Yahoo! News: Weight Loss News

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• Mississippi's still fattest but Alabama closing in (AP)
• Two-thirds of American adults are too fat: study (Reuters)
• State-by-state list of obesity rates, rankings (AP)
• Obese Get Higher Doses of Radiation for X-Rays (HealthDay)

Mississippi's still fattest but Alabama closing in (AP) Posted: 01 Jul 2009 08:00 AM PDT AP - Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers.

Two-thirds of American adults are too fat: study (Reuters) Posted: 01 Jul 2009 07:51 AM PDT Reuters - Obesity rates continued to climb in the past year with 23 U.S. states reporting adults in their states are fatter now than they were a year ago, two advocacy groups said on Wednesday.

State-by-state list of obesity rates, rankings (AP) Posted: 01 Jul 2009 04:38 AM PDT AP - State-by-state list of obesity rates, rankings

Obese Get Higher Doses of Radiation for X-Rays (HealthDay) Posted: 30 Jun 2009 08:48 PM PDT HealthDay - TUESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- People who are overweight and obese are usually given higher-than-normal doses of radiation in order to obtain usable X-ray images, even though the long-term effects are unknown, new research contends.

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