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A new poll from Gallup-Healthways ranks the most and least obese U.S. states in 2014. Hawaii had the lowest obesity rate, with just 19 percent of residents who are obese, while Mississippi had the highest rate, at 35.2 percent.

[Read full story on Gallup's poll on state obesity rates].

The full list is below. States are ranked by their obesity rates in 2014, with the lowest ranked first.

  • Hawaii: 19.0 percent              
  • Colorado: 20.3 percent
  • Montana: 23.5 percent
  • California: 23.9 percent
  • Massachusetts: 24.0 percent
  • Idaho: 24.2 percent
  • South Dakota: 24.6 percent
  • New York: 24.7 percent
  • Minnesota: 24.8 percent
  • Connecticut: 24.9 percent
  • Utah: 25.1 percent
  • Oregon: 25.1 percent
  • Washington: 25.5 percent
  • Maine: 25.9 percent
  • Florida: 26.0 percent
  • New Jersey: 26.2 percent
  • Arizona: 26.3 percent
  • Maryland: 26.6 percent
  • Nevada: 26.8 percent
  • Vermont: 26.8 percent
  • Georgia: 27.1 percent
  • New Hampshire: 27.1 percent
  • Virginia: 27.2 percent
  • Alaska: 27.2 percent
  • Illinois: 27.3 percent
  • Wyoming: 27.4 percent
  • Rhode Island: 27.9 percent
  • New Mexico: 28.0 percent
  • North Carolina: 28.3 percent
  • Tennessee: 28.4 percent
  • Delaware: 28.5 percent
  • North Dakota: 28.6 percent
  • Pennsylvania: 28.6 percent
  • South Carolina: 28.6 percent
  • Nebraska: 28.8 percent
  • Wisconsin: 28.8 percent
  • Kansas: 29.3 percent
  • Texas: 29.7 percent
  • Ohio: 29.9 percent
  • Michigan: 30.8 percent
  • Missouri: 30.9 percent
  • Iowa: 31.1 percent
  • Indiana: 31.4 percent
  • Kentucky: 31.5 percent
  • Alabama: 32.1 percent         
  • Oklahoma: 32.6 percent
  • Arkansas: 33.0 percent
  • Louisiana: 33.2 percent
  • West Virginia: 34.3 percent
  • Mississippi: 35.2 percent

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Rachael is a Live Science contributor, and was a former channel editor and senior writer for Live Science between 2010 and 2022. She has a master's degree in journalism from New York University's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program. She also holds a B.S. in molecular biology and an M.S. in biology from the University of California, San Diego. Her work has appeared in Scienceline, The Washington Post and Scientific American.