Mississippi tops in obesity study

August 28, 2007
by Thomas H. Maugh II
Los Angeles Times

Mississippi this year became the first state to have more than 30% of its residents classified as obese; 47 states are above 20%. Fifteen years ago, no state was above 15%, according to officials from the Trust for America's Health, a nonprofit group that prepared the report using federal statistics obtained through telephone interviews

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