For the fifth year in a row, Mississippi is at the top of U.S. obesity rankings, which were recently released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Trust for America's Health. This annual survey uses the Body Mass Index (BMI) standards set by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A person is defined as obese if they have a BMI of 30 or higher, and overweight if their BMI is between 25 and 30.
The study found that in Mississippi, 32.5% of adults are obese (compared to 31.7% in 2008), and 44.4% of Mississippi children ages 10 to 17 are classified as overweight or obese.
The study also found that the percentage of adults classified as obese went up in 23 states.
At the top of the rankings following Mississippi, the states with the highest percentage of obese adults are West Virginia (31.2%), Alabama (31.1%), Tennessee (30.2%), and South Carolina (29.7%).
At the bottom of the rankings, Colorado has the lowest percentage of obese adults (18.9%), followed by Massachusetts (21.2%), Connecticut (21.3%), Rhode Island (21.7%), and Hawaii (21.8%).
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