D.C. residents are among the nation’s least fat adults, but the rate of childhood obesity in the District ranks in the top 10 nationally, according to a new 15-year study. The “F as in Fat” report, released by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, looked at obesity in D.C. and all 50 states. The District’s adult obesity rate was 21.7 percent — which placed it one spot away from the study’s lowest ranking. But D.C. ranked ninth in childhood obesity at 20.1 percent.
Maryland and Virginia came in at the middle of the pack, ranked 26th and 30th in adult obesity.
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