The number of obese American adults is creeping up.
An annual analysis revealed nearly one-third are obese, the highest ever in the 29 years the rate has been tracked.
The 31.3 percent of obese adults this year is up 5 percent from last year when the amount of obese adults was at 29.9 percent, according to America’s Health Ranking annual report.
Obesity leads and contributes to several additional health issues such as cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and cancer, and it can cause a stroke, among other issues.
The 2018 study also revealed that adults with college degrees were less likely to be obese than those without a college education.
While 23.3 percent of the adult population who graduated college are obese, 36.1 percent of American adults who graduated high school but did not go for higher education are obese.
The ranking listed Hawaii as the best-performing state when taking into account low rates of obesity, suicide rate, and childhood poverty, and Louisiana was ranked as the most challenged state this year in these categories.
