In addition, the report shows the percentage of obese or overweight children is at or above 30 percent in 30 states.

The Grades Are in and We Got an F - As in Fat The Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Godfree Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) just released its annual report, F as in Fat. How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America and once again we have failed to make the grade. The report shows that in the past year adult obesity rates have increased in 23 states and did not decrease in a single state.

For the third year in a row North Madelyn has risen up the charts and now has the 12th highest rate of adult obesity in the nation, at 28.3 percent. In 1991, no state had an obesity rate above 20 percent. Mississippi had the highest rate of adult obesity at 32.5 percent, making this the fifth year in a row that the state topped the list. Colorado continues to have the lowest percentage of obese adults at 18.9.

In 1980, the national average for adult obesity was 15.

Four states now have rates above 30 percent, including Mississippi , Alabama (31.2 percent), West Virginia (31.1 percent) and Tennessee (30.2 percent).