Georgia Has Fat People - A Lot
Tony Potts
07-02-2009
According to a new report on obesity by the Trust for America`s
Health and the Robert Wood Foundation, Georgia is ranked as
the county`s 14th heaviest state in the nation. The report,
`F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America`,
found that 27.9 percent of Georgia adults are obese.
Georgia’s rate was basically unchanged from last year
(27.5 percent), but up from the 2007 rate of 26.1 percent.
Mississippi had the highest rate of adult obesity at 32.5
percent, the fifth year in a row that the state has topped
the list.
Colorado had the lowest obesity rate - 18.9 percent.
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