While a new report says Nebraska moved from 20th to 14th place among the nation’s most obese states, the rankings may not be as bad as they sound. Giridhar Mallya, senior policy officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, says the percentage of Nebraskans who are considered obese grew just slightly over the past two years.

The report says obesity remains an epidemic nationwide and finds the treatment of consequences from obesity costs Americans 150-billion dollars a year.

Mallya says there’s also found some reason for optimism.

Those four states are: Minnesota, Montana, New York and Ohio. The report found the percentage of Nebraskans who are considered obese rose from 30-point-two percent to 31-point-four percent.