Suffice it to say, not all Mississippians are fat...
Does the First Lady know about this?
Mississippi has a big black.population. are liberals allowed to be critical of black overweight people or is that racist???
At least Mississippi is Number One at something.
End government corruption. Feed the politicians to the Mississippians.
Well maybe we Americans are too fat. But it seems to me someone has been defining obesity down (or is it up?). My husband did one of those health screenings at the gym and he was technically “obese 1.” Let me tell you that he was NOT obese and even the personal trainer was embarrassed by the outcome and dismissed it. Of course I teased him endlessly about it.
Obese-1-kanobi
"Survey respondents self-report their height and weight, which is used to calculate Body Mass Index (BMI)."
Here's a report on how well that works - http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2013/04/people_in_the_south_are_not_so.html
By comparing the BRFSS self-reported weight data with the REGARDS scale-weight data, researchers found that most everyone fudges, or underreports, their weight when asked on a telephone.
Turns out that Southerners fudge less, he said.
The study analyzed the weights in the nine geographic regions used by the U.S. Census Bureau.
It found that the West North Central region, which includes Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska and North and South Dakota, ranked fourth in obesity by the telephone survey results. But when actually weighed in the REGARDS study, people from that region ranked first in the nation for obesity.
In the telephone survey results, the East South Central region, which includes Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky, ranked highest. But when weighed, that southern region ranked fifth.
"It is hard to know exactly what is going on, but my speculation is that people in the South are telling the truth more," Howard said. "Perhaps there is not as much stigma connected to obesity as say someone in California, or in this case, Minnesota."
Looking at the numbers shows the wide discrepancy between what people say on the telephone and the physical evidence of actually getting weighed. When weighed in the REGARDS study, all of the regions' obesity's numbers went up -- it's just that the southern region numbers went up less.
"Everybody underreports their weight but women do it more," Howard said.
Men, on the other hand, do something else that affects the Body Mass Index, which is weight divided by height squared and is used to define obesity.
"They overreport their height, which makes them seem less obese."
Clearly, we need federal intervention.
I am sure there is a conspiracy between both BigFood, Inc and BigAbort, Inc. If they can't control the Black population before birth, they are attempting to poison and disable them as adults.
Racism is everywhere. Don't be a denier!
Good to hear that the folks in Hawaii are keeping the weight down. We wouldn’t want them to sink into the ocean.
Suffice it to say, not all Mississippians are fat...
We’re all a lot fatter than we were 50-70 years ago, but we also live 20-30 years longer.
I think this fat thing is not such a big deal as they want you to believe.
This study should be coupled with the study that found that people that are overweight live longer than those that are “normal” weight or skinny.