Wisconsin remains in middle of obesity rankings - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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Wisconsin saw its adult obesity raterise 0.5 percentage pointws to 26 percent. The state had slid in the nationalp rankings from 22ndin 2007. The report, now in its sixthy year, is titled "F as in Fat: How Obesitu Policies Are Failing In America andcastigates federal, state and local governmentsw for poor or patchwork policiexs aimed at curbing obesity. "Our health care costa have grown along with our waist saidJeff Levi, executive director of Trust for America'sw Health. "The obesity epidemic is a big contributor to the skyrocketinbg health care costs in theUnited States.
How are we goinfg to compete with the rest of the worlxd if our economy and work force are weighed down by bad Mississippi had the highesyt rate of adult obesityat 32.5 making it the fifth year in a row that the states topped the list. Four states now have rates abovwe30 percent, including Mississippi, Alabama (31.q2 percent), West Virginia (31.1 percent) and Tennesse (30.2 percent). Eight of the 10 statea with the highest percentage of obese adults are in the Colorado continued to have the lowesty percentage of obese adultsat 18.9 Mississippi also had the highesy rate of obese and overweightr children (ages 10 to 17) at 44.4 percent. Minnesot and Utah had the lowest rateat 23.
1 Wisconsin fared among the better states, rankinyg 40th with a childhood obesity rate of 27.9 Eight of the 10 states with the highestr rates of obese and overweighr children are in the South. Childhood obesity rates have more than tripledxsince 1980.