Fat Loss Monitor Omron - How Fat Is Your State?
The CDC today released its latest obesity statistics, based on interviews held last year with more than 400,000 adults U.S. who reported their height and weight.
Overall, 26.1% of U.S adults. were obese in 2008, compared to 25.6% in 2007, according to a news version of the CDC.
The results also show that adult obesity is more common in Mississippi and rarier in Colorado, which is the only state in the nation, where less than 20% of adults are obese. If that familiar news, it may be because these states - Mississippi and Colorado - were at the same points in the list last year. And only last week, America's health confidence has launched its own report on the obesity of U.S., which also classified Mississippi as the most obese state.Along with the new obesity statistics, the CDC website shows a series of US maps indicating the percentage of each state of obese adults from 1985 to 2008. The lighter states are blue, and dark and red as Adult obesity increases.
The maps darken and reverse as the years pass, with Colorado becoming the only blue state in the 2007 and 2008 obesity maps.
Here are the percentages of obese adults in the U.S. and Washington, D.C., according to the new CDC data:
