Why Are Southerners So Fat?

Time ^ | 7/9/2009 | Claire Suddath

[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?

[californianmom]

It’s hot in Southern California too. And we drive everywhere in air conditioned cars. But body image is everything here. I suspect that when your neighbors are all fat, there’s just less peer pressure to stay thin, so the percentage of fat people keeps going up.

[Sig Sauer P220]

Why are libs from the northeast so stupid?

[Nonstatist]

..the South doesn't have many bus stops. Public transportation is paltry, and for most people the best way to get around is by car. .. States like Mississippi and Tennessee also have a surprising lack of sidewalks, discouraging even the most eager pedestrians..— and people who want to bike or jog find themselves uncomfortably close to traffic.

There you go . The problem is not enough income tax distribution to fund infrastructure for the poor rural States! I knew there was a public revenue answer to this sticky problem!! (coinciding with the second stimulus bill--what a coincidence!)

[I see my hands]

On many drug related threads there are those who talk about the imposition drug abuse has on society. I see much more disregard for others and disruption of what should be efficient life by the Hefties.

Compare them to drunks with permission to act out where ever they go. No one is a larger recipient of political correctness than are these waddling cruise ships. Get the heck out of everyone else’s way!

[RichInOC]

Because they bread, fry and eat researchers who ask them why they’re so fat.

[Sioux-san]

Bingo!

[TexasFreeper2009]

Did they adjust the results to account for differences between races when it come to being prone to obesity?

[ejonesie22]

Let ‘em, same with the the FR south haters.

Spread the word!

The South sucks!

Stay where you are, you're better off!

I hope that works, got enough damn yankees down here already, and more coming all the time. They just ain't that smart, they tell everyone the South is a terrible place to live as they load up the Volvo all but trippin’ over themselves moving down here....

[Julia H.]

Has this author never BEEN to Ohio?

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

We invented TEX MEX that Northerners have recently discovered.
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Nothing to be proud of Tex Mex is not good. Now Sweet Tea, fried chicken, pecan pies......yummy. : )

[myself6]

Some of the most friendly people I ever had the pleasure of living around were in Mobile Alabama.

[r9etb]

Because it’s too damned hot to go outside and exercise. Simple as that.

[rollo tomasi]

Why do northerners pansies elect other pansies to run their lives for them?

Can't wipe your behind without the help from some government authority figure?

Too many over-"educated”, not able to think for themselves, trust funders, pansies who can only get journalism jobs through family connections, always leaves one in a confused drug induced haze, probably like this author.

Not saying one should overeat but definitely saying pompous, hypocritical, journalist/self-appointed elitists should not be throwing stones in glass houses.

[Steamburg]

It is so simple and completely overlooked. It’s because people in the South aren’t neurotic, guilt ridden, rude, whiny. douche bags. And they subscribe to Fried not Boiled.

[a real Sheila]

Northerners are thinner cause they have to haul their HUGE egos and attitudes with them everywhere!
New Yorkers especially.
I’ve never met anyone from NYC who didn’t have an attitude of “cultural superiority.”

[wbill]

All together now: "HOW FAT ARE WE?"

We're so fat, that we have our own area code.

We're so fat that we sweat Crisco.

We're so fat that when we fall over, people wait for aftershocks.

We're fat. Fat and Ugly. We're so ugly that when we were born the doctor slapped our mother. We're so ugly that....

[cranked]

"I hope that works, got enough damn yankees down here already, and more coming all the time. They just ain't that smart, they tell everyone the South is a terrible place to live as they load up the Volvo all but trippin’ over themselves moving down here...." Agreed. More and more of them are cropping up left and right in my part of the Southern Virginia Tidewater Area 'neighborhood'.

[ejonesie22]

Now that's a damned lie!

We grill some of them researchers too...

And don't get me started on the many ways ‘dem folks in the bayou serve ‘em up...

[a real Sheila]

huh?

[The Sons of Liberty]

Well, it's not politically correct, so you NEVER hear it anymore but "Dixie" explains it:

"There's buckwheat cakes and Indian batter,
makes you fat, or little fatter ...
look away, look away, look away Dixieland!"