Americans are getting fatter.  Over the next 20 years, nine states could see their obesity-related health care costs climb more than twenty-percent.

“New Jersey is unfortunately on track to see the biggest increase of obesity related health care costs at 34 percent” said Albert Lang, of Trust For America’s Health and co-author of the report released today.

If states’ obesity rates continue on their current trajectories, the number of new cases of type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and stroke, hypertension and arthritis could increase 10 times between 2010 and 2020—and double again by 2030. Read more