America's collective waistline just expanded again.
The national obesity rate rose to nearly 28% last year, up from about 27% in 2013 and again from the roughly 26% recorded in 2008, according to a new survey released Wednesday by the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.
It's the highest rate that Gallup and Healthways have measured since they started tracking obesity.
Still, a few states stood out.
Mississippi, for example, had the highest obesity rate in the nation — the second year in a row the state has achieved that title — at over 35%. On the opposite end of the scale, Hawaii had the lowest obesity rate at just 19%.
Yes but where are the vast majority of obese people located?
There are roughly more obese people in California ~9.31 than to total population of Mississippi, West Virginia and Louisiana combined. California has more obese people then every individual states population listed as obese.
Reducing the obese states down to their percentages California and New York have more obese people then all the top 10 combined.
So what is the point there are fat people everywhere both those columns are not good numbers.
