Louisiana had the highest combined rate of adult obesity and overweight in the United States in 2012, the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation reported.
Just under 70% of the state’s adult population was either overweight or obese, slightly more than Mississippi’s 69.0% rate and Arkansas’ 68.8%, according to "F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2013."
On the other end of the scale, the lowest combined rate of obesity and overweight was in the District of Columbia, where 52.0% of adults had a body mass index of 25-29.9 kg/m2 (overweight) or 30 or more (obese). The next lowest rate was in Colorado, with 55.7%, followed by Hawaii (56.1%), Utah (57.8%), and Massachusetts (58.8%), the report noted.
