Fat and happy? Fat, for sure! We're a mess! Here in the USA, two-thirds of adults and nearly one-third of children are obese or overweight. The obesity epidemic is sending healthcare costs higher and threatening everything from worker productivity to military recruitment.
Mississippi is the fattest state with an adult obesity rate of 34.4 percent. Colorado is the least obese -- with a rate of 19.8 percent -- according to an annual report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The study suggests that over the last two decades, people in the United States have been eating less nutritious food and more of it. At the same time, activity levels have fallen. The report continues to say that adults from racial and ethnic minority groups, as well as those with less education and lower incomes, continue to have the highest overall obesity rates.
It's time to grow up and to take responsibility for the crap we eat. We don't need the government to do it for us...unless we're too fat and lazy to do it for ourselves.
Mississippi is the fattest state with an adult obesity rate of 34.4 percent. Colorado is the least obese -- with a rate of 19.8 percent -- according to an annual report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The study suggests that over the last two decades, people in the United States have been eating less nutritious food and more of it. At the same time, activity levels have fallen. The report continues to say that adults from racial and ethnic minority groups, as well as those with less education and lower incomes, continue to have the highest overall obesity rates.
It's time to grow up and to take responsibility for the crap we eat. We don't need the government to do it for us...unless we're too fat and lazy to do it for ourselves.
