William Atkins
Friday, 18 July 2008 20:13
Science -
Health
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The South has much bigger concerns, being considered the most obese section of the country with 27% of its citizens being obese.
In fact, people of Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi were reported as each having three out of ten adults being obese—30% for each state. These three states were the most obese in the nation.
Alabama has the most obese people at 30.3%, followed closely in second place by Mississippi at 32.0%, and Tennessee in third place at 30.1%.
The Midwest was the second most obese section of the United States with 25.3% of its adult population being obese. At third was the Northeast at 23.3% and in fourth, with the lowest percentage of obese residents, was the West at 22.1%.
The youngest of the U.S. adults had the lowest percentage of obese people in their group, with only 19.1% for both men and women, and those adults 50 to 59 years of age had the highest percentage of obese people with 31.7% of men and 30.2% of women.
The CDC report further stated that non-Hispanic black women had the highest percentage of obesity when it came to race/ethnicity and sex—with 39.0%. In second place, non-Hispanic black men followed at 32.1%.
The report also found that education plays a part in obesity. College educated males had the least obesity percentage, at 22.1%. Those male adults with some college and a high school education followed at 29.5% and 29.1%, respectively.
For women, college graduates had an obesity percentage of 17.9%, while those who had not received a high school education had the highest rate at 32.6%.
Please read page three for medical problems associated with obesity, how to calculate your BMI (body to mass index) and how you can get help with weight control.
