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According to personal finance website WalletHub, Jackson, Miss., is the fattest city in America. The organization says that Americans spend a collective $316 billion per year in treatments of obesity-related health problems, losing a further $8.6 billion in productivity losses every year for the same reason.

WalletHub released its ranking of the聽2017 Fattest Cities in America聽list on Wednesday. The list was based on analysis of the 100 most populous cities in the United States with regard to various weight-related factors to create the rankings. Jackson scored high on a number of factors, leading it to be ranked as the No. 1 fattest overall. The least fat metro area overall was聽Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, in Washington.

"WalletHub's analysts compared 100 of the most populated US metro areas across 17 key indicators of weight-related problems,鈥� reports the website. "Our data set ranges from share of physically inactive adults to projected obesity rates by 2030 to healthy-food access."

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,聽over a third of US adults 鈥� 36.5 percent 鈥� are obese. But the top 20 fattest cities聽on the WalletHub list were located in the Southern US 鈥� and most of those were located in Southeastern states.聽While WalletHub offered no systemic explanation for the trend, poverty and socioeconomic status often play a role in regional obesity rates. As Mattea Kramer wrote in an editorial for the 海角大神 Science Monitor in 2011:

Another potential explanation for the high rates of obesity in the Southeast is the political makeup of the region, which lean in a more conservative direction. Matthew Kreuter, a professor of public health at Washington University, St. Louis, told the Monitor last December that liberal states tend to be more concerned about public health policy聽than conservative ones.聽

"There are clearly states that have been more innovative in their health policies than others, and there are some states where social norms are more conducive to healthy living," said Dr. Kreuter. "All of these factors play a role in how healthy the people who live in a given place are."

According to WalletHub, diet isn't the only factor at play that affects obesity rates, and many of the fattest cities on the list also had high rates of physical inactivity among adults. McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas, for instance, had the lowest rates of physical activity聽and ranked at No. 4聽in the list of fattest cities overall. The city with the smallest number of physically inactive adults, by contrast, was San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif., which came in at number 92 overall.