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[Best Syndication News] The United States obesity rates are still a problem, with Mississippi having the highest obesity rate and has been at the top of the list for the fifth year in a row. Alabama, West Virginia, and Tennessee also had high rates of obesity, according to the report “F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America 2009”, which was released July 1st, by the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).

Unfortunately, this year's report showed that adult obesity rates increased in 23 states and not one state saw a decrease from last year's report. Children are also suffering more from being overweight as the percentage of obese or overweight children is at or above 30 percent in 30 states.

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Nestle prepackaged cookie dough

[Best Syndication News] The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that they have found E. coli O157:H7 bacterium in a sample that was taken from the prepackaged Nestlé Toll House refrigerated cookie dough that was voluntarily being recalled by the manufacturer on June 19th.

The FDA urges consumers not to eat the contaminated Nestle cookie dough products as there has been several reports from the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) of people getting sick from the product. So far the CDC reports that 69 people have gotten ill from eaten the contaminated cookie dough. Out of these people, 34 of them had to be hospitalized. There were 9 people that suffered a sever complication called hemolytic uremic syndrome. So far there has been no reports of deaths caused by the cookie dough with E. coli.

The FDA said that more testing would be needed to confirm that the E. coli strain that they found is the same that is causing the outbreak.

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