PBS - “Need to Know”: Mississippi mayor leads charge against obesity epidemic

Here’s a troubling reality: People in this country are getting fatter.

Obesity rates among adults jumped from 15 percent in 1980 to 34 percent in 2008, based on a national survey. The number of states with obesity rates over 30 percent doubled in just one year, from four to eight –Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee and West Virginia.