http://www.ajc.com/health/obesity-rates-still-rising-1003577.html
So what can be done about this? With medicare and the health care system in general being near bankrupt, this crisis of obesity is going to crush (no pun intended) the system as more people have severe health problems related to obesity.
-In 1995, no state had an obesity rate above 20 percent. Now, all but one does.
-The state that has the lowest obesity rate now — Colorado, with 19.8 percent of adults considered obese — would have had the highest rate in 1995.
-The study, based on 2010 data, says a dozen states top 30 percent obesity, most of them in the South. Mississippi topped the list for the seventh year in a row, with Alabama, West Virginia, Tennessee and Louisiana close behind. Just five years ago, in 2006, Mississippi was the only state above 30 percent.
So what can be done about this? With medicare and the health care system in general being near bankrupt, this crisis of obesity is going to crush (no pun intended) the system as more people have severe health problems related to obesity.
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