Mississippi Business Journal » overweight http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 14:24:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Report: Nearly 70% of state’s residents will be obese by 2030 http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/18/report-nearly-70-of-states-residents-will-be-obese-by-2030/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=report-nearly-70-of-states-residents-will-be-obese-by-2030 http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/18/report-nearly-70-of-states-residents-will-be-obese-by-2030/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:06:39 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=62817 NEW YORK — A group campaigning against obesity predicts that by 2030 more than half the people in 39 states will be obese — not merely overweight, but obese. Mississippi is expected to retain its crown as the fattest state in the nation for at least two more decades. The report predicts 67 percent of [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/18/report-nearly-70-of-states-residents-will-be-obese-by-2030/feed/ 3 Distributing farm to table http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/30/distributing-farm-to-table/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=distributing-farm-to-table http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/30/distributing-farm-to-table/#comments Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:00:25 +0000 Amy McCullough http://msbusiness.com/?p=47875 Mississippi’s achievement of “fattest state in the nation” for seven years running is an economic problem. In addition to significant healthcare costs to treat chronic illnesses like Type II diabetes and heart disease, the productivity lost due to poor health defies calculation. A large part of the solution to Mississippi’s overweight woes lies in healthy [...]

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