Posted on 01/06/2016 2:07:30 PM PST by rickmichaels
A map of deaths from heart disease reveals the American South ablaze in red; of the 10 states with the highest rate of death from heart disease among white people in 2010, all but two are below the Mason-Dixon line.
To Richard Steckel, an Ohio State University economist, that striking pattern raises a seemingly outlandish, but utterly serious question: Could the heavy toll of heart disease in the American South today have been triggered, in part, by the region's rapid rise out poverty since the 1950s?
In a new paper, Steckel argues that decades of poverty caused by the Civil War shaped people's organs and physiology in a way that left them particularly unsuited for a cushy life. The current health disparities in the South, Steckel says, developed as Southerners encountered more prosperous lifestyle than their bodies were prepared for, including more food and less manual labour.
"Several generations of poverty from the Civil War onwards: You had mothers, grandmothers, great grandmothers, whose offspring - I won't say learned - but received signals, anticipating a lean world," Steckel said. "The Civil War is not over. Intergenerational ripples of the Civil War are still with us in the South."
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Nope. Global warming. If that doesn’t work for you then try climate change.
Well then by all means, let’s crush the South back into poverty.
I couldn’t possibly associated with our desire to deep fry darn near everything...
Even beer sometimes gets deep fried.
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!
No constant eating of chitlins etc//s
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.
Its not a newsflash that pork fat rules in the South. We would fry shoe leather if we could get the breading recipe right. :-)
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.
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)
I thought it was related to Southern cooking, lots of fried foods, biscuits, pie, etc. ?
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.
As God is my witness...LOL
You’ve been to our lovely state fair, I take it? They even deep fry butter. No kidding.
Oh
My
God
These people are certifiably INSANE!
Good mozlem repellent.
Cannot be stressed enough. When my family butchered the hogs we even had cracklins which is a totally different kind of thing than the flash fried pork rinds you can find in a bag in the grocery store. Southerners even learned to fry pork fat!
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