Fattest and Thinnest U.S. States
Gallup recently ranked each state by the percentage of population that was classified as obese -- meaning they had a Body Mass Index (BMI) score of 30 or above. West Virginia came in at the heaviest while Colorado proved to be the thinnest state in the nation.
Read on to see how each state ranked.
#1 West Virginia
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#2 Mississippi
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#3 Arkansas
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#4 Louisiana
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#5 Alabama
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#6 Kentucky
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#7 Tennessee
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#8 Ohio
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#9 Oklahoma
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#10 Iowa
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#11 North Carolina
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#12 Texas
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#13 Indiana
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#14 Georgia
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#15 Michigan
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#16 Pennsylvania
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#17 Nebraska
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#18 South Carolina
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#19 North Dakota
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#20 Maine
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#21 Missouri
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#22 Wisconsin
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#23 Maryland
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#24 Alaska
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#25 Delaware
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#26 Kansas
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#27 South Dakota
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#28 Virginia
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#29 Illinois
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#30 Vermont
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#31 Hawaii
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#32 Oregon
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#33 Florida
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#34 New Hampshire
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#35 Nevada
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#36 New York
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#37 Minnesota
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#38 Wyoming
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#39 New Mexico
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#40 Washington
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#41 New Jersey
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#42 Idaho
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#43 Rhode Island
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#44 Arizona
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#45 Utah
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#46 California
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#47 Connecticut
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#48 Montana
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#49 Massachusetts
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#50 Colorado
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To see how your state did in other areas of well-being, visit Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.