As the holiday weekend looms with the thought of picnics and barbecues, you might not want to hear this. The Trust for America’s Health, along with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, released their annual report on obesity “F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2010” and Ohio is ranked 13th.
You can also find the state-by-state rankings of adult and childhood obesity in the United States.
The seventh annual report focuses on racial, ethnic, regional and income disparities in the nation’s obesity epidemic.
Major trends found in the report: obesity rates in the South remained the highest in the nation.
Ten out of the 11 states with the highest rates of obesity were in the South, with Mississippi weighing in with the highest rates for the seventh year in a row.
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