Colorado - Obesity in the US

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The number of obese U.S. adults rose in 16 states in the last year, helping to push obesity rates in a dozen states above 30 percent, according to a report released on Thursday.By that measure, Mississippi is the ...

In 2009, no U.S. state met the Healthy People 2010 adult obesity prevalence target of 15 percent, and the number of states with an obesity prevalence 30 increased from zero in 2000 to nine in 2009, according to the U.S. Centers for ...

The CDC today rolled out its most recent stats on obesity, and as you might expect, they're not good.. (The CDC's report says the District of Columbia also squeezes in under that bar. ) And so the obvious question is, what's going ...

While the rate of obesity in young children is still alarming-one in every 7 low-income preschoolers is obese-the prevalence of obesity may be stabilizing. A new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the rate of obesity in ...

Obesity rates still rising in 23 states, and Medicare should brace for influx of fat boomersMississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: "The obesity epidemic clearly goes beyond being an individual ...

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Mississippi most obese state, Colorado least

U.S. Obesity Prevalence Among Adults Increased in 2009

Does Thinner Air Make Coloradans, Well, Thinner?

Good news on childhood obesity?

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