Posted on 09/14/2012 7:39:18 PM PDT by La Lydia
You misunderstood the last commenter in your post. He/she was making a distinction between types of rural folk. There are rural townsfolk, and farm folk who don’t live “in town”. Maybe you have to be a ruralite (yes, I just made that one up as an analogue to urbanite) to know that in the first place.
Obesity is certainly on the rise everywhere.
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Coming from rural America (WV), the problem as I see is several fold:
a) Diets there still reflect a outdoor physical labor intense lifestyle. Which is not necessarily true today.
b) Modern advertising particularly TV bombards people with ads regarding stuff to eat, most of it bad. Also again the rural lifestyle has been disrupted by severe unemployment and much of the nature of employment that exists has changed. It is less physical demanding. Alot of rural folk watch a surpising lot of TV, which means a sendatary lifestyle.
Aside: I think there is an unrecognized unemployment tragedy is in rural America. I think this is a huge problem, This has been widely ignored by the MSM, opinion makers, those in politics and other "beautiful people".
C) Food stamps and now EBT can be used to purchase a completely unhealthy diet. This needs to be changed. If rules currently exist to stop this. They are clearly not enforced.
d) Huge huge epidemic of unwed mothers in rural America now Everytime I visit my little home town and talk to people, particularly those who are in education and/or work with young people. Basically the same incentives that crated 70% urbam black single mothers are at work here. WIC and other legislation is now making war on the idea of the rural traditional family. And what I find amazing all who point this out to me don't blame the Rats. Their solution is to shovel more money through those programs. (And all of these people identify themselves as "evangelical Christians"!) The lifestyles and diets of these "single moms" are almost never healthy.
Thank you Doctor; I’ll believe my own eyes rather than studies. I’m sandwiched between two of NJ’s biggest cities, and have been to the farmland in the south of the “Garden State” as well as Pennsylvania.
Maybe you didn’t take the time to read my post and see that I supported the findings of the study.
There used to be a time around here when thread hijacking was considered a no-no.......
Thanks for telling all about the study and may cause us rural readers to evaluate. As to my comment concerning shooting straight, I meant a gun. However, did go to the link and learned about Peyronie’s disease. Don’t know as I needed to know about it but now I do. Think I will take a walk.
I’d take a fat rural citizen over a skinny university professor any day.
That the ticket bot. Don’t bother with the facts just cling to your emotion based hysteria. Just keep squealing little Obama piggy. He likes it when you squeal for him like that.
If anyone’s earned the title of a mindless bot its you. From your slavish adulation of whoever occupies the RNC’s top spot to your inability to condemn any disgraceful GOP big government policy, you and your fellow enablers are the reason this country finds Obama at the helm.
Uh oh, mindless shower of MNJ spittle in 3, 2, 1 ...
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