Fattest States: NOT Wisconsin

It's kind of funny that last night's rerun of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien was the one that included that lame joke about Obama, Wisconsinites and obesity.

O'BRIEN: Speaking of President Obama... Earlier today, President Obama spoke at a town hall meeting in Green Bay Wisconsin. Half of the Wisconsin crowd had never seen an African-American and the other half had never seen a skinny person.

So often, Wisconsin ends up being the punch line for fat jokes.

That's not fair!

Wisconsin residents are not the fattest in the nation, not even close.

WASHINGTON -- Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers. It's time for the nation's annual obesity rankings and, outside of fairly lean Colorado, there's little good news. In 31 states, more than one in four adults are obese, says a new report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

And obesity rates among adults rose in 23 states over the past year, and no state experienced a significant decline.

"The obesity epidemic clearly goes beyond being an individual problem," said Jeff Levi, executive director of the Trust, a nonprofit public health group.

It's a national crisis that "calls for a national strategy to combat obesity," added Robert Wood Johnson vice president Dr. James Marks. "The crest of the wave of obesity is still to crash."

Here's a state-by-state ranking:

State-by-state list of obesity rates, each state's obesity ranking in the nation and the percentage point change from the previous report, according to the Trust for America's Health:

State Rate Rank Change
Ala. 31.2 2 1.1
Alaska 27.2 18 -0.1
Ariz. 24.8 33 1.5
Ark. 28.6 10 0.5
Calif. 23.6 41 0.5
Colo. 18.9 51 0.4
Conn. 21.3 49 0.5
Del. 27.3 17 1.4
D.C. 22.3 45 0.2
Fla. 24.1 39 0.8
Ga. 27.9 14 0.4
Hawaii 21.8 47 1.1
Idaho 24.8 33 0.2
Ill. 25.9 27 0.6
Ind. 27.4 16 -0.1
Iowa 26.7 22 0.4
Kan. 27.2 18 1.4
Ky. 29.0 7 0.6
La. 28.9 8 -0.6
Maine 24.7 35 1.1
Md. 26.0 25 0.7
Mass. 21.2 50 0.3
Mich. 28.8 9 1.1
Minn. 25.3 31 0.5
Miss. 32.5 1 0.8
Mo. 28.1 13 0.7
Mont. 22.7 43 1
Neb. 26.9 20 0.4
Nev. 25.1 32 1.4
N.H. 24.1 39 0.6
N.J. 23.4 42 0.5
N.M. 24.6 36 1.3
N.Y. 24.5 37 1
N.C. 28.3 12 1.2
N.D. 26.7 22 0.8
Ohio 28.6 10 1.6
Okla. 29.5 6 1.4
Ore. 25.4 28 0.4
Pa. 26.7 22 1
R.I. 21.7 48 0.3
S.C. 29.7 5 0.5
S.D. 26.9 20 0.9
Tenn. 30.2 4 1.3
Texas 27.9 14 0.6
Utah 22.5 44 0.6
Vt. 22.1 46 1
Va. 25.4 28 0.2
Wash. 25.4 28 0.9
W.Va. 31.1 3 0.4
Wis. 26.0 25 0.6
Wyo. 24.3 38 0.4

Here's a map:


Wisconsin is ranked as the 25th fattest state.

25th!

That's not very good, but it's not that bad, relatively speaking.

Comedy writers take note. And everyone else in the country.