Posted on 01/06/2016 2:07:30 PM PST by rickmichaels
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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