I’m privileged to know several genuine southerners who wear the redneck label proudly. They come from long-lived lineage. Most of the parents and grandparents are alive and in their nineties. Many relatives have lived past 100. I always get a second helping of whatever they’re having.
Traditional southern food can be unkind to sedentary living. Get out and burn it off, break a sweat as your body was intended. The salt will be sweated out, the fat used as fuel instead of stored. That’s the problem, it’s a diet for an active, hardworking people.
Yes, because anecdotes are proof. Surely, you aren’t that stupid.