http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2006/09/12/do-you-live-in-a-fat-or-fit-state.aspx31 U.S. states showed an increase in obesity rates over the previous year. The number of obese adults now exceeds 25 percent in 13 states. Mississippi continued to be the "fattest" state, with 29.5 percent of adults there considered obese. This is anenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)