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A new bill in Mississippi would make it illegal for restaurants to serve obese customers.

It would allow health inspectors to revoke the licence of any restaurant that "repeatedly" feeds extremely overweight people, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Two-thirds of adult Mississippians are overweight and 30% obese, according to the latest federal figures.

The bill is unlikely to become law but shows concern about an issue that costs the state's free medical care system an estimated $220 million each year.

Ted Mayhall, one of the politicians who proposed the bill, said he was hoping to "call attention to the problem".

He said: "No-one's doing anything about it. They just keep on going to the buffets and eating."

But J Justin Wilson, an analyst for the Centre for Consumer Freedom, a restaurant industry lobby group, said: "I've seen a lot of crazy laws but this one takes the cake. Literally."