United States of obesity: Report reveals Mississippi is the ‘fattest’ state in the nation with staggering rates of high blood pressure, inactivity and diabetes across the South

As a whole, the US is fat, but Mississippi was the most overweight state in the nation in 2018, according to a new report.

At the other end of the spectrum, Utah and Colorado scored the lowest on the obesity scale in WalletHub’s new analysis.

By its three measures – prevalence of obesity and people who are overweight, related health problems and the foods and fitness routines of residents – states in the South consistently ranked as the ones where weight was the biggest problem.

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