Obesity plagues Kings County

Their love for pork rinds, super-size soft drinks and ice cream isn't helping adult Kings County residents get any leaner, prompting health officials to warn more urgently: eat less and exercise. Even as California as a whole scored a low adult obesity rate in a recently released nationwide obesity study, Kings County and other Valley counties are still wrestling with some of the state's highest adult obesity rates -- ones that could rival those of America's fattest states, such as Mississippi, Alabama and West Virginia.