California Business Minute™

Hi, I am Tim Johnson and welcome to the California Business Minute.

The national annual obesity rankings from the Trust for America's Health and
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation were just released

Mississippi had the highest rate of adult obesity, 32.5 percent, for the fifth
year in a row.

Three additional states now have adult obesity rates above 30 percent, including
Alabama, 31.2 percent; West Virginia, 31.1 percent; and Tennessee, 30.2 percent.

Colorado had the lowest rate of obese adults, at 18.9 percent, followed by
Massachusetts, 21.2 percent; and Connecticut, 21.3 percent.

Mississippi also had the highest rate of overweight and obese children, at 44.4
percent. It's followed by Arkansas, 37.5 percent; and Georgia, 37.3 percent.

Following Alabama, Michigan ranks No. 2 with the most obese 55- to 64-year-olds,
36 percent. Colorado has the lowest rate, 21.8 percent.

The South is the fattest region in the nation while the Northeast and West are
slightly slimmer than the rest of the country.

California is ranked in the bottom ten as one of the lowest for adult obesity
at 41 out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.  So who you calling fat?

I am Tim Johnson and this has been the California Business Minute.

For further information see http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2009