Posted on 08/26/2019 4:18:54 AM PDT by robowombat
Very old Southern Baptist saying;
“If you ain’t et, you ain’t met!”
Coffee Hour.
Pancake breakfasts...spaghetti night...bake sales...just stop participating in that stuff.
Don’t forget Choir rehearsal!
And section rehearsals at somebody’s house!
I agree, almost as good as swimming in a lake.
Swimming is great exercise, fun, and easy on the joints.
Swim teams can be a little too crazy.
“Kids” around 15 or 16 getting pattern overload injuries is crazy.
When I was young, we played 3 or 4 different sports, not year round insanity.
Okra does best in a hot climate. The hotter and dryer the better. In S. TN it will grow and produce until fall. If you start from seed it won’t even come up until the ground is good and hot. It also doesn’t like too much water at first and our springs are very wet. I have been planting plants and put them out in May and even the plants don’t take off until June when it starts to get really hot and not as rainy. The fact that it enjoys a hot dry climate is why you don’t see it up north much.
Correlation is not Causation.
Though, my experience growing up in the south, those Baptists know how to eat... If its full of carbs and fat, they know how to make it quite well.
Could be a bit of both. I remember reading a book years ago on the 1879 Zulu War. The author described the Zulus as Bantu people who were steatopygic. This means that fat tends to collect around their buttocks and thighs. It is quite possible that some American blacks have inherited those genes which, along with the poor diet, could lead to obesity.
Ah, I’m a western MD boy. Sounds like you might be from around the Lancaster area. (I’d kill for a Seltzer’s double-smoked Lebanon bologna sandwich right about now, but I’m on a diet.) We have a country kitchen with a working wood stove and cast iron on the brickwork, and I have Amish signs and pictures hanging on the walls. It’s amazing what you can find in the antiques malls down here. I miss the farmer’s markets back home, and the Amish and German food. My wife actually container grew okra last year. Man, is it prolific. She was born and raised in Atlanta and here in east Alabama - she knows how to get those nasty little hairs off the pods that like to stick into your skin like fiberglass insulation. There’s a lot of canned Southern food down here in the stores, and one is a seasoned mix of tomatoes, okra, and corn. They season it with garlic, onion, and the like, and we have to heat two cans up as a dinner side, because it’s so good we could eat it alone as a meal.
I would also propose, that due to the accepting nature of most Churches, people with various disabilities and things that would generally socially stigmatize them are more likely to find companionship and friendship at church, so they are more likely to be regular attendees... Morbid obesity would be one of those things that does socially stigmatize.
There are always exceptions to any generalization.
I think it has to do with being a happy content guy.
Not meaningless. Sample size of one is a good start to formulating a hypothesis that bears larger sample sizes.
On the subject of diet check out this.
Dave Feldmen KETO
The late, great Albert Collins (aka “The Master of the Telecaster”) spoke about this topic...
At a party last week, there was some high-class folks
Ev’rything on the table, an’ that ain’t no joke
They had barbecue possum, rattlesnake gravy
Chicken fried skunk, an’ it smelt real crazy
Ev’rything went fine, but one thing made me blue
A cat reached across my plate, for some armadillo stew
Now when you at the table, you act real nice
You say, “pass me that” or “pass me the pie”
But just because you hungry, an’ happen to come in late
Don’t you go reachin’, across MY plate
“Pass some a-that turkey over there, baby!”
“No, don’t give me none of that skunk, I don’t want none a-that”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKIHAvTuDEQ
Actually he sounds like a pretty good guy. At least he is looking to facilitate his work.
OK, I won’t complain about our acre and a quarter. LOL! My wife and I are in our mid/late 50’s. She has MS and still works, but she puts in long hours and is always fatigued, so not much help there. I’m diabetic and hypertensive, but was always able to work around that until I got hit with two nasty staph infections in my lower legs, which wrecked the circulation and just made the neuropathy worse. Now the neuropathy has gotten even worse since last year, and I’ve taken so many falls, cracked so many bones, and torn so many muscles, my doctor wants me to start using a walker around the house, and a cane when I go out for any length of time. To add insult to injury, my liver and spleen enlarged, they don’t know why, my platelet count is chronically low, and I can’t work outside without long pants on without risking another infection. I use the riding mower on most of the yard, and the push mower for the rest. I ended up retaining a disability lawyer and am waiting for a hearing to go out permanently. He couldn’t understand why I didn’t file earlier, because he’s represented people with a lot less permanent issues and gotten the cases settled. I told him it’s because I’m pig-headed and refuse to act my age. LOL
Not meaningless. Sample size of one is a good start to formulating a hypothesis that bears larger sample sizes.
On the subject of diet check out this.
Sorry, I goofed up the link.
In my case, it's the opposite. After a heart attack with Vfib at the tender age of 47, I'm grateful to God for my good health, and am doing whatever I can to live as how He would want me to.
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