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According to a new assay appear on Monday by the Trust for America’s Bloom (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), Mississippi has the accomplished amount of blubber at 34.9 percent, while Colorado had the everyman amount at 20.7 percent.

The analysis, which acclimated the accompaniment blubber ante by the U.S. Centers for Ache Control and Prevention (CDC), additionally showed that 26 of the 30 states with the accomplished blubber ante are in the Midwest and South, and 12 states currently accept an developed blubber amount aloft 30 percent.

 “Fattest Accompaniment in America” List – Blubber ante by accompaniment from accomplished to everyman appear by CDC, allotment of the 2011 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey:

1. Mississippi (34.9%);
2. Louisiana (33.4%);
3. West Virginia (32.4%);
4. Alabama (32.0%);
5. Michigan (31.3%);
6. Oklahoma (31.1%);
7. Arkansas (30.9%);
8. (tie) Indiana (30.8%); and South Carolina (30.8%);
10. (tie) Kentucky (30.4%); and Texas (30.4%);
12. Missouri (30.3%);
13. (tie) Kansas (29.6%); and Ohio (29.6%);
15. (tie) Tennessee (29.2%); and Virginia (29.2%);
17. North Carolina (29.1%);
18. Iowa (29.0%);
19. Delaware (28.8%);
20. Pennsylvania (28.6%);
21. Nebraska (28.4%);
22. Maryland (28.3%);
23. South Dakota (28.1%);
24. Georgia (28.0%);
25. (tie) Maine (27.8%); and North Dakota (27.8%);
27. Wisconsin (27.7%);
28. Alaska (27.4%):
29. Illinois (27.1%);
30. Idaho (27.0%);
31. Oregon (26.7%);
32. Florida (26.6%);
33. Washington (26.5%);
34. New Mexico (26.3%);
35. New Hampshire (26.2%);
36. Minnesota (25.7%);
37. (tie) Rhode Island (25.4%); and Vermont (25.4%);
39. Wyoming (25.0%);
40. Arizona (24.7%);
41. Montana (24.6%);
42. (tie) Connecticut (24.5%); Nevada (24.5%); and New York (24.5%);
45. Utah (24.4%);
46. California (23.8%);
47. (tie) District of Columbia (23.7%); and New Jersey (23.7%);
49. Massachusetts (22.7%)
50. Hawaii (21.8%)
51. Colorado (20.7%)

“Obesity has contributed to a beauteous acceleration in abiding ache ante and bloom affliction costs. It is one of the better bloom crises the country has anytime faced,” said Jeffrey Levi, PhD, TFAH controlling director. “The acceptable account is that we accept a growing anatomy of affirmation and approaches that we apperceive can advice abate obesity, advance diet and access concrete action based on authoritative convalescent choices easier for Americans. The bad account is we’re not advance anywhere abreast what we charge to in adjustment to angle the blubber ambit and see the allotment in agreement of bloom and savings.”

Later this summer, RWJF and TFAH will absolution the 2012 copy of F as in Fat, the anniversary abode that analyzes accompaniment blubber ante and action efforts to abode the epidemic, and provides action recommendations.