The obesity epidemic is getting worse. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows about 25.6 percent of adults in the U.S. are obese – up nearly two-percent from 2005.
More sombering news – the CDC says no state has yet to meet the national goal to reduce obesity rates to 15 percent or lower by 2010.
The report shows obesity is more prominent in the South, coming in at 27-percent. In the Midwest, it’s 25.3 percent; it’s 23.3 percent in the Northeast, and 22.1 percent in the West.
The fattest states – Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee – are all battling obesity rates of more than 30 percent. Colorado has the lowest rate at 18.7 percent.
