Southern States Are Least Healthy

MSN.com ^ | 13 November 2002 | Lisa Habib

[SheLion]

Since we have so many seniors, the number of them that die from "smoking related" illnesses skyrockets. LOL!

Hey! I know it! We lived in Florida for three years, and Florida was always called "Denture Heaven," or "Retirement Heaven." Lots of old folks down there. Or even "Snow Birds." The old folks who live in Florida during the winter and go back north in the summer.

I thought you'd like this article. hehe!

[SheLion]

This says it all - every one of these is a government bureaucrat's ticket to loot more pelf from the taxpayers and more pass more restrictions on lifestyle. This survey doesn't rank health, but government meddling and taxpayer plundering.

Makes you wonder who is paying for this garbage, doesn't it?

[hosepipe]

The only thing not taken into account is avg. age of the populace of the state.....DUuuuh!...

[who knows what evil?]

What a Shock! I would have never guessed a region were fat, and grease at the table reign could have health problems. Isn't buttered ice cream a local delicacy?

I'm in east Tennessee, and these loons deep-fry EVERYTHING! Coincidentally; they are always sick as dogs around here.

[from occupied ga]

Makes you wonder who is paying for this garbage, doesn't it

95% probability is that we are paying for it through our taxes via some sort of "government grant" to the group doing the "study"

[who knows what evil?]

I would choose to live to be 60. Quality over Length anyday.

Can't argue with that. I have watched relatives spend the last ten or fifteen years of their lives rotting away in nursing homes. I have asked my wife to put a bullet in my head before that happens. Better to live a full life and die at 60...absolutely agree. (Besides, I wouldn't want to be a financial burden to my fellow taxpapers wheezing along on Medicare the last 40 years of my life.)

[justshutupandtakeit]

I love E. Tenn. My late wife and I would vacation around Gatlinsburg and climb the mountains had a great time. But we cooked our on food except for breakfast.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Looks like all the big states are unhealthy.

[RMDupree]

I thought you'd like this article.

I did. Keep me pinged please!

Signed,

Ruthy in Denture Heaven, waiting for her retirement and looking out for snowbird droppings...

[poopoobutter]

Nonsense. Even by the absurdly restrictive EPA rules there were only 20 days in all of 2001 that exceeded the O3 "standards" in Atlanta, and only 3 days in the next highest region.

The EPA is being sued for not enforcing air quality standards in Atlanta. Most days last summer were either 'code orange' (unhealthy) or 'code yellow' (unhealthy for sensitive groups). There may have been 3 or so 'code red' days and doctors were telling people not to go outside at all.. pretty sad. Air quality in the Atlanta region is some of the worst in the nation. On bad days the skies are purplish-red and so smoggy you can't see the clouds. Nearly everyone in my family suffers from chest pains and breathing problems when the air gets chunky.

Where do you get this BS? Do you live in the smokstack of plant Bowen?

I live about 15 miles south of the city.

[riley1992]

It's all that sweet tea. Is it any wonder they have so many missing teeth?

[poopoobutter]

It's quite obvious that a significant percentage of homosexual men will not or cannot keeps their paws off of teenage boys (or we wouldn't have continual homosexual molestations of boys in the Boy Scouts and in the Catholic Church).

Child molestors should not be allowed to be leaders in the BSA, period. If they molest, they should be prosecuted, period.

I never said that all homosxual men would do so - as you well know. But hey, calling people names like 'hater' and 'bigot' is the sine qua non of the homosexual movement.

I said he(she?) _may_ be a bigot if, but whatever.. most people who are opposed to the homosexual movement are bigots and intolerant.

[from occupied ga]

Child molestors should not be allowed to be leaders in the BSA, period. If they molest, they should be prosecuted, period.

What does this have to do with anything I said?

[from occupied ga]

Most days last summer were either 'code orange' (unhealthy) or 'code yellow' (unhealthy for sensitive groups). There may have been 3 or so 'code red' days and doctors were telling people not to go outside at all.. pretty sad. Air quality in the Atlanta region is some of the worst in the nation. On bad days the skies are purplish-red and so smoggy you can't see the clouds. Nearly everyone in my family suffers from chest pains and breathing problems when the air gets chunky.

This is a load of the first two syllables of your screen name. I live here in Atlanta too, and I have never seen the "skies are purplish-red and so smoggy you can't see the clouds As far as the code yellow crap goes this is just more government junk science without any justification or basis in reality.

Fabricating nonsense to support a false position is a standard liberal/statist tactic, and the EPA is one of the worst offenders in pulling "standards" out of their collective (and collectivist) a$$es. Tell me, do you subscribe to the Urinal/Constipation? If you really have trouble breathing when you hear the EPA's willing accomplices in the media playing chicken little I suggest that you seek medical help for psychosomatic problems.

PS Who's suing the EPA, Earth F!rst, Greenpeace?

[poopoobutter]

Most days last summer were either 'code orange' (unhealthy) or 'code yellow' (unhealthy for sensitive groups). There may have been 3 or so 'code red' days and doctors were telling people not to go outside at all.. pretty sad. Air quality in the Atlanta region is some of the worst in the nation. On bad days the skies are purplish-red and so smoggy you can't see the clouds. Nearly everyone in my family suffers from chest pains and breathing problems when the air gets chunky.

This is a load of the first two syllables of your screen name. I live here in Atlanta too, and I have never seen the "skies are purplish-red and so smoggy you can't see the clouds As far as the code yellow crap goes this is just more government junk science without any justification or basis in reality.

Look up on a smoggy day. Actually, it's medical science.. pollution damages our bodies. On some days it is bad, on some days it's worse.

Fabricating nonsense to support a false position is a standard liberal/statist tactic, and the EPA is one of the worst offenders in pulling "standards" out of their collective (and collectivist) a$$es. Tell me, do you subscribe to the Urinal/Constipation? If you really have trouble breathing when you hear the EPA's willing accomplices in the media playing chicken little I suggest that you seek medical help for psychosomatic problems.

PS Who's suing the EPA, Earth F!rst, Greenpeace?

I believe it's Greenpeace.