Obesity levels are skyrocketing nationwide with the rate of adults living with the disease jumping by nearly 40 percent over the last two decades alone!
now is your chance to talk back on one of the stories of the day. the question for you this morning, is mississippi s anti-bloomberg bill a good idea? lawmakers in mississippi are saying nanny bloomberg do not mess with us. they passed what s known as the anti-bloomberg bill. it prevents mississippi from banning food based on nutritional information. you know, like large sugary sodas. this after a new york judge struck down mayor bloomberg s much ballyhooed soda ban. thirty for a fight. mayor bloomberg says, bring it on. if we are serious about fighting obesity, we have to be honest about what causes it and we have to have the courage to tackle it head on. back to mississippi. according to the trust for america s health, robert wood johnson foundation, mississippi has the highest rate of obesity 35% of adults are obese in the state of mississippi. still, the author of
on. if we re serious about fighting obesity, we have to be honest about what causes it and the courage to tacktel hele it on. according to the trust for america s health and the robert wood johnson foundation, mississippi had the highest rate of obesity in the nation, 35% of adults are obese in mississippi. still, ought authorize of the anti bloomberg bill, a restaurant owner, says consumers, not the government should decide what they can buy. and apparently, most americans earn for high calorie fast food. case in point. the cool ranch doritos loco taco. customers went loco because they couldn t find their new taco at their local store. they vented, you lied to me. i thought we had a better relationship than this. why, taco bell, why? hate to say it, but taco bell fail. seriously, though, d everybody
most obese residents. rick folbaum has the story. where are those, rick? i ll tell you in just a minute. you have to wait to find out until i get to the end of the story. alisyn: gotcha. the number of states showing increases in obesity rates slowed down but not a single state chalked up a decline in obesity rates. in fact the state today with the lowest obesity rate which is colorado. jon s home state. would have had the highest rate in of the 1995. so that gives you a sense of the direction of things. the director of the trust for america s health credits obesity epdem mick to the fact we re eating less nutritious food and more of it and gets less exercise. here is the list. the states with the largest obese populations mississippi at 34.4%. alabama, 33.2 percent. and west virgina with 32.2%. and two states with the least number of obese residents, connecticut and colorado, along with the district of columbia.