New Report Shows America Getting Fatter
Continuing from yesterday's blog post on the efforts to combat childhood obesity, looks like the adults are not leading by example. According to a new report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation obesity rates among adults now exceed 25 percent in more than two-thirds of the states. Not a single state had a decline in weight and rates actually climbed in 16 states. It was the Southern states who seem to be dragging down the rest of the country, with Mississippi taking the record again for being the fattest state in the nation. Colorado came out on top as the fittest, and as the only state with an obesity rate under 20 percent.
With all the attention being paid these days to fighting obesity, getting fit, working out, eating healthy, to see the country continue to slide in the wrong direction is extremely disheartening. One has to wonder what it will take to snap the country from it's addiction to fatty foods.
To read more on this report visit: http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/f-is-for-americans-getting-fatter/
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