Illinois’ adults have grown more obese than ever, according to the latest
released today by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation. Last year the report ranked Illinois 28
th
highest in adult obesity with 26.6 percent prevalence, but this year we tipped the scales at 27.7 percent adult obesity and moved up to 23
rd
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.
If you combine Illinois’ overweight adults with its obese adults in the report, the number rises to 63.7 percent. Adult obesity either rose or stayed the same in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Childhood obesity numbers have not been collected nationally since 2007, when Illinois ranked fifth worst.
That’s the bad news. If there is any good news, it’s that we are not on the Top 10 list of adult obesity. Go Illinois!
Those top heavy states, according to the report, are:
Mississippi
Alabama
West Virginia
Tennessee
Louisiana
Kentucky
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Arkansas
Michigan
The lowest levels of adult obesity, according to the report, are found in:
Colorado
Washington D.C.
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Hawaii
Utah
Vermont
Montana
New Jersey
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Rhode Island
As in previous years, the study found that racial and ethnic minorities and those with less education and lower salaries have the highest over all obesity.
The report lays out a number of policy strategies to try to reverse these trends.