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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It's the wrong tone.
I've got a couple of dozen - and I'm a guy...
Nope. It’s not the pork fat or frying or the War or an increase in prosperity. It’s that we eat so much sugar. Fat won’t hurt you—in fact, it’s very good for you!—but sugar kills. And from sweet tea to pecan pie to the cakes in which Southern women justly take so much pride, we consume a lot of sugar. We could get away with it back in the days when most of us were farmers and worked it off, but it doesn’t have good results now that we spend most of our time behind desks.
No it is red meat, salt,sugar, soda, aspertane, saccharine. What not those well lets wait for about ten minutes and another expert will write a paper. paid for by the American citizen
What is bad for you today is good for you tomorrow. Then the reverse. Rinse, repeat.
Yep, it was probably a matter of pride among the planter class to set a spread like that.
Hey, they didn’t mention cornbread! Or am I wrong?
A growing number of the fat people in the south recently moved here from NY,DC,MA,DL,NJ, etc.
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