With the continuing talk about the stature of obesity among other health problems, and measures are required to tackle this problem at large, many countries and states are planning accordingly. In a similar move, West Virginia is also thinking that it should look into the matter of obesity problem more keenly, as along with the tobacco use, cancer, heart disease and illegal drug use, obesity is one of the major health problems in the state. However, it is also noticeable here that the state has not adopted a large scale program to tackle obesity, though it has many similar programs to tackle other mentioned health issues. 

You perhaps would be surprised to know that according to the Trust for America’s Health, West Virginia is the third-heaviest state in the nation, trailing only Mississippi and Alabama, which of course clearly indicates that it has not taken the problem of obesity has a major one–it has thought that some preventive measures are good enough to ward it off. However, as clear from the reports of scientists and researchers all over the world, the problem of obesity is the largest health problem that the world faces, and it needs urgent and quick action to take control over it. In light of this information, the state government is taking some steps to change things relating to the issue of obesity.

We can wish that the state of West Virginia would be able to draft some programs that can put some hold on the issue of obesity in the state, and that perhaps the people of the state would also arise to the situation and would stick with the guidelines provided by the health specialists and some other organizations. It would not be wrong to say that prevention is still the best cure of obesity.