We're Chunky Chickens

The Washington Post's Wonkblog reports the results of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Trust for America's Health study of obesity rates in the 50 states and DC. The results are not encouraging.

Only seven U.S. states and one district—Vermont, Montana, Utah, California, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Colorado, and the District of Columbia—registered obesity rates below 25 percent. And only Colorado, the least obese state in the country, and Hawaii, the second least, registered obesity rates below 22 percent.

What might be most disconcerting, however, is how quickly and completely the obesity epidemic has overtaken the country. In 1990, not a single U.S. state had an obesity rate above 15 percent, but by 2000, only two, Arizona and Colorado, had obesity rates below 15 percent, and by 2010, not a single state had an obesity rate below 20 percent.

Check out the interactive map at the site. Click on your state and learn its obesity rate.