Americans are already among the fattest people in the world, and they just keep packing on the pounds. A new report finds that obesity rates have swelled during the last year in 31 states with not one state reporting that its obesity rate shrank. art.obese.gi.jpg Two-thirds of U.S. adults are obese or overweight, according to the Trust for America’s Health. And, for the first time, more than 30 percent of residents in one state — Mississippi — are classified as obese. Nationwide, two-thirds of U.S. adults are obese or overweight, according to the fourth annual report from the Trust for America’s Health, titled ‘F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America.’ The report’s co-author says the government needs to treat this trend as an epidemic that threatens the health of Americans and put in place a national plan to combat obesity. ‘The key recommendation in the report is we need a national strategy,’ said report co-author Jeffrey Levi. He noted that the federal government has created a comprehensive plan to be implemented in the event of an outbreak of pandemic flu. ‘We need something like that in obesity that says this […]