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Why Are Southerners So Fat?
Time ^ | 7/9/2009 | Claire Suddath

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?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: dixie; fatties; food; ghettovalues; illegalaliens; obesity; poverty; soulfood; south
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To: ExpatGator
Ok, well I am a 43 year old in Mississippi, and I am fat.

So there is one....

61 posted on 07/09/2009 9:26:21 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (Mitt Romney is a more subtle version of Arlen Specter with better hair...)
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To: freed0misntfree
When I visited my Dad in Florida I found the heat oppressive and the only physical activity I could participate in was swimming.

The heavy cooking is aided and abetted by air conditioning. Otherwise how could you eat all that fried and gravied food in the hot weather?

62 posted on 07/09/2009 9:26:51 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: F15Eagle
And that was just lunch...

Suppers a comin’...

63 posted on 07/09/2009 9:27:12 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (Mitt Romney is a more subtle version of Arlen Specter with better hair...)
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To: californianmom
It’s hot in Southern California too. And we drive everywhere in air conditioned cars. But body image is everything here.

I live in Southern California, too. We definitely eat a more healthy diet than the classic southern diet, and the heat's different. For one thing, it almost always cools down pretty well at night. I've never suffered through a 90 degree night in California like I did in the Midwest. And there's nothing like the humidity of the south.

64 posted on 07/09/2009 9:27:33 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: freed0misntfree

Just the right degree of subtlety there...;’}


65 posted on 07/09/2009 9:27:39 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: freed0misntfree

The Biggest Loser is casting in Atlanta and Mobile (and new York and San Antonio) this week.


66 posted on 07/09/2009 9:28:28 AM PDT by Tazlo
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To: freed0misntfree
As a fat southerner, I'll tell you what my wife tells people. We southern cooks know how to take a perfectly healthy vegetable, and cook it in ham seasoning, batter and fry it, smother it in gravey, cover it in butter or cheese, and salt it down.

meats: we can fry everything imaginable with a nice thick batter that will hold lots of juice(grease)

we fry veggies, too, green tomatos, squash, okry, eggplant, pickles, mushrooms, and probably much that I cant think of right now, but you get the picture: we know how to cook anything and make it bad for you.

67 posted on 07/09/2009 9:28:49 AM PDT by rightly_dividing (2nd Tim. 2:15, Eph. 2:8,9, 1st Cor. 15:1-4)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Because the last time the Yankees came through, the skinny ones starved.

Quote of the day!

68 posted on 07/09/2009 9:29:55 AM PDT by Tamar1973 (Only dead fish "go with the flow"--Sarah Palin)
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To: rightly_dividing

“Why Are Southerners So Fat?”

Why are Northeasterners wussies?


69 posted on 07/09/2009 9:30:15 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Climate change alarmists are Warm-Mongers. Now that's funny right there. I don't care who you are.)
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To: freed0misntfree

70 posted on 07/09/2009 9:30:35 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: freed0misntfree
From the article : “When you're poor you tend to eat more calorie-dense foods because they're cheaper than fruits and vegetables,”

WOW! that has got to be one of the dumbest statements ever proclaimed to be fact.

This person has obviously never been to a grocery store and seen that fruits and vegetables cost a FRACTION of what it costs to buy a big mack meal at MacDonald's. When you go out to eat, you are basically saying to the world I am wealthy enough to have my own personal chef.

71 posted on 07/09/2009 9:30:50 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: latina4dubya
...mothers were driving their kids to bus stops that were just halfway down the block...

Here in LA it's the same. That Steve Martin comedy movie where the LA guy got in his car to go next door isn't far off. I had a coworker who lived two blocks from work and drove every day. You should've heard her whining if her car was in the shop and she had to walk. She'd usually get someone to drive her to work. (She was in her 20s, and not disabled or obese.)

I also had a friend who lived right across the street from her son's middle school. Yep...they got in her car and she drove him across the street.

72 posted on 07/09/2009 9:31:24 AM PDT by Nea Wood (Silly liberal . . . paychecks are for workers!)
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To: Smokin' Joe
"Because the last time the Yankees came through, the skinny ones starved.

I'm from the south, but I don't care who ya are...that there is funny!

73 posted on 07/09/2009 9:31:45 AM PDT by ~Vor~ (A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.)
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To: Loud Mime
If it ain't fried, it ain't food!

ditto

74 posted on 07/09/2009 9:32:17 AM PDT by rightly_dividing (2nd Tim. 2:15, Eph. 2:8,9, 1st Cor. 15:1-4)
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To: freed0misntfree
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

This is all you need to know about the "study."

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation led the charge in demonizing smokers (to sell their "smoking cessation" drugs), so now they're moving on to the demonization of the next group.

Of course, the definition of "obesity" has been changed to include a larger number of people, which is often lost in the anti-obesity Jihad.

Well, can't say we skinny smokers didn't warn everyone of the inevitable.

75 posted on 07/09/2009 9:32:47 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: freed0misntfree

It’s the biscuits.


76 posted on 07/09/2009 9:32:56 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: myself6
Hell, ya ever been to California?

We probably have the highest percentage of fit people due to the weather but we still have a buttload of fat people. I've noticed when I go out in public that it looks like about one in three people is overweight.

77 posted on 07/09/2009 9:33:19 AM PDT by Lizavetta (Politicians: When they're not lying, they're stealing.)
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To: ejonesie22

It may be “Mitt’s turn in 2012,” said Bob Dole! (not really)


78 posted on 07/09/2009 9:34:41 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: TruthConquers

naw that’s just the cops.


79 posted on 07/09/2009 9:36:05 AM PDT by squibs
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To: freed0misntfree

THIS THREAD NEEDS PICS.

GOTTA DO SOME COMPARISONS BETWEEN THE FAT AND NON-FAT SOUTHERNERS


80 posted on 07/09/2009 9:36:26 AM PDT by mark3681
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