WASHINGTON — Mississippi’s still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers. It’s time for the nation’s annual obesity rankings and, outside of fairly lean Colorado, there’s little good news. In 31 states, more than one in four adults are obese, says a new report from the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. And obesity rates among adults rose in 23 states over the past year, and no state experienced a significant decline. ‘The obesity epidemic clearly goes beyond being an individual problem,’ said Jeff Levi, executive director of the Trust, a nonprofit public health group. It’s a national crisis that ‘calls for a national strategy to combat obesity,’ added Robert Wood Johnson vice president Dr. James Marks. ‘The crest of the wave of obesity is still to crash.’ While the nation has long been bracing for a surge in Medicare as the boomers start turning 65, the new report makes clear that fat, not just age, will fuel much of those bills. In every state, the rate of obesity is higher among 55- to 64-year-olds - the oldest boomers […]