Of the 10 states with the highest obesity rates, Mississippi state shows the highest rate of obesity in this group ranking among our nation’s poorest.
- The biggest threat to Mississippians' health today is obesity, which, if unchecked, would bankrupt our healthcare system. Without intervention, what is currently a cascade of harmful health effects will grow into a tsunami of illness, incapacity, and early death.
- The unchecked obesity pandemic is devastating our state. Mississippi is the state with the highest rate of obesity, with one in three adults there being obese.
- But that's only partially true. Obesity puts us at risk for a wide range of chronic illnesses and has a detrimental impact on our health, including diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, renal disease, and neurodegenerative diseases.
- Each year, these illnesses cause the deaths of numerous Mississippians and, at the very least, degrade our quality of life.
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