[SkyDancer]

Nope. Global warming. If that doesn’t work for you then try climate change.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Well then by all means, let’s crush the South back into poverty.

[thackney]

I couldn’t possibly associated with our desire to deep fry darn near everything...

Even beer sometimes gets deep fried.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

And I bet that sinus issues are directly relating to picking cotton in the south . . . that’s why only blacks suffer from them. Right!!!!!!

Pay them!

[RginTN]

No constant eating of chitlins etc//s

[Organic Panic]

HAHAHAHAHA.

Obviously the writer of this piece has NEVER been south of the Mason Dixon line. She would have a heart attack if she ever went to the Texas state fair and saw the “deep fried” food competition.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Its not a newsflash that pork fat rules in the South. We would fry shoe leather if we could get the breading recipe right. :-)

[MarchonDC09122009]

There is strong evidence that an individual’s current environment and state of well-being can actually influence offspring outcomes through epigenetic changes.
Generational micro-evolution of physical and mental traits.

[GrouchoTex]

LOL
This is too funny.
Oh! Miss Scarlett, we lost the war and now we all come down with the heart palpitations!

Being from Texas, I’d go with:

Fried food (Chicken Fried Steak)

Barbeque (Brisket)

Too damn hot in the summertime to stay outdoors forever, unless you have to. (summer is about 9 months long here)

Tex-Mex food (cheese enchiladas)

[BenLurkin]

[NEMDF]

I thought it was related to Southern cooking, lots of fried foods, biscuits, pie, etc. ?

[GrouchoTex]

One more thing:

If this was truly from the south, the word THE should appear
before any ailments.
My mom and dad used to talk that way.

for instance:

That boy come down with THE aids.

Aunt LuLu got THE cancer.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Oh
My
God

These people are certifiably INSANE!

[M Kehoe]

Grits. It’s the grits, butter and salt that killed all the Southerners. Everyone knows that.

5.56mm

[vetvetdoug]

The logic states that the healthy in shape fighting men were slaughtered and the genetically inferior were left to procreate.

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

it is the tick and its bite that inflames the coronary arteries!

[Ken H]

How about the facts that blacks have a significantly higher death rate from heart attacks than other ethnicities, and blacks make up a much higher percent of the population in the south vs other areas of the country?

_________________________________________________________________

Number of Heart Disease Deaths per 100,000 Population by Race/Ethnicity in the US

White - 168.2, Black - 210.4, Other - 97.3

http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/number-of-heart-disease-deaths-per-100000-population-by-raceethnicity-2/

[Hot Tabasco]

The question is not whether the civil war contributed to the rise in heart disease in southerners but rather how much federal grant monies did Richard Steckel receive to conduct this ridiculous study?

He remind me of this guy who is the epitome of all the federal grant recipients:

Jagadish Shukla

[Original Lurker]

It’s amazing what and who passes for journalism and journalists today.

[njslim]

Pellegra - deficiency of Niacin caused by corn rich diet was
rampant through much of the South early in 20th Cent