Posted on 01/06/2016 2:07:30 PM PST by rickmichaels
Northerners moving into the South?
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Number of Heart Disease Deaths per 100,000 Population by Race/Ethnicity in the US
White - 168.2, Black - 210.4, Other - 97.3
http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/number-of-heart-disease-deaths-per-100000-population-by-raceethnicity-2/
I haven’t read it since I was in high school, which was thirty years ago! I don’t know why it took me so long to get back to it. It’s so good.
He remind me of this guy who is the epitome of all the federal grant recipients:
Stress is what kills people, imho. Grits are just corn. And margarine will kill you a lot faster than butter. You’ll be thinner without butter or margarine (or mayo), but it won’t usually kill you. The chemical plants on the Gulf coast aren’t helping.
...I thought turkeys could fry.
So I’m not the only one in double digits for rereading GWTW. Do you remember the scene during the war when Scarlett lamented the slim pickings on the Christmas table and looked back on past tables filled with hams, greens swimming in pot liquor, and multiple kinds of cake? Kind of makes me think of my grandmother’s table except add scalloped potatoes, mashed potatoes, and mac and cheese along with three pies. Oh heart disease. Yep lost two uncles that way and they were rail skinny all their lives.
It’s amazing what and who passes for journalism and journalists today.
Pellegra - deficiency of Niacin caused by corn rich diet was
rampant through much of the South early in 20th Cent
I have to correct you on your spelling. I’m a Pennsylvania Yankee, and it is spelled Pierogies. You should have tried a Pastie. They’re a local treat in Eastern Pennsylvania.
Southerners. Black, white, still southerners,
Having been born and raised in the South, I can tell you this is a crock of bullshit. Southerners have excessive heart disease because too many eat crap food, including lots of cheap, poor quality fast food, guzzle soda pop all day, eat foods deep fat fried in partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, drink excessive amounts of hard liquor, smoke excessive amounts of tobacco, and get minimal exercise.
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
Nope, we just like our food deep fried and our drinks sugary.
And my dr, Dr BBQ, says this article is hogwash. His nurse, nurse Blue Bell, agrees.
Some genes can be turned on or off depending on environment. There is a famine gene but I think the US obesity is tied to stress.
“The logic states that the healthy in shape fighting men were slaughtered and the genetically inferior were left to procreate.”
I think that explains a lot: the current disintegration of the UK and Germany, as well as the past downfall of many ancient civilizations, including Rome, Greece, and Egypt, which today seem to be populated from a gene pool equivalent to a stagnant, dried up pond full of dying tadpoles and carp.
And if you think about it, we might be able to trace the ongoing downfall of the U.S. to WWII.
“Twinkie?” Ironic. :) One thing I noticed is that many of my mid-zone Yankee neighbors do not go out ALL winter. East coast stress is another reason.
That is one disease that Hillary and Bill Clinton do not have to worry about catching.
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