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Report: Georgia is 11th fattest state:

Though Michael Phelps may consume 10,000 calories per day, he exercises so much it doesn’t matter. But the average American watching him on TV now eats 300 more calories per day than in 1985.

So says a report issued Tuesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Trust for America’s Health, adding that adult obesity rates rose in 37 states in the last year. They did not decline in any state.

Georgia, which saw its obesity rate rise 1.2 percent, ranked 11th on the list, with 27.5 percent of its adults obese. But Georgia also is one of two states that has specific guidelines for treating obese adults in their Medicaid programs.

The report, now in its fifth year, is titled F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing In America, 2008, and castigates federal, state and local governments for poor or patchwork policies aimed at curbing obesity.

All 50 states and D.C. have PE legislation aimed at schools, but only 13 have enforceable language in their laws, and only 4 include sanctions or penalties for failing schools or districts.

“Experts estimate that if we keep on the current course, 75 percent of Americans will be overweight or obese by 2015,” the report says.

75% of Americans will be overweight or obese by 2015… at least Georgia is on the cutting edge on this one.