The ten most obese states showed the highest rates of hypertension (35.8%), high cholesterol (28.2%), depression (20.7%), diabetes (14.3%), cancer (7.8%), and heart attacks (5.0%) (Obesity ProCon.org). The ten least obese states showed the highest amount of exercise and healthy eating. A National Cancer Institute (NCI) study was conducted to show people are more likely to die if they are overweight or obese. Their ten-year study of nearly 1.5 million people showed that those who were overweight or obese were much more likely to die young than those who were at a healthy weight (Liebman). This shows that excess weight is a huge problem that greatly affects our health. Michael Thun of the American Cancer Society reported, “In 2003, we estimated that 90,000 cancer deaths could be prevented each year in the United States if men and women could maintain a normal weight.” Bonnie Liebman also points out in her article Weighing the Options that obesity can help increase the chances of many