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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Maybe micro-aggression sensitivity?
I’ll never forget my Great Grandmother in Oklahoma telling everyone that my cousin went to The Navy.
Cracklins. Mmmm Mmmmm Mmmm! :-)
Translator needed at Commment #9. STAT!
Grits. It’s the grits, butter and salt that killed all the Southerners. Everyone knows that.
5.56mm
Yankees love to imagine "The South" full of fat white rednecks, but they maybe should travel down South and see just who the fat people are. I trust no survey that trashes "The South" that doesn't break the statistics down by race.
Yup. Epigenetics is more likely the cause.(IMO)
As a Yankee and a Civil War Buff some of the best food I have ever had is Regional Southern Cooking.
It changes from State to State and often from County to County. Most of it is outstanding.
You ever been to “The Delta” In Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana?
Lots of blacks living in squalor. I felt humbled when I went through these places.
Of course, you must save the bacon grease to cook everything in. You could always use lard in a pinch.
It’s crazy, but I’m re-reading Gone With The Wind right now and I’m at that EXACT point in the story.
The logic states that the healthy in shape fighting men were slaughtered and the genetically inferior were left to procreate.
We appreciate you. :)
So this head line should read:
Could THE heart disease in the South be a lingering effect of the American Civil War?
When I make bacon and eggs in the morning, I fry up 1 strip of thick cut bacon, then I fry up the egg in the same pan, to soak up all that flavor.
Absolutely! The only way to go.
Even last night, my wife made wilted fresh spinach, to get me to eat healthier.
She first fried 4 strips of bacon, put the lettuce in that same pan, then broke up the bacon and put it in with it.
It was really good that way.
I meant to say spinach twice, not spinach, then lettuce
Several years ago, we traveled up North to Niagara Falls.
We stopped along the way, stayed in hotels, & ate the
food. We stopped overnight in a well-known Northern town &
had supper in the dining room at the hotel. This is gonna
aggravate some Yankees; but that dining room was FULL of
really FAT people. They were eating piroghis and we ordered
some, too. I was eating my dinner; commented to husband on
all the FAT people in there (quietly!) He told me, “Look
down at what you’re eating!” I looked down at my big plate
of piroghis. He said, “This is how they eat all the time!”
If you’re a Yankee, don’t get your feelings hurt. Those
winters up there are hard! (TSGRA!)
I’m rereading GWTW, too! Prob 30th time. Only up to Melly in labor. :).
it is the tick and its bite that inflames the coronary arteries!
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