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Georgia obesity rate remains high
State ranks 19th with 30.5 percent obesity rate
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Three in 10 Georgia adults are obese, a rate that ranks the state 19th in the nation, a new report has found. Georgia’s 30.5 percent obesity rate in 2014 means the state has not seen much change in this category over the past couple of years, said the report from the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, released this week. Most of Georgia’s Southern counterparts had higher adult obesity rates.
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