Posted on 07/09/2009 9:07:36 AM PDT by freed0misntfree
People from Mississippi are fat. With an adult obesity rate of 33%, Mississippi gobbled its way to the "chubbiest state" crown for the fifth year in a row, according to a new joint report by Trust For America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Alabama, West Virginia, and Tennessee aren't far behind, with obesity rates over 30%. In fact, eight out of the 10 fattest states are in the South. The region famous for its biscuits, barbecue and pecan pies has been struggling with its weight for years — but then again, so has the rest of the country. Wisconsin loves cheese, New Yorkers scarf pizza, and New Englanders have been known to enjoy a crab cake or two. So why is the South so portly?
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
In the south, macaroni and cheese is dubbed a “vegetable.” OK with me.
“Like I said, let them bash the South, let them stay up in the snow.”
I read one of Jeff Foxworthy’s books and he wrote in there that the reason Southern rednecks behave the way they do is because the South is a great place to live and they want to discourage Northerners from moving down there.
Although I’m pretty sure he didn’t explain it in one very long sentence, as I did. :)
I wonder, with plentiful food, has anyone ever investigated the possibility that southern humans add fat as a buffer to the heat and humidity? What if people in subsaharan Africa had plentiful food, would they also become fat as a buffer?
Why are Southerners so fat? So snarky, lanky Northerners whose mouths write checks to the world their @ss can’t cash have someone to run and hide behind.
My hub, born and bred in Mississippi, agrees with this take.
Yes,I live in wisconsin and I am fat! It’s caused by the comfort eating I do because of the deep depression I suffer as a result of all the liberals in this state!!!!
OK, don’t get me wrong, I love the South, especially if you consider Florida part of the South, and Southerners, but sometimes I think the “Southern tradition” thing is way overblown.
A girl that moved here from the South talked about making “sweet tea” and how her mother taught her the secret of making good sweet tea
The secret? Let me guess, I’m betting that it has something to do with putting sugar in it.
Excuse me but what does this sentence say and I believe the capital I on your keyboard is broken. As for Documentaries, they are all true of course because everyone knows the media doesn't lie about anything and never fakes documentaries. BTW, I am not in a Southern state. I would really like to ask the times what frickin' business is it of theirs how fat anyone is?
I believe it is related to what is in the food. For example, instead of sugar, most companies now use high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). That is a fundamental change and many suspect it is a major culprit. This guy blogs on it here.
He also has an interesting article on government corn subsidies, which gets at the heart of why companies made the switch from cane sugar to HFCS.
I mean it when I say that if you haven't delved into the the whole HFCS issue, you will be shocked when you do.
DEEP FRIED OKRA
You sound just like my hub! (Except he's sitting down to Simmons catfish and unsweet tea ;) ). Sometimes I'm required to turn the channel, the voices on some television program have him *nails-on-a-chalkboard* crazy!
Case in point: John Kerry
“Why are Northerers so rude?”
Population density?
When he was sixteen, his father died, leaving him an estate of $2,000,000. At the time Johnson’s father died, he was attending Rutgers Prep. Johnson dropped-out of Rutgers Prep after only a few months and starting working full-time at J&J.
However, while in Washington Johnson made many adversaries and was forced to resign, in 1943. Johnson told newspapers that he was too ill to continue.
His son, Robert Wood Johnson III, was the president of Johnson & Johnson from 1963 to 1965. In 1964 there was a falling out, and Robert Wood Johnson II, as chairman, fired his son.
Robert Wood Johnson II died on January 30, 1968, and left the bulk of his $400,000,000 estate to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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Robert Wood Johnson II built a small, but innovative, family firm of Johnson & Johnson into the world’s largest health products maker.
Over the course of his 74 years,Johnson would also be a politician, writer, sailor, pilot, promoter of alcohol abstinence, activist and philanthropist.
Currently, the Foundation is led by Dr.Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, who was selected to serve as president and CEO in December 2002. Prior to Lavizzo-Mourey’s tenure, Dr. Steve Schroeder served as the Foundation’s president from 1990 - 2002. Under the leadership of Dr. Steve Schroeder, the foundation played a major role in curbing tobacco use in the US, spending $446 million from 1991 to 2003 toward that goal, and it plans to use those experiences to shape its attack on childhood obesity.
Childhood Obesity: Reversing the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015 by improving access to affordable healthy foods and increasing opportunities for physical activity in schools and communities across the United States.
In April 2007, the foundation committed $500 million to reversing the childhood obesity epidemic. The President and CEO is personally committed to reversing this epidemic by 2015
Health Insurance Coverage: Ensuring that everyone in America has stable, affordable health care coverage through the development of policies and programs to expand health coverage and maximize enrollment in existing coverage programs.
Public Health: Strengthening the practice of public health and the implementation of policies to ensure the system can fulfill its vital role in protecting the safety and health of all Americans.
Vulnerable Populations: Supporting promising new ideas that address health and health care problems that intersect with social factors—housing, poverty and inadequate education—and affect society’s most vulnerable people, including low-income children and their families, frail older adults, adults with disabilities, the homeless, those with HIV/AIDS, and those with severe mental illness.
Criticism
Despite the Foundation’s statements to the contrary, some critics[7][8] have labeled RWJF as anti-alcohol or neo-prohibitionist. This is likely due to their stance on several alcohol-related issues (e.g. alcohol restriction laws, legal drinking age, alcohol taxation, roadblocks, etc.), their funding of certain alcohol-related studies, and the fact that they are a significant funding source for groups such as MADD (itself often accused of neo-probibitionism lately) and many others who share their views on alcohol issues[9] However, the American Beverage Institute and DISCUS (some of the biggest critics) can both be said to have vested interests as well.
Yeah, we have been a little pissed a Jeff About that...
Trade secret and all.
Seems such a waste of time on his part, after all the effort to support us with his “you know you’re a redneck” work...
Barney Frank.
Yes, it's the *when* the sugar is introduced, not just that the tea has sugar in it. It has to be put into the tea when it's still hot, so the sugar dissolves. You don't add sugar to cold, unsweet tea, that won't substitute for good sweet tea.
I make sugar-syrup (equal parts water and sugar, bring to boil to dissolve sugar, cool) for those occasions when having two separate pitchers is not convenient. Sugar-syrup will dissolve into cold tea, sweeten it fine for those who don't want to use the sugar-substitutes.
Higher percentages of blacks.
Yup, that yankee caterwallin’ can mess up a good meal...
I think it is time for your nap.
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