F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America
This report, published in August 2008 by Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, found that obesity rates on a national level increased in 37 states in the past year. Rates in New York State are slightly lower than the national average, with New York’s obesity rate falling between 20 and 25%.
More than half of states now have adult obesity rates that exceed 25%. While New York’s obesity rates are lower than most other states, it has high rates of diabetes and is leading most of the nation in physical inactivity. New York State ranks 37thout of all 50 states in rates of obesity, 21st in rates of diabetes, and 12th in physical inactivity.
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