Round-up: Magazine features Todd Graves … State’s obesity rate dropping … July Fourth big day for beer sales

Raising an ‘Entrepreneur’: The July issue of Entrepreneur magazine, on stands now, features Raising Cane’s founder Todd Graves, who talks about how he started the chicken tender chain, how Cane’s has grown and his plans to follow another poultry merchant. Here’s the skinny: Louisiana’s obesity rate dropped by 0.6% this year, enough to fall four spots in the ranking of the fattest U.S. states. According to a report by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 28.9% of Louisiana residents are classified as obese, down from the 29.5% last year. Louisiana now ranks as the eighth-fattest state. Red, white and brew: Independence Day is the biggest beer-selling holiday of the year, the Nielsen Company says. Last year, supermarkets sold more than 24 million cases of beer during the holiday, the Beer Institute reports. Overall, beer sales and distribution support 1.9 million jobs and generate $190 billion in revenue for the national economy.