{"id":43885,"date":"2011-03-04T14:18:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T19:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=43885"},"modified":"2011-03-04T14:18:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T19:18:37","slug":"mississippi-leads-the-states-with-most-obese-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/mississippi-leads-the-states-with-most-obese-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Leads the States with Most Obese Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Rates of Obese Children by State\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/mississippi-leads-the-states-with-most-obese-children\/ \u200e\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43886\" title=\"obese-children-by-state\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/obese-children-by-state.jpg\" alt=\"Childhood Obesity by state\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a>We know that states in the south lead the nation&#8217;s obesity problem, so it&#8217;s no surprise that Mississippi and Georgia also have the highest rates of obese children. According to date collected by the National Survey of Children&#8217;s Health in 2026, 20 percent of more of children eight U.S. states are obese.<\/p>\n<p>A child is considered obese when he or she is in the 95th percentile of the <strong><a title=\"Understanding Body Mass Index\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/04\/understanding-body-mass-index\/\" target=\"_self\">body mass index<\/a><\/strong>, which uses heights and weights established in the 1960s. Slate created an interactive map that shows the rates of obese children by state.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Mississippi has the most obese children, with a percentage of 21.9. Georgia had a rate of 21.3 percent, Kentucky had 21 percent, Louisiana had 20.7 percent and Texas had 20.4 percent. However, even states with comparatively lower <strong><a title=\"Childhood Obesity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/tag\/childhood-obesity\/\" target=\"_self\">childhood obesity<\/a><\/strong> are almost all in the double digits. Oregon is the exception, with a rate of 9.6.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Which States Have the Most Obese Children?\" href=\"http:\/\/hive.slate.com\/hive\/time-to-trim\/article\/which-states-have-the-most-obese-children\" target=\"_self\">Visit the interactive map on Slate to see how the rest of the states compare. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"One Third of America Babies Are Obese\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/one-third-of-american-babies-are-obese\/\" target=\"_self\">One Third of America Babies Are Obese<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Childhood Obesity Drop Linked to Better School Food\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/childhood-obesity-drop-linked-to-better-school-food\/\" target=\"_self\">Childhood Obesity Drop Linked to Better School Food<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know that states in the south lead the nation&#8217;s obesity problem, so it&#8217;s no surprise that Mississippi and Georgia also have the highest rates of obese children. According to date collected by the National Survey of Children&#8217;s Health in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/mississippi-leads-the-states-with-most-obese-children\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1367],"tags":[314,3819],"class_list":["post-43885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-health","tag-childhood-obesity","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43885"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43896,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43885\/revisions\/43896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}