Minnesota keeps getting fatter

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Jucy Lucy, hearty eating.

Minnesota has ballooned in the last 16 years, going from a 14.6% obese population in 1995 to 25.3% today, according to a report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Considering Minnesota's love affair with cheese curds and Jucy Lucys, this hardly comes as a surprise. But all that exercise we're famous for does seem to paying off for us in other ways.

The same report ranks Minnesota as one of the slowest-growing states for obesity. We're tied for 44th with Massachusetts. But still, an 11% increase in obesity is nothing to be proud of.

But things could be worse. Mississippi weighs in as the heaviest state in the union, with 34.4% of its citizens qualifying as obese. It is the only state with over 1/3rd of its population qualifying as obese, although Alabama, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Louisiana are near that mark.

Click here for the report and policy recommendations.

Previously

• Twin Cities Among America's Most Active
• Twin Cities Are Fittest in America
• Minneapolis is America's Best Bike City