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Posted: Wednesday, 01 July 2009 9:30AM

Connecticut Among Thinnest States



WASHINGTON (AP)  -- A new report says just over 21 percent of Connecticut adults are obese, the third-lowest rate in the country.

RELATED: Full List of Obesity Rates

Mississippi still has the highest rate of obese adults, 32.5 percent, followed by Alabama and West Virginia at 31 percent, according to the report by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Colorado had the lowest rate of obese adults, about 19 percent, followed by Massachusetts and Connecticut at just over 21 percent.

The report says adult obesity rates increased in 23 states over the past year and didn't decline anywhere.

Health economists once thought that the nation's increasing obesity would save in health care costs because overweight people would die sooner. But more recent research suggests that obese people live just as long but are sicker longer, requiring many costly medical procedures.

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