If you live in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, West Virginia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Arkansas, odds are good that at least one of every three of your fellow residents is obese.

That’s the word from “F as in fat: How obesity threatens America’s future 2010,” the latest report from the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation.

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