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Tennessee currently has the 4th highest rate of adult obesity in the US, at 30.2 percent... and the state has the 5th highest number of overweight young people, aged 10 to 17 years, at 36.5 percent.* The University of Tennessee's Obesity Research Center sponsored a workshop on Building Healthy Communities, focusing on how our built environment is related to these high rates of obesity and how future policy could help bring those levels down. Chrissy Keuper speaks with David Bassett, a professor of Exercise, Sport, and Leisure Studies and the co-director of UT's Obesity Research Center... 