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title: How fat is your state?
date: 2008-07-18T19:59:49Z
modified: 2008-07-18T19:59:49Z
permalink: "https://elizabethyarnell.com/how-fat-is-your-state/"
type: post
status: publish
excerpt: ""
wpid: 3779
categories:
  - Nutrition in the News
  - Weight Loss
tags:
  - CDC survey
  - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  - Colorado
  - fat rankings
  - obesity
  - state obesity rank
author: Elizabeth
---

19% of the adults in my state are considered “obese”, yet we’re still considered the skinniest state in the nation. No wonder weight loss is such a large and growing industry! If almost 1 in 5 Coloradans are obese, and we’re the skinny state, what does that mean for the rest of the country?

![Fattest States 2008](http://calorielab.com/news/wp-images/post-images/fattest-states-2008-200.jpg)

The [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted the survey](http://www.physorg.com/news135525619.html "CDC survey states obesity") and put Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee at the other end of the scale with more than 30% of adult residents considered obese. Check out your [state’s obesity ranking](http://calorielab.com/news/2008/07/02/fattest-states-2008/ "state's obesity ranking 208")!

Some of the things that pop into my mind when I see numbers like these are:

**1. high fructose corn syrup**

**2. trans-fats**

**3. refined grains**

I wish it was less of a “weight-loss” industry and more of a “get healthy” industry!