for a Healthier America, a report from the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), adult obesity rates in the United States remain high overall with an increase in six states and not a single decrease in any state in the last year.
Adult obesity rates increased in Alaska, Delaware, Idaho, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Wyoming, with rates of obesity now exceeding 35 percent for the first time in two states and at or above 30 percent in 20 states and are not below 21 percent in any. Mississippi and West Virginia both had the highest adult obesity rate in the United States at 35.1 percent, while Colorado had the lowest at 21.3 percent.
Furthermore, obesity rates higher in south, and among blacks, Latinos and low-income Americans.
If there is any good news in this new data, it would appear that obesity rates are starting to plateau in the US. Also, childhood obesity is starting to decline which may foreshadow a downward trend in the next few years.
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